Multilateral trade cooperation: what next?
简述WTO历史,构建国际谈判的简单议价模型,分析多哈回合谈判困难的原因,并建议WTO应专注于市场准入而非发展议程或监管问题。
This paper first briefly describes the role of the WTO and its history. It then lays out a simple bargaining model of international negotiations, which can be used for understanding the Doha Round of talks. Using this, we distil what we regard as the major potential explanations for the difficulties in these talks. We then discuss a number of the systemic questions that confront WTO members. We suggest that the WTO should concentrate on market access, rather than on promoting a development agenda or on further expanding its coverage to deal with regulatory issues or with other domestic policies.