China's agricultural trade expanded rapidly following economic reforms and the open-door policy adopted in the late 1970s. The composition of agricultural trade with China follows its labor-abundant and land-scarce resource endowment with imports of bulk and processed intermediates and exports...

Vom 25. bis 28. September dieses Jahres findet die Jahrestagung von Weltbank und liternationalem Währungsfonds, IWF, in Prag statt. Auf der Agenda dieser Tagung wird voraussichtlich auch die Diskussion einer Neuorientierung des IWF stehen. Wie kaum eine andere internationale Organisation ist...

The post-World War II world trading system is now more than fifty years old, and not surprisingly, it has evolved through a number of different stages of development and survived a series of perils. Recently, however, the perils seem even greater than before. The failure of the Seattle...