China's WTO commitments. Drawing on wide-ranging case studies of enterprise reform, Becky Chiu and Mervyn Lewis combine … effectively privatised all of their former state enterprises, China is still endeavouring to find a way to reinvent and re …-engineer its own state-owned economic establishments. The authors explore these reforms along with the problems of China's state …

-Yun Ma argues that China's privatization is not based on any grand blueprint; rather, it is privatization by "groping for … participation in China's privatization and the role of the state -- 6. China's privatization through listing state enterprises in …Since the 1980s, there has been a global wave of transfer of state assets to private hands. China is a relatively late …

-changing global economic environment, particularly during the WTO era and the ongoing Doha Round. Professor Das explores how the … creation of the multilateral trade regime, or the GATT/WTO system, has been fraught with difficulties. He describes the ways …

After 15 years the WTO is not functioning as envisioned and is faced with many new trade challenges − climate change … confused and apprehensive given the complexity of the problems brought by globalization. In just over a decade, the WTO has …

This book investigates the contributions of Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) to policymaking at the WTO … WTO member states, this book advances understandings of the parameters of NGO agency in global governance. …

The seemingly endless problems encountered by the IMF, WTO and World Bank provide major reasons for seeking reform … narrower focus in the mission of the World Bank and the IMF. In the case of the WTO, they call for a democratic reform of the …

Organization (WTO) continues. The trade and investment issues that have been outstanding since the Seattle events are explored in …1. The World Trade Organization and the international political economy -- 2. Institutional development of the WTO -- 3 … commerce -- 5. Triad policy interdependencies in the WTO -- 6. The USA in the WTO -- 7. The EU in the WTO -- 8. Japan in the …

One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects … of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international … trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with: accounting for risk in trade agreements; risk and the WTO …