The WTO as an international organization
By: edited by Anne O. Krueger with the assistance of Chonira Aturupane.
Contributors: Krueger, Anne O.; Aturupane, Chonira.; Conference on the World Trade Organization as an International Institution (1996 : Stanford University)
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Chicago
Language: eng
Number of pages: 425
Subjects: World Trade Organization -- Congresses.; International trade -- Congresses.; Free trade -- Congresses.; Commercial policy -- Congresses.; Free trade -- Developing countries -- Congresses.
Description: A major achievement of the 1990s was the establishment of the World Trade Organization, which superseded the GATT and provides a stronger institutional foundation for international trading arrangements among countries.

As an international organization, it faces a number of challenges, including achieving agreement over trade in services, bringing in new members from the economies in transition and developing countries, making the strengthened dispute settlement mechanism effective, and bringing about an increasingly open multilateral trading system. In this volume, some of the world's foremost authorities analyze the challenges and opportunities confronting the WTO.

Presuming no technical background in economics, this volume is a comprehensive and timely introduction to the WTO's situation in the global economy and will appeal to anyone interested in world trade.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Papers presented at the Conference on the World Trade Organization as an International Institution held at Stanford University in Dec. 1996.