examine the effect of trade liberalization through membership in the GATT/WTO on the incidence of child labour across … countries and over time. The authors examine child labour force participation data and WTO membership for 94 countries between … 1980 and 1999. They find that membership in the WTO is negatively correlated with child labour. However, they do not find a …

China’s WTO accession offers a rare opportunity to observe multinationals’ response to changes in property rights in a … developing country. WTO accession reduced incentives for joint ventures while reducing constraints on wholly owned foreign … equity joint ventures and changes in registration type following China’s WTO accession, we find evidence consistent with the …

with world trading system. Entry into WTO secured more opportunities for export growth and increased employment at home …

and trade policies of China represent, according to some, a violation of WTO rules. These accusations are discussed …

About two thirds of the WTO's around 150 members are developing countries. They play an increasingly important and … active role in the WTO because of their numbers, because they are becoming more important in the global economy, and because … whether the WTO policies have positive or negative effect on the trade of developing countries. The paper further discusses …

of the WTO accession using a macro-micro model. The latter couples a CGE model, including imperfect labour markets, with … improved market access and of increased foreign direct investment. Our simulations show that WTO accession will have mainly …