Trade, Poverty, Development: Getting Beyond the Wto's Doha Deadlock

ISBN-13: 9780415624497 / Angielski / Twarda / 2012 / 264 str.

Rorden Wilkinson; James Scott

Opis

This work seeks to look beyond the seemingly endless deadlock in the WTO's Doha round of trade negotiations that began in November 2001 and were first scheduled to conclude by January 1st, 2005. As well as offering an incisive analysis of the ills of the round, this book expands on how the round could be moved forward.

Spis treści

Introduction: The Promise of "Development" and the Doha Development Agenda  James Scott and Rorden Wilkinson  Part 1:The Round  1. The Poverty of the Doha Round and the Least Developed Countries James Scott and Rorden Wilkinson  2. The Doha Development Agenda Ten Years On: What Next? Bernard Hoekman  Part 2: Key Issues  3. Food Security and the WTO Jennifer Clapp  4. Poverty and Cotton in the DDA Donna Lee  Part 3: The View from Inside  5. The Changing Global Economy, Africa and the DDA Ujal Singh Bhatia  6. Mandela’s Way: Reflections on South Africa’s Role in the Multilateral Trading System Faizel Ismail and Brendan Vickers  7. Africa and the Promise of the Doha Round Yonov Frederick Agah  8. The Doha Round and the Future of the WTO Sun Zhenyu  Focus on Africa  9. Some Consequences of Trade Liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa Jomo Kwame Sundaram  10. Africa and the Doha round Richard E. Mshomba  11. The Doha Development Agenda: Prospective Outcomes and African Perspectives Pradeep Mehta, Bipul Chatterjee and Joseph George  12. The Doha Development Agenda and the WTO can Deliver on Africa’s Development Priorities Peter Draper, Memory Dube and Morisho Nene

O autorze

Rorden Wilkinson is Professor of Global Political Economy and Head-elect Department of International Relations, University of Sussex, UK. James Scott is Hallsworth Research Fellow with the Brooks World Poverty Institute at the University of Manchester.