Almost eight years after the launch of the Doha Round, the WTO negotiations remain mired in a swamp of detail, with … could be achieved; whether there are alternative approaches to WTO negotiations that could be explored for the future; and … what a future negotiating agenda might look like. It concludes with some reflections on the prospects for the WTO at the …

Though economic relations between India and Korea have been strengthening, the current size of trade and investment … this context, the present paper analyses trade and investment relations and explores future areas of potential co …-operation between India and Korea. We find that the increase in merchandise trade between the two countries has been mainly because of …

Can governments still use trade to reward and punish partner countries? While WTO rules and the pressures of … globalization restrict states' capacity to manipulate trade policies, politicization of trade is likely to occur where governments … relations than imports controlled by private enterprises. This finding suggests that politicized trade will increase as …

The continued difficulties of the World Trade Organization to achieve further multilateral trade liberalization in the … initiative could include three sets of issue: trade facilitation measures, an equitable investment regime, and effective …

The Marrakesh Agreement establishing the WTO recognizes the need for positive efforts designed to ensure that … developing countries and especially the least developed among them secure a share in the growth in international trade … commensurate with the needs of their economic development.This article discusses how the WTO contributes to facilitating Africa …

The WTO has not been able to recover since the collapse of the Doha Round in July 2008. Several ministerial conferences … to reform the WTO in 2018 and 2019. This book argues that the Trump Administration reform proposals have been much more … the proposals and called for the WTO to be development-oriented and inclusive. This book provides a critical analysis of …

possibility of closing such gaps and linking the two regions through various trade and investment initiatives. The opportunities …

Is political compliance a precondition for healthy trade relations with China? The Chinese government frequently … harm trade ties with China. We run a gravity model of exports to China from 159 partner countries between 1991 and 2008 to … test the extent to which bilateral tensions affect trade with autocratic China. In particular, we investigate empirically …

Almost eight years after the launch of the Doha Round, the WTO negotiations remain mired in a swamp of detail, with … could be achieved; whether there are alternative approaches to WTO negotiations that could be explored for the future; and … what a future negotiating agenda might look like. It concludes with some reflections on the prospects for the WTO at the …

potential impact of the "trade war" declared by President Trump. The analysis, which is based on a systematic disaggregation of … trade based on global production sharing into components and final assembly, suggests that the Sino-US trade gap is a … trade flows. …