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Author: James Thuo Gathii Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
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This article considers reform for the World Trade Organization (WTO) primarily through a review of the book Behind the Scenes at the WTO: The Real World of Trade Negotiations/The Lesson of Cancun (Fatouma Jawara and Aileen Kwa), which exposes how the trade negotiation process makes it possible for a few right countirescountries to dominate the trade agenda at the expense of other countries. Beyond being a book review, however, this article provides new ideas to aide in equalizing the WTO imbalance toward powerful nations. The article focuses on efforts to increase public involvement in order to reduce secrecy, but that alone will be insufficient. Instead, the WTO must focus on the pressing needs of developing countries, such as agricultural reform, in order to provide legitimacy to the organization. Based on these theses, the article will establish the interrelationship with the book Behind the Scenes at the WTO and how the change in framework will bring effective transparency at the WTO for the benefit of Third World nations.
Author: James Thuo Gathii Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
This article considers reform for the World Trade Organization (WTO) primarily through a review of the book Behind the Scenes at the WTO: The Real World of Trade Negotiations/The Lesson of Cancun (Fatouma Jawara and Aileen Kwa), which exposes how the trade negotiation process makes it possible for a few right countirescountries to dominate the trade agenda at the expense of other countries. Beyond being a book review, however, this article provides new ideas to aide in equalizing the WTO imbalance toward powerful nations. The article focuses on efforts to increase public involvement in order to reduce secrecy, but that alone will be insufficient. Instead, the WTO must focus on the pressing needs of developing countries, such as agricultural reform, in order to provide legitimacy to the organization. Based on these theses, the article will establish the interrelationship with the book Behind the Scenes at the WTO and how the change in framework will bring effective transparency at the WTO for the benefit of Third World nations.
Author: Teddy Soobramanien Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat ISBN: 1849291861 Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 101
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The publication provides historical and up-to-date insights into how reform can be transformational and progressive in nature and broadens the debate by focusing not only on new pathways for decision-making but also on important issues such as the environment and the SDGs. Finally, it highlights the importance of keeping the multilateral trading system alive for the benefit of all states, particularly for small states, Least Developed Countries and sub-Saharan African countries. WTO Reform: Reshaping Global Trade Governance for 21st Century Challenges, is designed to serve as a valuable resource for government officials, trade negotiators, journalists, academics and researchers who are attempting to sort through the complexities of the organisation and the role they can play in supporting a fairer, more inclusive WTO and multilateral trading system.
Author: Debra P. Steger Publisher: Wilfrid Laurier Univ. Press ISBN: 1554587956 Category : Political Science Languages : en Pages : 498
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Two high-level commissions—the Sutherland report in 2004, and the Warwick Commission report in 2007—addressed the future of the World Trade Organization and made proposals for incremental reform. This book goes further; it explains why institutional reform of the WTO is needed at this critical juncture in world history and provides innovative, practical proposals for modernizing the WTO to enable it to respond to the challenges of the twenty-first century. Contributors focus on five critical areas: transparency, decision- and rule-making procedures, internal management structures, participation by non-governmental organizations and civil society, and relationships with regional trade agreements. Co-published with the International Development Research Centre and the Centre for International Governance Innovation
Author: Isabelle Van Damme Publisher: ISBN: 0199562237 Category : Law Languages : en Pages : 487
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This book analyzes how the Appellate Body uses particular principles of general international law in interpreting the WTO covered agreements. It deals equally with general international law and WTO law. The aim is to explain how the Appellate Body interprets and applies customary international law on treaty interpretation in dealing with the WTO covered agreements. The main concern is to analyze the judicial reasoning and ways of justifying judicial decision-making. In particular, it answers the question of how the Appellate Body explains its reading of WTO treaty language. It is argued that the Appellate Body has interpreted the WTO covered agreements in a contextual and effective manner, an approach that corresponds with general international law. The character of the WTO covered agreements has, nevertheless, confronted the Appellate Body with some questions of interpretation that were until recently unexplored or neglected by other courts and tribunals. In that sense, the Appellate Body has contributed to the development of general international law on treaty interpretation, or at least to its practice. WTO law is primarily treaty law, but increasingly soft law and broader themes and values from other disciplines, such as governance, variable geometry and legitimacy, are introduced and discussed. Customary international law - with the exception of the principles of treaty interpretation - and general principles of law are often seen as excluded entirely. An ancillary theme of this proposed monograph is the extent to which customary international law and general principles of law have penetrated WTO law through the technique of treaty interpretation.
Author: World Trade Organization Publisher: ISBN: Category : Business & Economics Languages : en Pages : 88
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This research explores how multilateralism in trade has worked over the past twenty years - and provides some lessons about how it can work in the future. It describes the WTO's achievements across a number of key areas, including: strengthening the institutional foundations of the trade system; widening its membership and increasing participation; deepening trade integration through lower barriers and stronger rules; improving transparency and policy dialogue; strengthening dispute settlement; expanding cooperation with other international organizations; and enhancing public outreach. It concludes that the WTO has achieved much over its first twenty years but the success of the WTO has inevitably given rise to new challenges.
Author: Dencho Georgiev Publisher: Cameron May ISBN: 1905017243 Category : Arbitration and award, International Languages : en Pages : 488
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The review of the dispute settlement system of the WTO was written into the results of the Uruguay Round establishing the organization. The planned review after four years failed to reach a conclusion and the review process was extended several times, to be finally taken up as a separate part of the Doha Round.
Author: James Thuo Gathii
Author: James Thuo Gathii
Author: Teddy Soobramanien
Author: Debra P. Steger
Author: Gregory Shaffer
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Author: Isabelle Van Damme
Author: World Trade Organization
Author: Fatoumata Jawara
Author: Peter Gallagher
Author: Dencho Georgiev