The World Trade Organization ("WTO") has been heavily criticized since its inception for its potentially destructive influence on other policy domains, particularly environmental and labor policies. The public debate with respect to the WTO was structured, to a large extent, by this negative stance. "Linkage" emerged over the last decade as an alternative framework for thinking about the relati...

Although bluetongue (BT) causes large numbers of sheep mortalities in some parts of the world, the main economic global impact is due to restricted trade. Australia supports a risk-based approach using current scientific knowledge to determine animal health requirements for international trade. It is important that import health conditions for bluetongue virus (BTV) are based on science and are...

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...

Recent research has underlined the efficiency of the GATT/WTO rules from the standpoint of politically motivated governments, emphasizing that the current multilateral rules are capable of delivering a politically efficient equilibrium. Such an equilibrium is, however, economically inefficient. Global free trade, in particular, is generally unattainable even in a fully cooperative world, provid...

Liberalization of markets is the most important prerequisite for the process of Globalisation. In fact, liberalization has the capacity to increase countries wealth more than development aid. Once developing countries like SouthKorea, Taiwan, Singapore and Hong Kong for example became the so-called economically successful Asian “Tiger states” of the 1980s. In Europe, Ireland is a similar exampl...

Przedmiot badań: Od lat w dyskusji ekonomicznej trawa debata, czy gospodarki powinny być bardziej skłonne do liberalizacji handlu na preferencyjnych zasadach regionalizmu handlowego, oparciu o klauzulę najwyższego uprzywilejowania, promowany przez Światową Organizację Handlu (WTO). Współcześnie wszystkie kraje członkowskie WTO mają zawarte przynajmniej jed­no regionalne porozumienie handlowe (R...

The remaining questions relate to practical implementation. What are the political and legal measures to preserve and promote cultural diversity? This question has to be answered primarily on the regional and national planes but is also relevant on the European and global levels. Moreover, what consequences arise from this for the ongoing negotiations on trade liberalization within the World Tr...