and the countries of East Asia. The report first looks at a group of systemic issues - preferential rules of origin … Asian countries and across the rest of the world will be used throughout for illustrative purposes. …

) negotiations; and 4) while the world economy stands to gain massively from liberalization in the mobility of labor, adverse popular …

countries in the World Trade Organization (WTO) system use to restrict international trade. While such trade remedies are also … hence "vigilante justice." "--World Bank web site …

"There is a fundamental shift taking place in the world economy to which the multilateral trading system has failed to … interests largely in the rich countries, is running out of steam; (ii) the world economy is moving broadly from conditions of … commonality of interests and scope for give-and-take on these new issues make multilateral cooperation worth attempting. "--World …

liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves … cut applied tariffs, particularly on agricultural imports. "--World Bank web site …

presence of trade preferences. The World Bank's LINKAGE model of the global economy is employed to examine the impact first of … agricultural and nonagricultural trade could significantly benefit the region. "--World Bank web site …

monitoring and the need for transparency to increase the benefits of WTO membership to small countries. "--World Bank web site …

improvements. "--World Bank web site …