Economic Development and Multilateral Trade Cooperation (2006)
Simon J. Evenett, Bernard M. Hoekman
A key challenge confronting the World Trade Organization (WTO) is to address perceptions that it is not supportive of development. Should the WTO be limited to increasing market access opportunities...
Government Procurement: Market Access, Transparency and Multilateral Trade Rules (2005)
Simon J. Evenett, Bernard M. Hoekman
This paper examines the effects on national welfare and market access of two public procurement practices, discrimination and nontransparency. Both policies have become prominent in international...
International Cooperation and the Reform of Public Procurement Policies (2005)
Simon J. Evenett, Bernard M. Hoekman
The decision not to launch negotiations in the WTO on three of the Singapore Issues in the so-called July 2004 package provides an opportunity to revisit the knowledge base upon which proposals for...
2001 Developing countries and a new Round of WTO negotiations (2001)
Thomas W. Hertel, Bernard M. Hoekman, Will Martin
This article summarizes some of the results and findings emerging from an ongoing World Bank research and capacity-building project that focuses on the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiating...
Determining the need for issue linkages in multilateral trade negotiations
In multilateral trade negotiations, trade-offs usually are made within the issue-areas that are on the agenda. In the absence of cross-issue trade-offs (linkages), agreement may not be possible. To...