A lack of political leadership is often perceived as the main source of the repeated difficulties of the WTO. The paper …

20 Years of the WTO: A retrospective provides an overview of the first two decades of the arbiter of the multilateral …

question, providing detailed coverage on three key design features of the GATT/WTO: reciprocity, nondiscrimination as embodied … GATT/WTO and we argue that an economic perspective can go a long way toward revealing a consistent logic to the inclusion …

"What have WTO accessions contributed to the rules-based multilateral trading system? What demands have been made by … original WTO members on acceding governments? How have the acceding governments fared? This volume of essays offers critical … readings on how WTO accession negotiations have expanded the reach of the multilateral trading system not only geographically …

WTO negotiations deal predominantly with bound - besides applied - tariff rates. But, how can reductions in tariffs …

WTO. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for benefiting from … relevance of the WTO for developing countries. Bolstering WTO mechanisms to monitor the actions of both developing and high …

which might inform a WTO-based effort to identify options for international cooperation. …