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

Copyright; Contents; Preface and acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Globalisation studies, the materialist bias and the 'third wave'; 2. Political economy and ideology; 3. Competition and change: the case of New Labour; 4. Serving the 'offshore': the case of International...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Figures, Tables, and Boxes -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Highlights -- 1. Regional Trends in Aid for Trade and Trade Costs -- Introduction -- 1.1 Recent Trends in Asia's Trade -- 1.2 Directions in Aid for Trade -- 1.3 Trade Cost...

Intro -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Ch.1: The Evolution of EU Development Policy -- Ch.2: The Enlarged European Union and the Developing World: What Future? -- Ch.3: European Development Policymaking: Globalisation and the Post-Lomé World -- Ch.4: Clash of Civilisations of Intercultural...

Covering the period from the establishment of Sui to the fall of Southern Sung, this volume for the first time gives a full, carefully arrranged overview of China's diplomatic and trade relations with its major and minor Asian neighbours, and the practical background to the missions.

Emerging East Asian economies have seen their share of world exports more than triple during the past quarter-century, and intraregional trade has driven this growth. Broad measures of development in East Asia have improved at the same headlong pace. Why push further integration now? Two...

This is the seventeenth volume in an annual series in which leading economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy.Examines key issues pertinent to the multinational trading system, as well as regional trade arrangements and policy...

The World Bank's 'World Trade Indicators' (WTI) database on the CD-ROM in this volume provides more than 300 performance indicators measuring at-the-border and behind-the-border country trade policy, institutions, and outcomes from 1995 to 2007. The database allows each country to be ranked by...

Cover -- US-China trade war and the WTO dispute settlement mechanism -- Paradigm shift -- the emergence of arbitral forum shopping in CPEC investment disputes -- One Belt One Road: will it increase the gravity between China and Eurasia.