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The Collapse of Global Trade, Murky Protectionism, and the Crisis: Recommendations for the G20
This ebook published on March 5, 2009, presents concrete steps that G20 leaders should take to avoid a negative protection-recession spiral and the threat it would pose to a global recovery. Here is The Center's Director, Ernesto Zedillo's capstone essay, "The Multilateral Trading System: A Response to its Challengers."

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Global Trade and Financial Architecture

Research Papers
The research papers posted below were prepared for the project Global Trade and Financial Architecture, supported financially by the Department for International Development of the United Kingdom. The main findings are summarized in the short policy note, “Strengthening the Global Trade Architecture for Economic Development: An Agenda for Action.” The program of work was designed to build on the findings of the report of the UN Millennium Project Task Force on Trade, Trade for development. Its objectives were to identify and analyze options for making the multilateral trading system more supportive of development, and in particular to follow up on the specific recommendations in the Task Force Report that called for expanded “aid for trade” to complement the Doha negotiations and the need for new approaches on special and differential treatment of developing countries in the WTO.

The program comprised a steering committee consisting of researchers and policymakers, chaired by Ernesto Zedillo, Director of the Yale Center for the Study of Globalization. Members included John Audley, Simon Evenett, Joseph Francois, Eleanor Fuller, Gerry Helleiner, Bernard Hoekman, Faizel Ismail, Hans Peter Lankes, Ricardo Melendez-Ortiz, Patrick Messerlin, Dominique Njinkeu, Howard Pack, Sheila Page, Susan Prowse, Jayanta Roy, Kamal Saggi, Jose Manuel Salazar, Sok Siphana, Thierry Verdier and L. Alan Winters. All members of this group participated in a strictly personal capacity.

Research Papers

POLICY BRIEF Strengthening the Global Trade Architecture for Economic Development: An Agenda for Action

GTFA Project Overview

Trade for Development

Trade for Development: Main Conclusions and Recommendations

Poverty Impacts of Global Trade Reform – Case Studies

Presentation at the Annual Bank Conference on Development Economics

Department for International Development (UK)