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Product Description: This two-volume collection of journal articles from the 1960's to the present provides a historical perspective the WTO (and its precursor, the GATT) and addresses current and future issues that confront the trading system. After a chapter outlining the functions and basic principles of the WTO, the first volume of the collection focuses on the need for and the genesis of multilateral trade rules and disciplines, and examines core non-discrimination rules...read more

Product Description: How can international trade agreements promote development and how can rules be designed to benefit poor countries? Can multilateral trade cooperation in the World Trade Organization (WTO) help developing countries create and strengthen institutions and regulatory regimes that will enhance the gains from trade and integration into the global economy? And should this even be done? These are questions that confront policy makers and citizens in both rich and poor countries, and they are the subject of Economic Development and Multilateral Trade Cooperation...read more

Product Description: Improving the economic performance of Arab countries is now more critical than ever. The region faces high population growth rates, rising unemployment, and modest economic growth coupled with increasingly intense competition from emerging markets in eastern Europe, Latin America, and Asia...read more

Product Description: Developing countries are increasingly confronted with the need to address trade policy related issues in international agreements, most prominently the World Trade Organization (WTO). New WTO negotiations on a broad range of subjects were launched in November 2001...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: 'While very diverse in many respects, the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries nevertheless also share some common characteristics, including a number of important shared challenges for policymakers.'The Middle East and North Africa region has great potential for economic growth and prosperity in the 21st century...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: Governments everywhere procure goods and services as inputs into the production of public goods and services. Such purchases can account for a substantial share of total demand for goods and services. Governments' tendencies, however, to "Buy National," and other discriminatory purchasing practices, can have high costs...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Product Description: This new edition incorporates all the recent developments in world trading arrangements, and includes a new chapter on the historical importance of international trade. (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)