Please use this identifier to cite or link to this item: https://hdl.handle.net/10419/306821 
Year of Publication: 
2024
Series/Report no.: 
WTO Staff Working Paper No. ERSD-2024-06
Publisher: 
World Trade Organization (WTO), Geneva
Abstract: 
This paper studies the impact of the process of accession to the WTO on growth rates in a sample of 150 economies. Unlike GATT-era accessions, WTO accessions involve reforms that extend beyond conventional trade liberalization measures. Using information on the pace of negotiations and requests in the working party's meetings, we construct an index that tracks the progress of reforms in the pre-accession period. We estimate that economies that implemented reforms and made deeper commitments during their WTO accession negotiations grew on average 1.5 percentage points faster than they otherwise would have. These results are robust to instrumental variable estimation and falsification tests.
Subjects: 
WTO accession
structural reforms
trade and growth
JEL: 
F14
F43
F6
Document Type: 
Working Paper

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