The WTO Promotes Trade, Strongly But Unevenly /

This paper furnishes robust evidence that the GATT/WTO has had a powerful and positive impact on trade. The impact has, however, been uneven. GATT/WTO membership for industrial countries has been associated with a large increase in imports estimated at about 40 percent of world trade. The same has n...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Wei, Shang-Jin
Other Authors: Subramanian, Arvind
Format: Journal
Language:English
Published: Washington, D.C. : International Monetary Fund, 2003.
Series:IMF Working Papers; Working Paper ; No. 2003/185
Online Access:Full text available on IMF