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The Doha Round: “Death-Defying Agenda” or “Don’t Do it Again”?
Almost eight years after the launch of the WTO's Doha Round, negotiations remain mired in a swamp of detail, with many participants unwilling or...
How to Revive Doha with Some Chance of Success
This Policy Brief concerns the troubled state of the Doha Round. The classical model for a multilateral trade negotiation (as developed from the GATT...
Origins of the Financial Crisis and Requirements for Reform
This paper examines the causes of the global financial crisis (focusing in particular on why residential mortgage-backed securities and credit...
Transparency of Complex Regulation: How Should WTO Trade Policy Reviews Deal with Sanitary and Phytosanitary Policies?
Protectionism flourishes in the shadow and withers in the sunlight. That is the idea behind the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) that...
Sprinting During a Marathon: Why the WTO Ministerial Failed in July 2008
The WTO’s nine day sprint in July 2008 was an attempt to break the logjam on “modalities” for agriculture and NAMA in the marathon Doha Round...
Water Supply: Public or Private?
Most theories on private sector participation in water infrastructure are based on the sole supposed difference of efficiency between the public and...
The Armington-Heckscher-Ohlin Model – An Intuitive Exposition
Global models of world trade are often used as input into assessing the possible effects of liberalising trade. As simplifications of the economic...