Preface -- Raymond Vernon / Roger B. Porter -- PART ONE, Introduction and Overview. 1. Efficiency, equity, and legitimacy : the global trading system in the twenty-first century / Roger B. Porter -- 2. Dark clouds over Geneva? : the troubled prospects of the multilateral trading system / Pierre...

Since the early 1990s, many countries in sub-Saharan Africa have made significant progress in opening their economies to external competition through trade and currency liberalization. This paper analyzes trade and policy developments for 22 countries in eastern and southern Africa, looks at...

The World Trade Organization has been until recently an effective framework for cooperation because it has continually adapted to changing economic realities. The current Doha Agenda is an aberration because it does not reflect one of the largest shifts in the international economic and trading...

Mattoo and Subramanian argue that india should engage more actively in the multilateral trading system, to help facilitate and consolidate domestic reform and to gain access to export markets for India's goods and services