economic policy. In our empirical analysis, based on an extensive dataset covering most of world trade, we find that GSP tends …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General … Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody …

trade rests upon errors, or, if you prefer, upon half-truths.”1 Ever since Adam Smith successfully replaced mercantilist … orthodoxy with free trade doctrine in his celebrated book The Wealth of Nations, free trade critics have repeatedly challenged … the doctrine, offering half-truths to bolster their case. In each instance, free trade advocates have successfully exposed …

EU, allowing us to focus on those effects that are specifically attributable to further trade liberalization in the Doha …. Our Doha scenarios include agriculture, manufactures, and services liberalization, and trade facilitation. With … develop a realistic base1ine that takes into account events such as the entry of China into the WTO and the enlargement of the …

countries, trade preferences haveproven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization … WTO-based concern. …

With the help of a simple model of production and trade, we examine the differential impact of tariff escalation on … activity in that country can slow the pace of liberalization of service sector trade. …

support reform on developing economy welfare. Stylized simulations indicate reforms best suited for reducing trade distortions …

This paper analyses a number of the challenges confronting developing countries seeking to use the WTO Doha … ‘ownership’ of WTO agreements. …