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How Much Further Can the WTO Go? Developed Countries Issues
A lack of political leadership is often perceived as the main source of the repeated difficulties of the WTO. The paper argues that such a lack of...
Assessing the EC Trade Policy in Goods
The recent shift in European trade policy to negotiate bilateral agreements with no less than 24 countries is taking Europe into dangerous waters....
Are Developing Countries Deterred from Using the WTO Dispute Settlement System?
The data issued by the WTO Secretariat on disputes shows that ‘developing countries’ have participated in one-third of the cases 1995-2005. The...
Trade Policy in Asia
Trade policy in Asia is dangerously unbalanced. It rests on a shaky leg of discriminatory bilateral and regional FTAs. Its other WTO leg has gone...
Coping with Trade Liberalisation Adjustments
With the prospect of further trade liberalisation the question for developing and vulnerable countries of how best to manage the adjustment process...
Intellectual Property Rights, Pharmaceuticals and Foreign Direct Investment
In response to the challenges and opportunities of globalisation, the pharmaceutical sector has evolved to become one of the most dynamic and...
South-South Services Trade
This paper contributes to the debate on the development potential of South-South trade in services. It represents the first attempt to identify key...
South South Trade in Goods
The empirical analysis presented in this paper indicates that trade between developing countries (South-South trade) offers a wide scope for...
Non Tariff Barriers in Computable General Equilibrium Modelling
With diminishing tariffs, the focus of trade policy makers and analysts is logically turning towards non-tariff barriers (NTBs), but there much...