"International Trade is multidisciplinary with a large variety of stakeholders. This book, a chapter-by-chapter assessment of the CPTPP (earlier the TPP), follows such reality. By assessing and digesting each CPTPP chapter, the book focuses on the practical implications of this modern free trade...

After the end of World War II, the United States, by far the dominant economic and military power at that time, joined with the surviving capitalist democracies to create an unprecedented institutional framework. By the 1980s many contended that these institutions--the General Agreement on...

This book presents a number of key studies pertaining to the most pressing challenges of economic regional integration in West Africa. The issues of monetary coordination, foreign exchange volatility, taxation, savings and macroeconomic convergence are investigated from a regional perspective....

The papers in this volume study political-economy aspects of policies associated with globalization: while globalization has generated efficiency gains, the resolution of the associated domestic income-redistribution consequences has in general involved political processes. The papers are...