At the Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) held in Bali on 3–6 December 2013, the … ministers agreed upon the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation (ATF). This paper assesses the level of ambition of the ATF from …

for Trade Initiative and its capacity to support the post-Bali WTO Agenda will depend on its capacity to address these … concerns. To do so, a change in approach is needed. In its Aid for Trade Work Programme 2012-13, the WTO answered the …

date. Indeed, sustainable development is recognized as an objective in the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade … Organization (WTO). With the aim of stimulating discussion, this paper asks the question of how trade, and WTO rules, can … contribute to the post-2015 development agenda? In reply, the author offers some thoughts on 10 contributions that trade, and WTO …

The Aid for Trade (AfT) initiative has gained much popularity since its launch at the World Trade Organization … developing countries into the world economy. This paper contributes to the debate by analyzing AfT in a political economy context …

policy & regulations; economic infrastructure; building productive capacity; and trade-related adjustment. The WTO … WTO has been focusing on women with the aim of building their capacity to trade and using trade as a tool for their …

In principle, there is consensus among World Trade organisation members (WTO) on the need to establish Special … import surges, maintains linkages of domestic producers to long-run world market dynamics, and allows the computation of the …

they accede to the WTO, the impact of current debates about WTO reform on vulnerable economies, and measures to make it … easier for vulnerable economies to accede to and actively participate in the WTO. The main conclusion is that the benefits … from WTO membership in terms of improved market access for traditional exports are likely to be limited. However, by …

the Doha Round negotiations. These requests prompted the WTO to collaborate with donors and development agencies but no … that, while the WTO Secretariat had to collaborate with other institutions, it is not institutionally in a position to … influence aid allocation. Aid for trade is delivered on donor’s terms in the same way than any other form of aid and the WTO …