foreign investment flows. India is among the top ten World Trade Organization member countries in trade in services, and the … can be liberalised within the WTO framework. It presents some of the recent estimates of trade costs related to barriers …

PTAs are generally negotiated without any tariff concessions or transfers to non-member countries. Can such a PTA … benefit the neighbors' welfare? In a two-good competitive equilibrium model in the absence of an entrepôt, a PTA without …, however, it definitely improves the neighbors' welfare. In a multiple-good model, a PTA without concessions deteriorates the …

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 …:2); (ii) "multilateralization" of the GPA; (iii) the reactivation of work in the (currently inactive) WTO Working Group …

We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member …