This article places international trade law in the context of the rapid increase in economic growth and globalization … over the last 60 years that is reducing poverty and expanding the middle class in most nations of the world. This economic … GATT and later the WTO.The arguments for and against globalization are analyzed within the context of the history of …

volumes on both a multilateral and national scale since its creation at the end of the Second World War. By contrast … multilateral trading system leading to long-term negative, if not catastrophic, consequences for the world economy …