With the creation of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, the pyramidal design of the international trading … economic policies of WTO Member States at the bottom of the pyramid. This article questions whether this vertical structure is … that the WTO is losing its centrality in the international trading system. The thesis of this article is that the …

competitiveness is increasingly shaped by a country's ability to attract and retain a skilled workforce, competition among countries …

within the GATS, services sectors still exhibit limitations that restrict equal competition for foreign competitors …, sometimes resulting in non-compliance with the World Trade Organization (WTO) doctrines of market access and national treatment …. Different WTO Members set different strategies for services liberalization, reflected in their GATS or other negotiating …

In the context of a current global economic crisis and an unfinished World Trade Organization (WTO) Doha Round … impact on the international trading system, the debate about regionalism and multilateralism, and the policy of the WTO …