The Trade Policy Reviews conducted in the Western Hemisphere over 1989-2009 contain a wealth of information that puts … operation of the Trade Policy Review Mechanism. Those Reviews show that trade liberalization came hand-in-hand with internal … reforms, and was generally of an autonomous nature and an intrinsic component of improved economic management. Trade …

regional trade agreements (RTAs) that had been notified to the WTO by November 2010. IP provisions in RTAs have been the …

This is a revision and update of "Intellectual Property Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements" by Valdés and Runyowa … trade agreements (RTAs) and the aggregation of such provisions into groups; it also updates the RTAs surveyed, from 194 in …