to the World Trade Organization (WTO). It provides a consolidated perspective about insurance services in Laos, with … particular reference to the impact of possible Government commitments to liberalizing the insurance industry as part of its WTO … (GATS) of the WTO. The implications of liberalization for the insurance industry are then considered and reforms supporting …

supranational juridical system housed in the WTO, which is becoming increasingly litigious. It will be extremely difficult to … integrate the nontransparent way the Chinese economy functions without “rule of law” into the WTO’s highly legalized system. The … Chinese will also make it more difficult to achieve the “consensus” required for the WTO to function. In addition, Chinese …

OECD work on RTAs by examining regional provisions that deepen (WTO-plus) and expand (WTO-beyond) multilateral commitments … across a broad range of policy areas. It finds that WTO-plus measures are becoming more widespread and similar over time … set of attributes that may be able to render WTO-plus provisions more amenable to multilateralisation, either through a …

Papers presented at the International Seminar on WTO and its Implications for South Asia, held at Visakhapatnam …

the WTO, but it still has the support of farm incomes as its main concern. The old CAP of market price support has more or …

adversely affect the environment, there are linkages between existing rules of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and rules … for both national and international agendas, and special attention must be given to the relationship between the WTO and … the emerging international regime on climate change. This working paper examines the nexus of the WTO and climate change …

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 …