| Description |
xvi, 425 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Contents |
Foreword / K. Kesavapany -- Introduction / Anne O. Krueger -- 1. The Capacity of the WTO to Fulfill Its Mandate / Richard Blackhurst -- 2. The WTO in Relation to the Fund and the Bank: Competencies, Agendas, and Linkages / David Vines and Julio J. Nogues -- 3. International Agencies and Cross-Border Liberalization: The WTO in Context / David Henderson and Douglas Irwin -- 4. International Institutions and Domestic Politics: GATT, WTO, and the Liberalization of International Trade / Judith Goldstein and Jean Baneth -- 5. Designing and Implementing Effective Dispute Settlement Procedures: WTO Dispute Settlement, Appraisal and Prospects / John H. Jackson -- 6. The United States, the ITO, and the WTO: Exit Options, Agent Slack, and Presidential Leadership / John Odell and Barry Eichengreen -- 7. Domestic Policy Objectives and the Multilateral Trade Order: Lessons from the Past / Frieder Roessler -- 8. Environmental and Labor Standards: What Role for the WTO? / Kym Anderson |
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9. Greater Coherence in Global Economic Policymaking: A WTO Perspective / Gary P. Sampson and Jean Baneth -- 10. Reaching Effective Agreements Covering Services / Richard H. Snape and Robert E. Baldwin -- 11. Imposing Multilateral Discipline on Administered Protection / Robert E. Baldwin -- 12. Regionalism and the WTO: Is Nondiscrimination Passe? / T. N. Srinivasan -- 13. The Role of the WTO for Economies in Transition / Jaroslaw Pietras and Constantine Michalopoulos -- 14. What Can the WTO Do for Developing Countries? / J. Michael Finger, L. Alan Winters and Alan Hirsch -- 15. An Agenda for the WTO / Anne O. Krueger |
| Summary |
Presuming no technical background in economics, this volume is a comprehensive and timely introduction to the WTO's situation in the global economy and will appeal to anyone interested in world trade |
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A major achievement of the 1990s was the establishment of the World Trade Organization, which superseded the GATT and provides a stronger institutional foundation for international trading arrangements among countries. As an international organization, it faces a number of challenges, including achieving agreement over trade in services, bringing in new members from the economies in transition and developing countries, making the strengthened dispute settlement mechanism effective, and bringing about an increasingly open multilateral trading system. In this volume, some of the world's foremost authorities analyze the challenges and opportunities confronting the WTO |
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Developing countries |
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Free trade |
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International cooperation |
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International dispute mediation |
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Overseas item |
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Trade in services |
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World Trade Organisation |
| Notes |
Papers presented at the Conference on the World Trade Organization as an International Institution held at Stanford University in Dec. 1996 |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and indexes |
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World Trade Organization -- Congresses.
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World Trade Organization.
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Commercial policy.
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Free trade -- Congresses.
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Free trade -- Developing countries -- Congresses.
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Commercial policy -- Congresses.
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Free trade -- Developing countries.
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Free trade.
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International trade -- Congresses.
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International trade.
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Author |
Aturupane, Chonira.
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Krueger, Anne O.
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Conference on the World Trade Organization as an International Institution (1996 : Stanford University)
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| LC no. |
97033584 |
| ISBN |
0226454495 (paperback) |
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0226454878 |
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