Richard Baldwin, Masahiro Kawai, Ganeshan Wignaraja — Future of the world trading system: Asian perspectives

The WTO risks losing its centricity in the world trading system due to its focus on 20th century trade issues and lack of progress in the Doha Round. This column introduces a new eBook that looks at how Asia meanwhile built a deep network of supply chains and is experimenting with new forms of regional trade governance. Asia’s experience of open trade-led development offers lessons for other regions. Better coherence is also vital between Asia’s regional trade rules and global trade governance.

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Future of the world trading system: Asian perspectives
Richard Baldwin, Professor of International Economics, Graduate Institute, Geneva; CEPR Policy Director, and VoxEU.org Editor-in-Chief; Masahiro Kawai, Dean of the Asian Development Bank Institute and Ganeshan Wignaraja, Director of Research of the Asian Development Bank Institute (ADBI)

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