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Letting the Sun Shine in at the WTO : How Transparency Brings the Trading System to Life

Wolfe, Robert - 2013

Without transparency, trade agreements are just words on paper. Transparency as disclosure allows economic actors and trading partners to see how rules are implanted; transparency in decision-making ensures fairness and peer review. In the first section of this paper, I discuss the logic of...

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International Trade and Human Rights : An Unfinished Debate

Ibrahim, Abadir - 2013

Since the nexus between the regimes of human rights and international trade has been established, most of the views expressed on this subject are at extreme variance. On one side you have scholars who argue that the nexus between international trade and human rights is a positive one, and on the...

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Transitioning to Intellectual Property : How Can the WTO Integrate Least-Developed Countries into TRIPS?

Hold, Arno; Mercurio, Bryan - 2015

Despite the looming expiration of the extended transition period under Article 66.1 of the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) on 1 July 2013, most least-developed countries (LDCs) have not made significant progress in implementing the TRIPS Agreement. WTO...

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The WTO and the Doha Negotiation in Crisis?

Herwig, Alexia - 2015

Is the World Trade Organization (WTO) in a legitimacy crisis and might the protracted Doha negotiations be evidence of …

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Free-Riding on Enforcement in the WTO

Johns, Leslie; Pelc, Krzysztof - 2015

Countries can challenge potential trade violations using the WTO's dispute settlement system, yet many policies that appear to violate WTO rules remain unchallenged, even when they have a significant economic impact. Why is this? We argue that the likelihood that a country challenges a...

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The Development of Global Justice and Sustainable Development Principles in the WTO Multilateral Trading System Through the Lens of Non-Trade Concerns : An Appraisal on China's Pro...

Farah, Paolo Davide - 2016

The ongoing economic instability in several countries and regions throughout the world, along with the volatility of … consequences of the global expansion of world trade and of the monetary and commercial translation of all interpersonal …, and in different parts of the world are just some of the most critical examples on how the existing systems are failing …

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The Development of Global Justice and Sustainable Development Principles in the WTO Multilateral Trading System Through the Lens of Non-Trade Concerns : An Appraisal on China's Pro...

Farah, Paolo Davide - 2016

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Reconciling Regulatory Space with External Accountability through WTO Adjudication – Trade, Environment and Development

Weimer, Maria - 2016

This paper argues in favor of broadening the trade and environment debate in the WTO to include a developmental perspective. It takes the US-Tuna II dispute between the United Sates and Mexico as an example to show the complex intertwinement between economic, environmental and developmental...

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Development and the World Trade Organization : Proposal for the Agreement on Development Facilitation and the Council for Trade and Development in the WTO

Lee, Yong-Shik - 2013

Facilitating economic development of developing countries has become an important agenda in the world trading system …, currently represented by the World Trade Organization, will depend on bridging these gaps between developed and developing … regulatory reform to promote development in the current system. The paper also proposes organizational reform in the World Trade …

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Why are Safeguards Needed in a Trade Agreement?

Crowley, Meredith - 2006

This paper reviews the theoretical and empirical literature on the use of safeguards in a trade agreement. It then analyzes the available data on the use of safeguards by WTO members to examine two hypotheses in the economics literature, that safeguards improve welfare by facilitating tariff...

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