should respond to this, including increased use and improvement of programs of trade adjustment assistance. …

growth rates, empirical research indicates that partial trade liberalization between more open economies has ambiguous growth …

A computable general equilibrium model of production and trade within and between rich and poor economies is developed … in which the interaction between trade and environmental policies is analysed. The shape of iso-emissions curves, defined … policy. However, where policy is efficient there may exist an important trade-off, evaluated and illustrated here, between …

the trade in services (GATS) and intellectual property rights (TRIPS) will cause and increase (new) protectionist measures … how the countries of the Triad (EU, Japan, USA) may reduce their trade conflicts and thereby help strengthening the GATT …

Within a few months‘ time, the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in Qatar will decide on … whether to hold a new trade round. In view of current preparatory work, two topics are expected to form the agenda of the …

Tariff water - the difference between bound and applied duties - provides relevant information on domestic trade policy … and WTO trade negotiations. This paper examines the general and sectoral tariff structure of 120 economies, using …

The Trade Policy Reviews conducted in the Western Hemisphere over 1989-2009 contain a wealth of information that puts … operation of the Trade Policy Review Mechanism. Those Reviews show that trade liberalization came hand-in-hand with internal … reforms, and was generally of an autonomous nature and an intrinsic component of improved economic management. Trade …