The World Economy: Global Trade Policy 2010

ISBN-13: 9781444339062 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 320 str.

David Greenaway

Opis

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 developments at the national level
• Provides up-to-date assessments of the World Trade Organization's current Trade Policy Reviews
• A vital resource for researchers, analysts and policy-advisors interested in trade policy and other open economy issues
• Analyses global trade policy in Turkey, China and The Dominican Republic, and a survey by Tarlok Singh questions whether international trade does cause economic growth
• Includes chapters exploring WTO issues, and a section on regional trading agreements

Spis treści

Foreword vii

List of Contributors viii

TRADE POLICY REVIEWS

1 Turkey: Trade Policy Review, 2007 1
 SÜBIDEY TOGAN

2 China Trade Policy Review: A Political Economy Approach  52
CHANGYUAN LUO and JUN ZHANG

3 The Dominican Republic Trade Policy Review 2008  76
AMELIA U. SANTOS–PAULINO

WTO ISSUES

4 Modelling the Extensive Margin of World Trade: New Evidence on GATT and WTO Membership  92
GABRIEL FELBERMAYR and WILHELM KOHLER

5 How Effective are WTO Disciplines on Domestic Support and Market Access for Agriculture? 131
DAVID BLANDFORD, IVAR GAASLAND, ROBERTO GARCIA and ERLING VÅRDAL

6 Why is the Doha Development Agenda Failing? And What Can Be Done? A Computable General Equilibrium Game Theoretical Approach   147
ANTOINE BOUËT and DAVID LABORDE

SURVEY

7 Does International Trade Cause Economic Growth? A Survey   176
TARLOK SINGH

REGIONAL TRADING AGREEMENTS

8 Beyond the WTO? An Anatomy of EU and US Preferential Trade Agreements  223
 HENRIK HORN, PETROS C. MAVROIDIS and ANDRÉ SAPIR

9 Third–country Effects of Regional Trade Agreements   247
CAROLINE FREUND

10 Dispensing with NAFTA Rules of Origin? Some Policy Options  264
 PATRICK GEORGES

Index 296

O autorze

David Greenaway is Vice–Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, where he is also Professor of Economics and Research Fellow in the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy.

Blurb

The World Economy: Global Trade Policy 2010 is the seventeenth in an annual series in which leading economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. Each annual volume examines key issues pertinent to the multilateral trading system, as well as regional trade arrangements and policy developments at the national level. Each volume also provides assessments of the World Trade Organization′s recent Trade Policy Reviews.

The 2010 issue analyses global trade policy in Turkey, China and The Dominican Republic, and a survey by Tarlok Singh questions whether international trade does cause economic growth. The book also includes chapters exploring WTO issues, and a special section on regional trading agreements. This book is a vital resource for researchers, analysts and policy–advisors interested in trade policy and other open economy issues.