The World Trade Organization is the only international organization dealing with the global rules of trade between nations. Its main function is to ensure that trade flows as smoothly, predictably, and freely as possible. The WTO Annual Report 2014 provides a brief summary of the World Trade Organization's mission and general operation, as well as an overview of its accomplishments in 2013. It also provides a detailed review of the WTO's main areas of activity: • Trade negotiations • Implementation of WTO agreements and trade monitoring • Dispute settlement • Building trade capacity • Outreach

The 2021 Annual Report provides a comprehensive account of the WTO's activities in 2020 and early 2021. T months. Spotlights highlight major WTO events and activities.

The Annual Report 2020 provides a comprehensive account of the WTO's activities in 2019. The report begins with a message from WTO Director-General Roberto Azevêdo. This is followed by a brief overview of 2019 and more in-depth accounts of the WTO's various areas of activity over the past 12 months. Spotlights highlight major WTO events and activities.

Contains the complete and official texts of the WTO Agreements, collated in one volume.

The fast-evolving relationship between the promotion of welfare-enhancing competition and the balanced protection of intellectual property (IP) rights has attracted the attention of policymakers, analysts and scholars. This interest is inevitable in an environment that lays ever greater emphasis on the management of knowledge and innovation and on mechanisms to ensure that the public derives the expected social and economic benefits from this innovation and the spread of knowledge. This book looks at the positive linkage between IP and competition in jurisdictions around the world, surveying developments and policy issues from an international and comparative perspective. It includes analysis of key doctrinal and policy issues by leading academics and practitioners from around the globe and a cutting-edge survey of related developments across both developed and developing economies. It also situates current policy developments at the national level in the context of multilateral developments, at WIPO, WTO and elsewhere.

In five chapters, the annual report of the WTO covers trade policy, research results, the regular activities of the organization and details of its current structure, staff and budget.

The Annual Report 2018 provides an overview of WTO activities in 2017 and early 2018. The report begins with a message from WTO Director-General Roberto Azev do, followed by a brief overview of 2017-18 and more in-depth accounts of WTO activities over the past year.

Global value chains (GVCs) powered the surge of international trade after 1990 and now account for almost half of all trade. This shift enabled an unprecedented economic convergence: poor countries grew rapidly and began to catch up with richer countries. Since the 2008 global financial crisis, however, the growth of trade has been sluggish and the expansion of GVCs has stalled. Meanwhile, serious threats have emerged to the model of trade-led growth. New technologies could draw production closer to the consumer and reduce the demand for labor. And trade conflicts among large countries could lead to a retrenchment or a segmentation of GVCs. World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains examines whether there is still a path to development through GVCs and trade. It concludes that technological change is, at this stage, more a boon than a curse. GVCs can continue to boost growth, create better jobs, and reduce poverty provided that developing countries implement deeper reforms to promote GVC participation; industrial countries pursue open, predictable policies; and all countries revive multilateral cooperation.

This publication gives an overview of world trade in 2000 and selected long-term trends. It provides comparable statistics of trade by: region; and sector, including agricultural products, mining products, manufactures and commercial services. Detailed tables are given in the appendices, which include data on merchandise trade by product, region and major trading partner for the major trading nations for the period 1998-2000.