The WTO as an international organization / edited by Anne O. Krueger with the assistance of Chonira Aturupane.

Format:

Book

Conference/Event

Contributor:

Krueger, Anne O.

Aturupane, Chonira.

Conference Name:

Conference on the World Trade Organization as an International Institution (1996 : Singapore)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

World Trade Organization--Congresses.

World Trade Organization.

International trade--Congresses.

International trade.

Free trade--Congresses.

Free trade.

Commercial policy--Congresses.

Commercial policy.

Free trade--Developing countries--Congresses.

Developing countries.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

xvi, 425 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 1998.

Summary:

A major achievement of the 1990s was the establishment of the World Trade Organization, which superseded the GATT and provides a stronger institutional foundation for international trading arrangements among countries.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. Several chapters address the WTO's institutional capacity directly, through such issues as the way national policies may influence or constrain the WTO, the difficulties of achieving coherence with the World Bank and the IMF, and the resources available to the WTO's secretariat in relation to the tasks it faces. Other papers consider more contemporary policy issues facing the WTO, including how to bring services trade into an open multilateral framework, how dispute settlement mechanisms can be improved, and how other concerns, such as labor standards and environmental issues, may be addressed. Two papers focus on the WTO's relationship to developing countries and countries in transition, and an introductory chapter provides an overview of the WTO's current operation.

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.

Contents:

I. The WTO's Institutional Capacity

1. The Capacity of the WTO to Fulfill Its Mandate / Richard Blackhurst 31

2. The WTO in Relation to the Fund and the Bank: Competencies, Agendas, and Linkages / David Vines 59

3. International Agencies and Cross-Border Liberalization: The WTO in Context / David Henderson 97

4. International Institutions and Domestic Politics: GATT, WTO, and the Liberalization of International Trade / Judith Goldstein 133

5. Designing and Implementing Effective Dispute Settlement Procedures: WTO Dispute Settlement, Appraisal and Prospects / John H. Jackson 161

6. The United States, the ITO, and the WTO: Exit Options, Agent Slack, and Presidential Leadership / John Odell, Barry Eichengreen 181

II. Substantive Issues and Challenges

7. Domestic Policy Objectives and the Multilateral Trade Order: Lessons from the Past / Frieder Roessler 213

8. Environmental and Labor Standards: What Role for the WTO? / Kym Anderson 231

9. Greater Coherence in Global Economic Policymaking: A WTO Perspective / Gary P. Sampson 257

10. Reaching Effective Agreements Covering Services / Richard H. Snape 279

11. Imposing Multilateral Discipline on Administered Protection / Robert E. Baldwin 297

12. Regionalism and the WTO: Is Nondiscrimination Passe? / T.N. Srinivasan 329

III. Issues of Concern to Particular Country Groupings

13. The Role of the WTO for Economies in Transition / Jaroslaw Pietras 353

14. What Can the WTO Do for Developing Countries? / J. Michael Finger, L. Alan Winters 365

15. An Agenda for the WTO / Anne O. Krueger 401.

Notes:

Papers presented at the Conference on the World Trade Organization as an International Institution held in Singapore in Dec. 1996.

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

ISBN:

0226454878

OCLC:

37499886