This volume brings together a selection of papers that were prepared as background analyses for a collaborative research capacity-building project, focusing on the WTO negotiating agenda....

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....

The World Trade Organization is likely to be a major international organization for the foreseeable future. This volume, the first full-length study of the WTO and GATT from the viewpoint of public choice and political economy, details the mechanics of the multilateral trading system that emerged from the Uruguay Round of GATT....

In recent years trade has been transformed by significant growth and the increased interdependence of countries. But this very increase in world trade has brought problems, with disputes over markets, tariffs, and profit. Attempts to address these problems led to the foundation of GATT, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade....

At a time when countries in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) are joining the World Trade Organization, the lack of an economically sound analysis of trade policies in the region is especially notable....

International trade is a matter of vital importance for developing countries, since it can stimulate growth and contribute to poverty reduction....