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The prospective WTO Millennium Round of negotiations will highlight critical economic issues regarding the application and implementation of the WTO rules to international trade in goods and services. In this book, a distinguished group of academic experts considers the agenda and areas of...
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These two volumes survey the most important scholarly writings in economics and political science that explain the drivers and constraints to freer world trade. This authoritative collection, with contributions by leading academics, includes seminal studies that have changed the course of...
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Preface -- Part I the pathways toward mega regionalism and the two major players -- 1. Pathways to free trade area in asia pacific: problems and prospects / Peter C.Y. Chow -- 2. The Trans-Pacific Partnership and America's strategic role in Asia / Claude Barfield -- 3. Wrestling over the...
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Development, developing economies and the multilateral trade regime -- Necessity for a development round -- Special treatment and policy space for the developing economies in the multilateral trade regime -- The Fifth Ministerial Conference : the wheels come off at Cancún -- Enter the...
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Trade reforms and poverty-- the case of Cambodia / Isidro Soloaga -- International exposure, unionization, and market concentration-- the effects on factor use and firm productivity in Uruguay / Carlos Casacuberta, Gabriela Fachola and Néstor Gandelman -- Trade capacity building in Sub-Saharan...
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Drawing on candid accounts from practitioners, producers and industry representatives, this informative and proactive volume investigates the challenges facing today's fair trade movement and provides unique insights into the workings of social and economic power in world markets
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Trade Policy Reforms and Development, comprises 11 essays offering new contributions on the following topics: globalisation and political economy of trade; trade, labour standards and economic crisis; the changing role of the WTO; competition policy and the WTO; choice of formulas for market access...
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This book considers the impact of economic reforms on manufacturing performance and explores policy options for promoting manufacturing. Using country-specific case studies spanning Africa, South Asia, South East Asia and Latin America, the authors examine the evidence for and against both trade...
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Despite the disruption of the multilateral trade talks at Seattle in December 1999, the work of the World Trade Organization (WTO) continues. The trade and investment issues that have been outstanding since the Seattle events are explored in this far reaching book. The distinguished contributors...
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