Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Encounters with International Trade Standards: China and the WTO -- 2 Performance of International Trade Standards I: Contract Law in China -- 3 Performance of International Trade Standards II: Property Law in China -- 4...

Introduction -- The dark before the dawn -- An oil and gas renaissance -- Economic impact -- The demand side of the ledger -- Regional and sectoral effects -- Environmental costs and benefits -- Trade policy considerations -- Conclusions

Cover -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Ch 1. China's Response to the Global Crisis -- Critiques of the Stimulus Program -- Ch 2. Imbalances and Their Implications for China's Economy -- The Expenditure Approach -- The Production Approach -- The Income Approach -- The...

This book chronicles how a controversial set of policy assumptions about the Japanese economy, known as revisionism, rose to become the basis of the trade policy approach of the Clinton administration, and details how Japan refused to accept US trade solutions and fought to discredit revisionism.

Intro -- Contents -- Title -- Preface xi -- Abbreviations and Acronyms xv -- Chapter 1. Regional Integration Agreements: An Overview 1 -- Chapter 2. How Trade Blocs Increase Trade and Competition 31 -- Chapter 3. Making the Most of Regional Integration 63 -- Chapter 4. Stimulating Investment 101...

This collection of essays by international lawyers and moral philosophers examines the legal, moral and political dimensions of free trade. It is an important text for experts across the fields of economics, politics, law and international trade

Research on the spatial aspects of economic activity has flourished over the past decade due to the emergence of new theory, new data, and an intense interest on the part of policymakers, especially in Europe but increasingly in North America and elsewhere as well. However, these...

Looks at how patterns of world trade are changing, how EEC protectionism affects developing countries, how special deals and exceptions are bought in some cases and looks to the future to see how the situation may develop

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Editor's Foreword -- Preface -- About the Authors -- East Asia and Global Security: Implications for Japan -- Japan and the Pacific Basin -- Toward a Bilateral Partnership: Improving Economic Relations -- The Changing Role of Japan in the...