SAMPSON, Gary P. Trade, Environment, and the WTO : The Post-Seattle Agenda. Washington, Overseas Development Council, 2000, 153 p.

The Wto, the Post-doha Agenda and the Future of the Trade System : a Development Perspective

The World Trade Organisation has emerged as an important agency, whose rules and operations have major effects on the development policies of its developing country Members. This paper reviews some of the recent developments and issues arising from the WTO's work and activities. The paper takes what the author considers is a development perspective" of the trading system. The WTO held a Ministe...

BROKEN PROMISES: TRADE, AGRICULTURE AND DEVELOPMENT IN THE WTO Trade, Agriculture and Development in the WTO

Commentary on "Toward WTO 2000: A Seattle Odyssey"

I very much enjoyed reading Jeff Schott’s paper. When I agreed to discuss it, I knew only its proposed title “The WTO: Its Performance to Date and Current Issues.” The paper I received, however, has a different and catchy title borrowed from the title of a highly successful film. The changed title also is reflected in the paper’s forward-looking theme of the proposed new round of multilateral t...

the survey of the virtual higher education in iran and the ways of its development and improvement

این پژوهش با هدف "بررسی وضعیت موجود آموزش عالی مجازی در ایران و راههای توسعه و ارتقای آن " و با روش توصیفی-تحلیلی و پیمایشی صورت پذیرفته است. بررسی اسنادو مدارک موجود در زمینه آموزش مجازی نشان داد تعداد دانشجویان و مقاطع تحصیلی و رشته محل های دوره های الکترونیکی چندان مطلوب نبوده و از نظر کیفی نیز وضعیت شاخص خدمات آموزشی اساتید و وضعیت شبکه اینترنت در محیط آموزش مجازی نامطلوب است.

The WTO Trade Effect

This paper proposes to reexamine the GATT/WTO membership effect on bilateral trade flows, using nonparametric methods including pair-matching, permutation tests, and a Rosenbaum (2002) sensitivity analysis. Taken together in a coherent manner, these methods provide an estimation framework that is robust to misspecification biases, allows general forms of heterogeneous treatment effects, and add...