framework of the World Trade Organization, which currently does not allow environmental challenges to be tackled effectively. …

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 …:2); (ii) "multilateralization" of the GPA; (iii) the reactivation of work in the (currently inactive) WTO Working Group …

What is the value of the WTO Committee on Agriculture? How much trade do countries talk about at the WTO? Do low … building and analysing a new database. WTO regular bodies and the Secretariat collect information on measures notified and …

but underappreciated change has taken place, largely beneath the radar of IPE scholarship: China has emerged as the world …’s largest subsidizer, profoundly transforming the global politics of agricultural subsidies. From a North-South battle, WTO … remains a pressing concern for developing countries, efforts to negotiate new and strengthened disciplines at the WTO have …

; the need to make use of the WTO forum to enhance credibility and sustain domestic regulatory reform programmes; the …

the developing and developed countries are unfair. All the developing countries realized that they needed the WTO to … against non-tariff protection from developed countries. The developing countries constitute for a four-fifths in the WTO, only … a small minority are active in it. Weak participation in the WTO is largely a reflection and extension of policy …

are based on simulations with the WTO Global trade Model which has a specific novel feature: the diffusion of ideas … leads to a 21 percentage points decrease in exports between Western and Eastern blocks from 46% to 25%; and (vi) the WTO has … that in a decoupling world, it would be essential for LDCs to continue trading with both Eastern and Western blocks. …