The WTO at Twenty

Challenges and Achievements

• Author(s): World Trade Organization,
• Publisher: World Trade Organization
• Pages: 83
• ISBN_10: 928704063X
  ISBN_13: 9789287040633
  
• Language: en
• Categories: Business & Economics / International / General , Law / Commercial / International Trade , Political Science / International Relations / Trade & Tariffs , Political Science / Intergovernmental Organizations ,

Description:... 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.