Food, tobacco, and beverage products that were regulated by measures later subject to trade challenges.

This is a book for review for the "David Gantz, Liberalizing International Trade after Doha: Multilateral,Plurilateral, Regional, and Unilateral Initiatives".

BackgroundIt has long been contested that trade rules and agreements are used to dispute regulations aimed at preventing noncommunicable diseases (NCDs). Yet most analyses of...

In Latin America, under the premise of enhancing economic competitiveness, there has been an exponential increase in investments in the development of nanotechnologies. In this...

This article discusses the reasons for the multiple failures in the negotiations at WTO ministerial conferences. It identifies those aspects that need to be reviewed and changed...

Sustained high growth in many developing countries (‘the rise of the rest’) combined with long-standing WTO working practices hampers the ability of the WTO to perform its...

It reveals the nature of the concepts «coalition» and «informal group» in the framework of the international economic organizations, realizes their comparative analysis and...

A public economics framework is used to consider how pharmaceuticals should be priced when at least some of the research and development incentive comes...

There is a growing consensus that what you export matters for growth (see for instance, Haussman and al. 2007 and Krishna and Maloney (2011)). This paper examines whether and to...

Transition economies seeking to join the World Trade Organization (WTO) face a variety of distinctive challenges relating to their prospective obligations under the General...

This article focuses on the provisions of the WTO agreements regulating the use of subsidies in the agricultural sector by the member-states. It analyzes current practices of...

Russia's exports became further dominated by petroleum and natural gas over the last decade. The sector experienced double-digit annual export growth in...

The Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights negotiated in 1986 under the auspices of the General Agreement on Tariffs and...

The workshop brings diverse perspectives from outside the World Bank, providing a forum in which to exchange ideas and debate in the course of developing...

The last decade has witnessed two interesting features in international trade. First, high-tech products have become the fastest growing segment...

This note analyzes the impact that joining the Eurasian Customs Union will have on the Kyrgyz Republic s garment sector and options for improving the...

Ukraine has untapped growth potential. Ukraine has one of the most fertile agricultural lands in the world, an attractive geographical location in...

The report comprises two volumes, the Executive Summary and Policy Recommendations (Volume 1), and the Background Documents (Volume 2), providing the...

Using a global panel on research and development (R&D) expenditures, this paper documents that on average poor countries do far less R&D than...