This paper examines recent technological developments and how they could impact efforts by policymakers and political leaders in developing countries to harness trade and investment liberalization to achieve economic development outcomes. It begins by discussing some of the proven elements to...

As the Congress of the Federated States of Micronesia (FSM) prepares to debate a draft trade policy (the first in the young nation’s history) in the next few months, this is as good a time as any to review the broader economic development context in which this policy was framed and to reviews...

A number of legislative frameworks and policies exercise various constraints on access to the Internet for certain goods, services, and other content. Some of these are recognized by most, if not all market participants as legitimate (data protection laws, measures to combat fraud, as well as...

In several recent cases brought before the WTO's Dispute Settlement Body, several WTO Members have been taken to task for supposedly failing to comply with their obligations on establishing that a causal link existed between imports and injury caused to a domestic industry while at the same time...

The bed linen dispute provided a welcome and long overdue opportunity to throw some light on, and perhaps reign in some of the more blatant and excessive abuses of the European Commission's anti-dumping practices, which over the years, have come under repeated attack by a broad range of legal...

This paper first looks at the considerable progress made during the Doha Round in the context of the NAMA negotiations on non-tariff measures (NTMs) and discusses ways in which to retain the forward momentum as the WTO struggles to define its negotiating agenda for the next few years. The paper...

The Doha Round continues to struggle on with its ultimate fate still largely uncertain. This paper, written as part of a broader initiative by the World Trade Institute (WTI), the Economic Research Institute for ASEAN and East Asia (ERIA) and Universitas Pelita Haparan (UPH) in the run up to the...

A significant quantity of global merchandise trade takes place under one of two sets of preferential rules of origin (ROO), either those of the European Union, the so‐called Pan‐ European Cumulation System (PECS) or those generally preferred by the United States, as manifested in free trade...

With the rise of China as a global economic power, only subscribing in part to the model of market capitalism, and with the rise ‐ before China ‐ of the so‐called Asian tigers, all of which pursued state‐led economic growth strategies, one needs to question whether the free‐market...