The deadlock in the WTO Doha Round has been accompanied by an increased focus on the negotiation of preferential trade … the WTO as opposed to PTAs …

. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …

At the recent World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar, WTO members called for the launch of … negotiations on disciplines relating to competition based on explicit consensus on modalities to be agreed at the fifth WTO … ministerial meeting in 2003. WTO discussions since 1997 have revealed little support for ambitious multilateral action. Proponents …

multilateralized. Its disciplines apply only to World Trade Organization (WTO) members that have signed it. Public procurement … which the Agreement might be expanded to cover all WTO members. In the process, the GPA could be improved economically by …

. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …

. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …

economic welfare of WTO members; and (iii) their effect on the functioning and integrity of the existing trading system …

security of market access. Its conclusion would strengthen, symbolically and substantively, the WTO’s valuable role in …

place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …

This paper summarizes the major arguments and proposals to reform the modus operandi of the World Trade Organization … and external transparency of World Trade Organization processes. Some proposals for structural reform ignore incentive … constraints and the fact that the World Trade Organization is an incomplete contract that must be self-enforcing. Others-such as …