commensurate with the needs of their economic development.This article discusses how the WTO contributes to facilitating Africa …The Marrakesh Agreement establishing the WTO recognizes the need for positive efforts designed to ensure that … developing countries and especially the least developed among them secure a share in the growth in international trade …

commensurate with the needs of their economic development.This article discusses how the WTO contributes to facilitating Africa … a vehicle for economic growth. The WTO, in close collaboration with partner institutions, lends its support to Africa in …The Marrakesh Agreement establishing the WTO recognizes the need for positive efforts designed to ensure that …

interests within the World Trade Organization (WTO) puts into question its ability to achieve its central objective of free …(r) trade. While internally rethinking the future of the WTO, it seems opportune to discuss, and factor in the realities of …Trade regulation may never have been in more flux than it is nowadays. Apart from the emergence of ‘megaregionals …

century. Secondly, in one area of economic activity - trade in government procurement markets - the revised WTO Agreement on … scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic …-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development …

and deeper paperless trade provisions than those featured in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement. A more detailed …Digital trade facilitation refers to the application of modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) to … simplify and automate international trade procedures. It is rapidly becoming essential to maintaining trade competitiveness and …

At the Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) held in Bali on 3–6 December 2013, the … ministers agreed upon the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation (ATF). This paper assesses the level of ambition of the ATF from …

produce any. Effective public policy cannot be made in the dark. The World Trade Organization, and the General Agreement on …International trade flows based on information. Is the foreign market open? What are the conditions for entry? Are … available from foreign sources and, most importantly, how available vaccines would be as most of the world’s countries could not …

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This … addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements, particularly the Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA) and the General … Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody …

Almost eight years after the launch of the Doha Round, the WTO negotiations remain mired in a swamp of detail, with …, the world has changed dramatically with the onset of a global economic crisis of proportions seldom, if ever, seen before … could be achieved; whether there are alternative approaches to WTO negotiations that could be explored for the future; and …