Title: Development and Regional Trade Agreements - Entrenching Structural Inequities
Abstract: Multilateralism has the power to engender positive economic benefits through international trade, both for the countries that participate in the system and for individuals that may benefit from lowered costs. Nevertheless, as any student of introductory trade theory knows, with economic gains from trade come economic losses, and how multilateral rulemaking institutions and individual countries address those losses will shape the outcomes for individual participants in the system.