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At the recent World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar, WTO members called for the launch of …
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This paper assesses existing multilateral rules on government procurement from a developing country perspective. It summarizes the economics of discriminatory procurement and investigates to what extent data on procurement reported by members of the WTO Government Procurement Agreement (GPA)...
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emerged in the post, Second World War era, largely in reaction to the folly of protectionism and managed trade that …
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The trade and welfare impacts of multilateral liberalization on individual countries and groups within countries depend on many factors-including the depth of liberalization by trading partners, the extent of countries' own reforms, the responsiveness of investors to changes in relative prices...
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A significant body of research has sought to examine claims that developing countries are under-represented as complainants, and/or over-represented as respondents in the WTO dispute settlement system. Most of this literature has focused on their propensity to participate, the idea being that...
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Since 2005, donors and development agencies have increased the overall value of aid for trade and put in place several mechanisms to channel such aid and to ensure that it targets national priorities. This paper reviews recent trends in the allocation of aid for trade and analyses of its...
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World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for … making national treatment the objective of World Trade Organization services negotiations, thereby clarifying the scope of … World Trade Organization commitments for regulators. Moreover, liberalization by smaller and poorer members of the World …
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Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate into worsening export performance for the least developed countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. The authors examine the actual scope for preference...
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