how NGOs can render the WTO more accountable to the public. One area in which the WTO's practices for transparency and … contributions from non-members, including NGOs, shows to what extent WTO transparency and engagement with civil society have … WTO in promoting and legitimizing the rules-based multilateral trading system rests, to a large extent, on maintaining …

obligations or their possibly unintended negative impacts on others. Regulatory transparency can help. This paper examines how … three multilateral environmental agreements (MEAs) incorporate transparency into their regulatory regimes: CITES (endangered … of regulatory transparency to the success of these regimes, we use an analytic framework based on three major …

. We also find that FTAs relying on the WTO dispute settlement mechanism further reduce trade disputes between their …

Until recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been an eff ective framework for cooperation because it has … liberalization mechanism that has driven the WTO process to previous successes. Second, new restraints on bilateralism and …

Until recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been an effective framework for cooperation because it has … liberalization mechanism that has driven the WTO process to previous successes. Second, new restraints on bilateralism and …

preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the WTO, with a critical mass …

focus of GATT/WTO disciplines and Hudec’s analysis. …

featured in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) contribute to reducing trade costs. Inclusion of such provisions in RTAs …

the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of …