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the Secretariat of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and the International Labour Office (ILO). It addresses an issue that is of concern to both organizations: the relationship between trade and employment. On the basis of an overview of the existing academic literature, the study provides an impartial view of what can be said, and with what degree of confidence, on the relationship between tr...

February 15, 1997, will be remembered as a landmark date in the history of the multilateral trade system. On that day, sixty-nine governments formalized commitments to liberalize their basic telecommunications services under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). The resulting Decision on Commitments in Basic Telecommunications has both symbolic and practical meaning. The final act ...

The World Trade Organization and global fisheries sustainability Ussif Rashid Sumaila a,∗, Ahmed Khan a, Reg Watson a, Gordon Munro a,b, Dirk Zeller a, Nancy Baron c, Daniel Pauly a a Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, 2202 Main Mall, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4 b Department of Economics, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, B.C., Canada V6T 1Z4 c COMPASS, National Cent...

* Ronald Koenig Term Assistant Professor of Legal Studies, The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. A.B., Harvard University; J.D., LL.M. (foreign and international law), Duke University. 1 The World Trade Organization came into existence on January 1, 1995. It was the culmination of over seven years of multilateral trade negotiations known as the Uruguay Round. The Uruguay Round c...

Economy, and consequently trade, is a fundamental part of human social organization which, until now, has not been studied within the network modeling framework. Here we present the first, to the best of our knowledge, empirical characterization of the world trade web, that is, the network built upon the trade relationships between different countries in the world. This network displays the typ...