This chapter studies interlinkages and interaction between the reciprocal trade liberalization through the WTO and … preferential trade agreements from the perspective of the LDCs. An econometric exercise using an extended version of ARTNeT gravity … dataset is done to determine the impact of WTO and PTA membership on the developed and developing countries, as well as LDCs …

. This paper provides a detailed analysis of trade flows between the two emerging economies and investigates on which type of … trade impact of those measures that were imposed during the Great Recession, using monthly data on exports from China to … India. The use of monthly data is relatively new to the literature and allows a detailed examination of the trade impact of …

discussion on strengthening transparency in the World Trade Organization (WTO), scant attention has been paid to the evolution of …Countries embarking on trade negotiations are not only seeking increased market access, but also, reduced market … trade agreements (RTAs) concluded by OECD and large emerging economies over the last decade. While there is a lively …

What influences the adoption of transparency obligations in trade agreements, and what are its effects? This paper uses … a new dataset on transparency provisions in over a hundred regional trade agreements (RTAs) to provide empirical … evidence of the political economy determinants of international transparency commitments, as well as the trade impact of …

significant gains for liberalization of trade through the World Trade Organization. It is not clear that the reported gains are at … multilateral trade liberalization are very small even in a formal New Keynesian model incorporating economies with significant …

Abstract This author sheds some light on the theoretical arguments on the use of selectivity and uniformity of trade … policy in trade and industrialization for targeting industries and firms and provides a brief historical review of practices … preconditions for implementing “selective” (targeted) trade and industrial policies. Yet more, he discusses the implications of the …

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to … manipulate both international and domestic prices of resources, yet this policy is largely outside the disciplines of the WTO … (equivalent to trade taxes if no domestic production is possible). We review the literature, and argue that the policy equilibrium …

World Trade Organization (WTO). However, many are still individually small and thus have a limited ability to bilaterally … trade retaliation---such as the WTO---but not under agreements extended to include certain financial instruments. In …Developing countries now account for a significant fraction of both world trade and two thirds of the membership of the …

The Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations has been ongoing for 10 years, and given political … arguably requires greater recognition of the value of trade policy disciplines that will be part of any agreement. The WTO is … rules of the game for other trade-related policies. Given the slow progress of the Round, greater emphasis could be put on …