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The Race for the WTO Director-General job: Seven candidates speak

In this VoxEU eBook, seven of the nine candidates for Director General of the WTO offer a short essay exploring challenges to the world trading system and how they would tackle them. Taken together, the essays provide a uniquely comprehensive view of the world’s trade governance problems. It will be an important reference long after the selection process ends.
Foreword
Richard Baldwin

Introduction: The choice of a new WTO Director-General
Bernard M. Hoekman and Petros C. Mavroidis

Challenges and way forward of the WTO
Taeho Bark

A vision for the WTO
Anabel González

WTO: At the crossroads
Tim Groser

Strengthening the WTO
Ahmad Thougan Hindawi

Building a new trade consensus
Alan Kyerematen

Consolidation and adaptation to new challenges
Amina Mohamed

The multilateral trading system and WTO: Challenges and priorities
Mari Pangestu

Citation

Mavroidis, P and B Hoekman (eds) (2013), ‘The Race for the WTO Director-General job: Seven candidates speak‘, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/race-wto-director-general-job-seven-candidates-speak

Citation

Baldwin, R, ‘Foreword: The Race for the WTO Director-General job: Seven candidates speak‘, in Mavroidis, P and B Hoekman (eds), The Race for the WTO Director-General job: Seven candidates speak, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/race-wto-director-general-job-seven-candidates-speak

Citation

Mavroidis, P and B Hoekman, ‘Introduction: The choice of a new WTO Director-General‘, in Mavroidis, P and B Hoekman (eds), The Race for the WTO Director-General job: Seven candidates speak, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/race-wto-director-general-job-seven-candidates-speak

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Bark, T, ‘Challenges and way forward of the WTO‘, in Mavroidis, P and B Hoekman (eds), The Race for the WTO Director-General job: Seven candidates speak, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/race-wto-director-general-job-seven-candidates-speak

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González, A, ‘A vision for the WTO‘, in Mavroidis, P and B Hoekman (eds), The Race for the WTO Director-General job: Seven candidates speak, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/race-wto-director-general-job-seven-candidates-speak

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Groser, T, ‘WTO: At the crossroads‘, in Mavroidis, P and B Hoekman (eds), The Race for the WTO Director-General job: Seven candidates speak, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/race-wto-director-general-job-seven-candidates-speak

Citation

Groser, T, ‘WTO: At the crossroads‘, in Mavroidis, P and B Hoekman (eds), The Race for the WTO Director-General job: Seven candidates speak, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/race-wto-director-general-job-seven-candidates-speak

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Hindawi, A, ‘Strengthening the WTO‘, in Mavroidis, P and B Hoekman (eds), The Race for the WTO Director-General job: Seven candidates speak, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/race-wto-director-general-job-seven-candidates-speak

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Kyerematen, A, ‘Building a new trade consensus‘, in Mavroidis, P and B Hoekman (eds), The Race for the WTO Director-General job: Seven candidates speak, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/race-wto-director-general-job-seven-candidates-speak

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Mohamed, A, ‘Consolidation and adaptation to new challenges‘, in Mavroidis, P and B Hoekman (eds), The Race for the WTO Director-General job: Seven candidates speak, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/race-wto-director-general-job-seven-candidates-speak

Citation

Pangestu, M, ‘The multilateral trading system and WTO: Challenges and priorities‘, in Mavroidis, P and B Hoekman (eds), The Race for the WTO Director-General job: Seven candidates speak, CEPR Press, Paris & London. https://cepr.org/publications/books-and-reports/race-wto-director-general-job-seven-candidates-speak