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Geopolitics and the World Trading System

Mattoo, Aaditya; Ruta, Michele; Staiger, Robert W. - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2024

Until the beginning of this century, the GATT/WTO system worked. Economic research provided a compelling explanation. It showed that if governments maximize the well-being of their own countries broadly defined, GATT/WTO principles would facilitate mutually beneficial cooperation over their...

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The WTO Dispute Settlement System 1995-2010 : Some Descriptive Statistics

Horn, Henrik; Johannesson, Louise; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2014

The Dispute Settlement (DS) system is a central feature of the World Trade Organization (WTO) Agreement. This …

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WTO Appelate Body in crisis : the way forward

Hoda, Anwarul - 2021

The Appellate Body of the WTO has been in abeyance since December 11, 2019. The situation has been brought about by the US veto on filling up vacancies in the Appellate Body on account of its dissatisfaction withits functioning. Although WTO Members have been discussing proposals to set the...

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Africa's integration in the WTO multilateral trading system : academic support and the role of WTO Chairs

Smeets, Maarten - 2021 - Manuscript date: 22 February 2021

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...

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WTO reform: issues in special and differential treatment (S&DT)

Hoda, Anwarul - 2021

This paper evaluates the special and differential treatment provisions in the WTO Agreement and examines whether there is truth in the averment made by certain developed countries that special and differential treatment (S&DT) provisions have made the WTO framework of rules and disciplines...

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WTO 2025 : Constructing an Executive Branch

Wolff, Alan Wm - 2022

The World Trade Organization (WTO) as an institution accords much less of a role to its chief officer and her staff …, namely the WTO Director-General and the Secretariat, than do any of its sister international organizations—the World Bank …

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WTO 2025 : Enhancing global trade intelligence

Wolff, Alan Wm - 2022

available from foreign sources and, most importantly, how available vaccines would be as most of the world’s countries could not … produce any. Effective public policy cannot be made in the dark. The World Trade Organization, and the General Agreement on … Tariffs and Trade before it, were founded with the idea of providing transparency. But more is needed to understand why trade …

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Are WTO rulings biased? : the role of institutional design in protecting judicial autonomy

Pauwelyn, Joost; Pelc, Krzysztof J. - 2023

The dispute settlement system of the World Trade Organization prides itself on its high degree of judicial independence …

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The Future of the World Trade Organization

Dhar, Biswajit - 2013

The paper firstly identifies and assesses the key developments in the Doha Round that have contributed to the present stalemate. Secondly, it presents several options that the organization could consider for defining its future work program given the new realities of global economic engagement,...

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Winners and Losers in the Panel Stage of the WTO Dispute Settlement System

Hoekman, Bernard M.; Horn, Henrik; Mavroidis, Petros C. - 2014

A significant body of research has sought to examine claims that developing countries are underrepresented as complainants, and/or over-represented as respondents in the WTO dispute settlement system. Most of this literature has focused on their propensity to participate, the idea being that...

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