WTO-based concern. …

impact follows from erosion of EU preferences. This suggests the erosion problem is primarily bilateral rather than a WTO …

Preferences (GSP) provided unilaterally by developed and some emerging economies. A review of the decisions from the Eight … Ministerial Conference and the links to the Istanbul Programme of Action is made along with a review of a revised GSP schemes by …

The on-going negotiations on non-agricultural market access (NAMA) in the World Trade Organization (WTO) are expected … countries will result in a reduction in the preferential margins currently enjoyed by LDCs under the various GSP schemes … given her current trade pattern and the preferential treatment she currently enjoys as a beneficiary of the EU and US GSP …

- erature to estimate the role of GATT/WTO and the Generalized System of Preferences for trade. We use a gravity model and apply … analysis we find a significant positive effect of WTO membership on bilateral trade. Referring to other multi- lateral …, rather the opposite. This might be due to the opportunistic behavior of industrial countries that grant GSP schemes as long …

The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) was established to promote the exports of low-income countries to … complex and the e¤ects of GSP have been found to be controversial. While previous studies solely analyzed preferential … the overall and dynamic e¤ects common to the various GSP schemes in order to provide generalized recommendations for …

Plurilateral agreements in the WTO context allow sub-sets of countries to agree to commitments in specific policy areas … that only apply to signatories, and thus allow for 'variable geometry' in the WTO. Plurilateral agreements share a number … distinguishes them from the general, nondiscriminatory agreements that are negotiated among—and apply to—all WTO Members. Current …

This chapter studies interlinkages and interaction between the reciprocal trade liberalization through the WTO and … dataset is done to determine the impact of WTO and PTA membership on the developed and developing countries, as well as LDCs …

The Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations has been ongoing for 10 years, and given political … arguably requires greater recognition of the value of trade policy disciplines that will be part of any agreement. The WTO is … leveraging existing WTO bodies to enhance the transparency of nontariff measures, address regulatory concerns that impede …