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- More Favorable and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries:Towards a New Approach in the WTO
- This article discusses the options that could be considered in the WTO to respond to the call of WTO trade ministers to make Special and Differential Treatment SDT provisions in the WTO more effective. It argue for a new approach that puts the emphasis on nondiscriminatory liberalization of trade in...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- Implementation in WTO Dispute Settlement: An Introduction to the Problems and Possible Solutions
- To assess the effectiveness of the dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organization WTO, it is necessary to evaluate whether WTO members promptly take the actions required to bring themselves into compliance with their WTO obligations. In this paper, the operation of the WTO dispute settlement system is briefly...
- White papers 2005-03-01
- WTO Negotiation and Accession Issues for Vulnerable Economies
- The paper discusses the costs and benefits to be expected by least-developed and low-income economies if they accede to the WTO, the impact of current debates about WTO reform on vulnerable economies, and measures to make it easier for vulnerable economies to accede to and actively participate in the WTO....
- White papers 2000-07-01
- Decision-Making in the WTO
- Seattle will be remembered as the city where street demonstrations stopped global trade talks cold. However, the Seattle protesters do not deserve such notoriety. The meeting actually fell victim to serious substantive disagreements among the member countries of the World Trade Organization WTO over the prospective agenda for new trade...
- White papers 2000-03-01
- The WTO’s Problematic “Last Resort” Against Noncompliance
- This article looks at how the World Trade Organization WTO addresses noncompliance, and, in particular, at its endorsement of trade-restricting remedies. While the WTO Agreement does not express enthusiasm for such a measure, trade rules nonetheless allow an aggrieved government to erect new trade barriers against another country when its...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- The Case for Auctioning Countermeasures in the WTO
- A prominent problem with the WTO dispute settlement procedures is the practical difficulty faced by small and developing countries in finding the capacity to effectively retaliate against trading partners that are in violation of their WTO commitments. This paper offers a first formal analysis of the possibility that retaliation rights...
- White papers 2003-08-01
- The Case for Tradable Remedies in WTO Dispute Settlement
- The idea is that a country that has won cause before the WTO, and who is facing non-implementation by the author of the illegal act but feels that its own capacity to exercise its right to impose countermeasures is unlikely to lead to compliance, can auction off that right. The...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Should The Teeth Be Pulled? A Preliminary Assessment Of WTO Sanctions
- Although often described as one of the most important features of the World Trade Organization WTO dispute settlement system, the possibility of authorizing a trade sanction against a scofflaw member government is a mixed blessing. On the one hand, it reifies the WTO rules and promotes respect for them. On...
- White papers 2000-09-15
- WTO Decision Making: A Broken Process
- Almost four years after the WTO’s failure in Seattle, many of the central institutional weaknesses that caused the breakdown of that Conference, have not been addressed. In fact, they have worsened. Much work is needed on WTO decision–making the institution to take on a credible standing in the current global...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Democratizing The WTO
- As the WTO accretes power, challenges to its authority will only increase. The phrase "democracy deficit" has been used in different literatures, as applied to different institutions, to express a structural isolation from popular input. It is often, though not always, used as a critique. The WTO is afflicted with...
- White papers 2001-10-14
- Enhancing WTO Legitimacy: Constitutionalization or Global Subsidiarity?
- Increasingly, scholars have articulated the challenge of global economic governance in constitutional terms. The World Trade Organization WTO is often painted as an incipient global economic constitution. Its legitimacy would be enhanced, some contend, by transforming the WTO treaty system into a federal construct. But the application of the language...
- White papers 2002-10-22
- Russia and the WTO: The "Gravity" of Outsider Status
- With China's accession to the WTO in 2001, Russia is by far that organization's most prominent nonmember. This paper applies the gravity model to gauge whether this "outsider" status has been affecting Russia's export structure. On the basis of cross-section and panel regressions for 1995-2002, it finds that Russian exports...
- White papers 2004-08-01
- Do WTO Members Have More Liberal Trade Policy?
- This paper uses 68 measures of trade policy and trade liberalization to ask if membership in the World Trade Organization WTO and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT is associated with more liberal trade policy. Almost no measures of trade policy are significantly correlated with GATT/WTO...
- White papers 2002-11-01
- Trade Policies in Central Asia After EU Enlargement and Before Russian WTO Accession: Regionalism and Integration Into the World Economy
- This paper analyses the choices between regionalism and multilateralism, and the impact of WTO membership on the five Central Asian countries. The two main sections analyzes: why the large number of regional trade agreements which the Central Asian countries have signed have had little economic impact, and the consequences for...
- White papers 2005-02-04
- China, the WTO, and Globalization: What Happens Next
- After fifteen years of effort, China appears poised to join the World Trade Organization. This hard-won triumph is a milestone in the march of globalization. However, globalization brings dangers as well as opportunities. How the United States and its major allies handle the pressures associated with China's ongoing lurch toward...
- White papers 2001-07-19
- The WTO Services Agreement: Possible Impacts On Agriculture
- This white paper analyzes the World Trade Organization WTO General Agreement on Trade in Services GATS and the current GATS negotiations, begun in 2000 and scheduled for completion on January 1, 2005 (known as GATS 2000), with respect to service industry sectors related to agriculture. Particular attention is given to...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Does the WTO Make Trade More Stable?
- This paper examines the hypothesis that membership in the World Trade Organization WTO and its predecessor the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade GATT has increased the stability and predictability of trade flows. It uses a large data set covering annual bilateral trade flows between over 175 countries between 1950...
- White papers 2004-01-01
- The WTO and the Poorest Countries: The Stark Reality
- Small and poor countries pose a challenge for the World Trade Organization WTO. These countries have acquired a significant say in WTO decision-making. However, they have limited ability to engage in the reciprocity game that is at the heart of the WTO, and have limited interests in the broader liberalization...
- White papers 2004-05-01
- Reform the WTO! - But Where Are the Ideas?
- WTO, anti-globalization NGOs and civil society groups having successfully forced their way on to the world stage with massive demonstrations and slogans calling for reform of the WTO and an end to globalization. The enormous assortment of Green and other organizations now suddenly find themselves struck dumb when faced with...
- White papers 2003-01-01
- Variable Geometry for the WTO: Concept and Precedents
- This paper reviews this concept in the context of the history of the GATT/WTO and of different views as to its underlying rationale. It also takes a preliminary look at what a framework of variable geometry might involve and considers some of the benefits and problems likely to be associated...
- White papers 2004-05-01
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