
Revitalising Multilateralism: Pragmatic Ideas for the New WTO Director-General
Contents
Revitalising multilateral trade cooperation: Why? Why Now? And How?
Simon J. Evenett and Richard Baldwin
Section 1: Enhancing the crisis management capabilities of the WTO
1 Against the clock: Eight steps to improve WTO crisis management
Alejandro Jara
2 COVID-19 trade policy measures, G20 declarations and WTO reform
Bernard Hoekman
3 How the WTO kept talking: Lessons from the COVID-19 crisis
Patrick Low and Robert Wolfe
4 Role of trade ministers at the WTO during crises: Activating global cooperation to overcome COVID-19
Anabel González
5 COVID-19 and beyond: What the WTO can do
Ujal Singh Bhatia
6 A crisis-era moratorium on tariff increases
Alessandro Nicita and Marcelo Olarreaga
Section 2: Reassessing the WTO’s place in the world trading system: The pandemic and beyond
7 Cumulative COVID-19 restrictions and the global maritime network
Inga Heiland and Karen Helene Ulltveit-Moe
8 Reviving air transportation and global commerce
Camilla B. Bosanquet and Kenneth J. Button
9 Lessons from the pandemic for trade facilitation and the WTO
Yann Duval
10 Lessons from the pandemic for trade cooperation on cross-border supply chains
Sébastien Miroudot
11 Three steps to facilitate global distribution of a COVID-19 vaccine
Caroline Freund and Christine McDaniel
12 Lessons from the pandemic for FDI screening practices
Xinquan Tu and Siqi Li
13 Feminising WTO 2.0
Mia Mikic and Vanika Sharma
Section 3: Revamping the WTO rule book in light of the pandemic
14 A pandemic trade deal: Trade and policy cooperation on medical goods
Alvaro Espitia, Nadia Rocha and Michele Ruta
15 Lessons from the pandemic for future WTO subsidy rules
Dessie Ambaw, Peter Draper and Henry Gao
16 State ownership stakes before and during the COVID-19 corporate support measures: Implications for future international cooperation
Przemyslaw Kowalski
17 COVID-19 as a catalyst for another bout of export mercantilism
Simon J. Evenett
18 Lessons from the pandemic for trade cooperation in digital services
Erik van der Marel
19 The temporary movement of natural persons (Mode 4): The need for a long view
L Alan Winters
20 Lessons from the pandemic for WTO work on agricultural trade and support
Peter Ungphakorn
21 Technical regulations in the WTO: The need to improve transparency
Biswajit Dhar