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 …

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

Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior … to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are they the optimal response to geography and …

Africa's interior-to-coast roads are well suited to export natural resources, but not to support regional trade. Are … networks expanded in a less interior-to-coast way in periods of democracy. This result suggests that Africa's interior …

and democracy. In his comment on my study, Hanusch indicates that he believes I was using the POLITY IV index. He has not …

There are many stories of democracy but little consensus over which variables robustly determine its emergence and … million regressions. The most robust determinants of the transition to democracy are GDP growth (a negative effect), past … countries are less likely to see democracy emerge, although the latter finding is driven entirely by oil producing Muslim …

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 …

, has largely taken place outside the standard trade-regulatory frameworks that cover most other forms of cross … trade and investment in the fields of e-commerce, informationbased services and online transmissions. One such measure is … the blockage of access to websites. This paper suggests that many WTO member states are legally obliged to permit an …

Over the past two decades, India and Pakistan have been involved in several activities regar ding bilateral trade … waves of trade-related activity reflected in popular media coverage? This question connects to a longstanding and important …-security issues such as trade. A dearth of popular awareness on trade-related activities between India and Pakistan may limit the …