Discussion of the governance of global trade and the multilateral trading system is too often dominated by developed country scholars and opinion-makers, with inadequate attention to developing-country perspectives. Making Global Trade Governance Work for Development gathers a diversity of developing country views on how to improve the governance of global trade and the WTO to beeter advence su…
Success in negotiation is not a matter of chance, but the result of careful planning and specialized skills. Some of these skills are inborn, others need to be learnt. In this book the psycologist and economist Dr Raymond Saner draws on his long years of experiences as a negotiation trainer and university lecturer to show that two-thirds in this everyday task. Without sacrificing scientific acc…
What can trade agreements do to promote development? How could rules be designed to bonefit poor countries? Should such rules be adopted? 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? These are questions th…
Relations between developed and developing countries in the international trading system, whose norms, rules and procedures are set out in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), have been reaching an impasse. For a quarter of a century, the developed countries have been allowing, or encouraging, the developing countries to become contracting parties to the GATT without requiring the…
Having passed its thirteenth anniversary, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become one of the most important international organisations in existence. As the only global intergovernmental organisation concerned with tje rules of trade between nations, it is the learding forum for trade negotiations and for the resolution of trade disputes. Its dispute settlement system has attracted enormo…
Given recent seismic upheavals in the world's money markets, an updated edition of an authotitative, reliable textbook on the international law of foreign investment has rarely been so timely. Sornarajah's classic text surveys how international law has developed to protect foreign investment by multinational actors and to control any misconduct on their part. It analyses treaty-based methods, e…
Like many other international organisations, the World Trade Organization stands at a crossroads. There is an obvious imbalance between the organisation's dispute settlement arm and its negotiation platform. While its current rules, supported by strong dispute settlement system, have provided some buffering against the negative effects of the financial crises, its negotiation machinery has not …
Standards are feature of virtually allareas of trade in products and services. Yet, although standards may achieve an efficient economic exchange, they have discriminatory consequences for trading partners when governments formulate or apply them in such a way as to cause obstacies to trade, thus enrolling standards among the increasingly significant 'non-tariff barriers' regulated by the WTO. …
An infographic (short for information graphic) is type of picture that blends data with design, helping individuals and organizations concisely communicate messages to their audience. The process of developing and publishing infographics is called data visualization, information design, or information architecture. For now, a newspaper or blog, flipped through a magazine, or used social media r…
Tensions between economic interests and environmental protection have assumed crisis proportions in awareness at every level of society. In particular, the World Trade Organization has become entangled in controversies related to legitimacy, democracy, environmental protection, and fragmentation of international law, fuelling a contentious debate on the use (or abuse) of environmental norms at …