China's economic growth is sputtering, the Euro is under threat, and the United States is combating serious trade disadvantages. Another Great Depression? Not quite. Noted economist and China expert Michael Pettis argues instead that we are undergoing a critical rebalancing of the world...

In a few years, the United States has gone from worrying about Japan's economic might to worrying about its meltdown. The rise and fall of America's 'results-oriented' trade policy towards Japan captures this turnaround. John Kunkel traces this Japan policy to a crisis in the institutions, laws...

Cover -- Will Africa Feed China? -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- List of Acronyms -- Maps -- Introduction -- 1. China and Mozambique: Fiction and Fact -- 2. "Begging with a Golden Bowl": Food Security and Commercial Farms -- 3. Seeds of Change: Foreign Agribusiness...

What does Cuba's socialist economy look like today, after a half-century of fluctuating strategies? Are the reforms instituted by Raúl Castro improving living conditions and boosting production and efficiency? What challenges does the government face in crafting policies to address the...

Intro -- CONTENTS -- Acknowledgements -- I: Tariffs and Trade Agreements -- Part I: Introduction -- 1. "A 3X3 Model of Customs Unions" Journal of International Economics -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Notation and assumptions -- 3. The analysis of prices -- 4. Utility analysis -- 5. The customs union...

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- 1. Introduction -- I. Theory -- 2. Reciprocal Trade Agreements and the Demand for Liberalization -- 3. Reciprocity and Congressional Delegation -- II. Historical Overview -- 4. Reciprocity and American Trade Policy, 1890-1994 -- III. Quantitative Evidence -- 5....

Intro -- Contents -- List of Figures and List of Tables -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Trade Structure, Threat Effectiveness, and "Democratic Trade Peace -- 3. The Empirical Record -- 4. American Threats and U.S.-China Negotiations over Most-Favored-Nation Status and Market Access -- 5. U.S.-Japan...

Trade liberalization is arguably a major issue in the conduct of commercial policy. As a component of it, the relationship between universal, multilateral trade liberalization and the conclusion of preferential trade agreements - that is, a process of liberalization which discriminates between...

Key Features:The first book to address the importance of non-tariff policies for further trade liberalizationFor the policymaker, it brings together a wide selection of the most recent findings of the potential effects of liberalizing non-tariff measures and improving trade facilitationFor the...

On 1 January 2004, the US–Singapore Free Trade Agreement (USSFTA)came into force. The USSFTA was the result of a two-year negotiationprocess which started towards the end of the Clinton Administrationand concluded under the Bush Administration. How did the negotiationprocess straddle the...