WTO 2025: Constructing an executive branch

Alan Wm. Wolff ()
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Alan Wm. Wolff: Peterson Institute for International Economics

No WP22-8, Working Paper Series from Peterson Institute for International Economics

Abstract: The World Trade Organization (WTO) as an institution accords much less of a role to its chief officer and her staff, namely the WTO Director-General and the Secretariat, than do any of its sister international organizations--the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development--to their chief officers and staff. The WTO Secretariat is much smaller than its peer international organizations and underfunded. In considering WTO reform, this deficiency needs to be rectified if the WTO's performance is to live up to its Members' needs.

Keywords: international trade; international trade agreements; dispute settlement; enforcement of agreements; US trade policy; World Trade Organization (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F13 F51 F53 F55 K33 K41 N40 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2022-05
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