This paper discusses the challenges that confront the WTO, inspired by the recent appointment of a new Director-General for the organization and various views that have been expressed by knowledgeable observers as to how these challenges should be addressed. The paper focuses in particular on the prescriptions expressed by Ambassador Robert Zoellick, a former United States Trade Representative, regarding what the Director-General should focus on, and lays out an alternative view of the path forward for the WTO and for sustaining multilateral cooperation on trade
The World Trade Organization (WTO) recently celebrated twenty years of existence. The general wisdom...
The failure of Doha Round is a serious step backward for the WTO and the multilateral trading system...
This is the text of the 1994 Wincott Lecture, delivered on 25th October 1994 in London. It has been ...
The recent explosion of bilateral and regional deals, President Trump’s policy against multilaterali...
This paper first briefly describes the role of the WTO and its history. It then lays out a simple ba...
Despite the huge contribution the GATT has made to the world economy since 1948, substantial scope r...
This paper first briefly describes the role of the WTO and its history. It then lays out a simple ba...
The World Trade Organization ( WTO ), only six years old, faces two formidable challenges. First, it...
A lack of political leadership is often perceived as the main source of the repeated difficulties of...
This chapter identifies the most pressing challenges for the EU multilaterally oriented trade policy...
The WTO cannot operate in isolation from the concerns of the world in which it exists. Our ability t...
The WTO is looking for a new Director-General (DG). What does the trade community think is needed? T...
The continued difficulties of the World Trade Organization to achieve further multilateral trade lib...
World trade faces fundamental challenges. This essay examines six threats to the intellectual case f...
As a result of the seven-year-long Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, the agreement e...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) recently celebrated twenty years of existence. The general wisdom...
The failure of Doha Round is a serious step backward for the WTO and the multilateral trading system...
This is the text of the 1994 Wincott Lecture, delivered on 25th October 1994 in London. It has been ...
The recent explosion of bilateral and regional deals, President Trump’s policy against multilaterali...
This paper first briefly describes the role of the WTO and its history. It then lays out a simple ba...
Despite the huge contribution the GATT has made to the world economy since 1948, substantial scope r...
This paper first briefly describes the role of the WTO and its history. It then lays out a simple ba...
The World Trade Organization ( WTO ), only six years old, faces two formidable challenges. First, it...
A lack of political leadership is often perceived as the main source of the repeated difficulties of...
This chapter identifies the most pressing challenges for the EU multilaterally oriented trade policy...
The WTO cannot operate in isolation from the concerns of the world in which it exists. Our ability t...
The WTO is looking for a new Director-General (DG). What does the trade community think is needed? T...
The continued difficulties of the World Trade Organization to achieve further multilateral trade lib...
World trade faces fundamental challenges. This essay examines six threats to the intellectual case f...
As a result of the seven-year-long Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations, the agreement e...
The World Trade Organization (WTO) recently celebrated twenty years of existence. The general wisdom...
The failure of Doha Round is a serious step backward for the WTO and the multilateral trading system...
This is the text of the 1994 Wincott Lecture, delivered on 25th October 1994 in London. It has been ...