Improving the WTO’s trade framework

Bruce Bloingen from the University of Oregon provides some details of a monograph for CEPR and the Kiel Institute that looks like an important entry in a growing literature on improving the efficiency of WTO processes and global trade governance. Contributions from some top analysts including Patrick Messerlin, Alan Deardorff and Robert Stern, Philippa Dee and Chris Findlay.

"The Doha Round is stagnant, which does not bode well for trade liberalisation in the near future and possibly for the World Trade Organization in the long run… chapters in this volume identify a number of important long-run trends that the WTO and its members must simply come to grips with before meaningful progress can be made."  extract from: Vox EU

Andrew Stoler, Director of the Adelaide Institute for International Trade (and former Deputy Director-General WTO) and I have just embarked on a similar project with specific focus on finding a better way to reach agreements on agricultural markets. More soon.

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