Conference on Trade and Development, the US Treasury Department and the World Bank. These essays report some of the core …

C. Fred Bergsten (1997), 'Open Regionalism', World Economy, 20 (5), 545-65 -- Gerard McLinden (2006), 'Needs … Agreement: A Comparative Study Based on Six Developing Countries', World Bank Working Paper, November, 1-5, 9-35 -- J. Michael …-Christophe Maur (2008), 'Regionalism and Trade Facilitation: A Primer', Journal of World Trade, 42 (6), 979-1012 -- Minette Libom Li …

(OECD) affect development and poverty in developing and transition economies …

Kei-Mu Yi (2003), 'Can Vertical Specialization Explain the Growth of World Trade?', Journal of Political Economy, 111 … L. Baier and Jeffrey H. Bergstrand (2001), 'The Growth of World Trade: Tariffs, Transport Costs, and Income Similarity …

, and Expertise: Causation and Precision in Upland Cotton', World Trade Review, 7 (1), 183-209 -- Gene M. Grossman and …-44 -- John H. Jackson (1997), 'The Perplexities of Subsidies in International Trade', in The World Trading System: Law and Policy … (eds), The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political Analysis, Volume II, Chapter 41, New York, NY: Springer …

The IMF, the World Bank and GATT/WTO have had to adapt to changing circumstances in the past 60 years as they guided … the world economy to growing interdependence and prosperity. Now they face several simultaneous challenges. In this book …

and integration between countries, substantial differences still exist throughout the world. Global Divergence in Trade …

China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was widely regarded as a major milestone in the …