New from ICTSD
Busch, Marc; Reinhardt, Eric and Shaffer, Gregory. 2008. Does Legal Capacity Matter? Explaining Dispute Initiation and Antidumping Actions in the WTO. Issue Paper No. 4. ICTSD Project on Dispute Settlement
Bianchi, Andrea; Gradoni, Lorenzo and Samson, Melanie. 2008. Developing Countries, Countermeasures and WTO Law: Reinterpreting the DSU against the Background of International Law. Issue Paper No. 5. ICTSD Project on Dispute Settlement
François, Joseph; Horn, Henrik and Kaunitz, Niklas. 2008. Trading Profiles and Developing Country Participation in the WTO Dispute Settlement System. Issue Paper No.6. ICTSD Project on Dispute Settlement
Suthersanen, Uma. 2008. A2K and the WIPO Development Agenda: Time to List the ‘Public Domain’. Policy Brief No.1. ICTSD Programme on Intellectual Property and Sustainable Development
Laborde, David. 2008. Looking for a Meaningful Duty Free Quota Free Market Access Initiative in the Doha Development Agenda. Issue Paper No. 4. ICTSD Programme on Competitiveness and Sustainable Development
Selected Documents Circulated at the WTO
Committee on Agriculture - Special Session. 6 December 2008. Revised Draft Modalities for Agriculture. (TN/AG/W/4/Rev.4)
Negotiating Group on Non-agricultural Market Access. 6 December 2008. Draft Modalities for Non-agricultural Market Access (NAMA) - Fourth Revision. (TN/MA/W/103/Rev.3)
Negotiating Group on Rules. 19 December 2008. New Draft Consolidated Chair Texts of the AD and SCM Agreements. (TN/RL/W/236)
Dispute Settlement. 15 December 2008. China - Measures Affecting Imports on Automobile Parts. Report of the Appellate Body. (WT/DS339/AB/R)
Dispute Settlement. 26 November 2008. European Communities - Regime for the Importation, Sale and Distribution of Bananas -Second Recourse to Article 21.5 of the DSU by Ecuador. Compliance review of the Appellate Body (WT/DS27/AB/RW2/ECU)
Dispute Settlement. 12 December 2008. United States - Definitive Anti-dumping and Countervailing Duties on Certain Products from China. Request for the establishment of a panel by China (WT/DS379/2)
Other Selected Resources
Baldwin, Richard and Evenett, Simon (eds). December 2008. What World Leaders Must Do to Halt the Spread of Protectionism. Centre for Economic Policy Research. London
Deere, Carolyn. 2008. The Implementation Game: The TRIPS Agreement and the Global Politics of Intellectual Property Reform in Developing Countries. Oxford University Press
Dechezleprêtre, Antoine et al. November 2008. Invention and Transfer of Climate Change Mitigation Technologies on a Global Scale: A Study Drawing on Patent Data. CERNA, Mines ParisTrech. Paris
Bouët, Antoine and Laborde, David. December 2008. The Potential Costs of a Failed Doha Round. IFPRI. Washington D.C.
Shapiro, Ira and Samans, Richard. 2008. Office of the Unites States Trade Representative: Responding to the Changing Global Challenge. In Change for America: A Progressive Blueprint for the 44th President. Center for American Progress. Washington D.C.
te Welde, Dirk and Cali, Massiliano. 2008. Towards a Quantitative Assessment of Aid for Trade. Overseas Development Institute. London
Wise, Timothy and Gallagher, Kevin. December 2008. Putting Development Back in the WTO. In Looking Beyond Doha? New Thinking on Trade Policy and Development. Socialist Group in the European Parliament. Brussels
World Bank. November 2008. World Development Report 2009: Reshaping Economic Geography. The Word Bank. Washington D.C.