Developing Countries And Global Trade Negotiations

Author : Larry Crump,S. Javed Maswood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 237 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2007-03-19
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781134114764

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Developing Countries and Global Trade Negotiations by Larry Crump,S. Javed Maswood Pdf

The Doha Round of WTO negotiations commenced in November 2001 to further liberalize international trade and to specifically seek to remove trade barriers so developing countries might compete in major markets. This book brings together an international team of leading academics and researchers to explore the main issues of the Doha Round trade negotiations, such as agriculture, pharmaceuticals and services trade. In particular, it looks at how the formation of the G20 has complicated negotiations and made it harder to balance the competing interests of developed and developing countries, despite rhetorical assertion that the outcomes of this Round would reflect the interests of developing countries. The authors examine both how developing countries form alliances (such as the G20) to negotiate in the WTO meetings and also explore specific issues affecting developing countries including: trade in services investment, competition policy, trade facilitation and transparency in government procurement TRIPS and public health agricultural tariffs and subsidies. Contributing to an understanding of the dynamics of trade negotiations and the future of multilateralism, Developing Countries and Global Trade Negotiations will appeal to students and scholars in the fields of international trade, international negotiations, IPE and international relations.

Author : Sebasti n S ez
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2010-06-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0821384112

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Trade in Services Negotiations by Sebasti n S ez Pdf

This book aims at contributing to address some of the challenge that developing countries, especially the least-developing countries, face in the design of trade in service policies and to provide governments with tools to better incorporate services in their export strategies, including negotiations and cooperation with trading partners, and unilateral reforms. This book helps to identify key policy challenges faced by developing country trade negotiators, regulatory policy officials and/or service suppliers. Management of both policy reforms and trade agreements requires investments in sounder regulatory regimes and the establishment of enforcement mechanisms to help countries gradually opening and mitigate any potential downside risks. A successful strategy requires a proper sequencing that through an orderly and transparent process allows to prepare for greater competition. Developing countries face serious resource and administrative constraints to adequately negotiate multiple services agreements that serve their trade interest. For many developing countries, the administrative burden of handling and negotiating multiple trade agreements has become a serious concern and this can hamper their opportunities to obtain adequate market access for their services exports. The book develops in detail the methodological framework for the construction of a database and the core elements that will comprise it, to help countries to organize and manage their services commitments. Little attention has been devoted to the organization/preparation and the development, assessment and conclusion of the negotiation process. The book presents a simulation exercise designed for policymakers, trade negotiators, and trade practitioners working in the area of services. This exercise will help them to better understand the preparatory and negotiating stages of the process leading to liberalization of trade in services.

Author : Hamilton, Colleen,Whalley, John,University of Western Ontario. Centre for the Study of International Economic Relations,University of Western Ontario. Department of Economics
Publisher : London : Department of Economics, University of Western Ontario
Page : 141 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 1986
Category : Commerce
ISBN : 0771407785

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Dealing with the North : Developing Countries and Global Trade Negotiations by Hamilton, Colleen,Whalley, John,University of Western Ontario. Centre for the Study of International Economic Relations,University of Western Ontario. Department of Economics Pdf

Author : Fatoumata Jawara,Aileen Kwa
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 424 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1842775332

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Behind the Scenes at the WTO by Fatoumata Jawara,Aileen Kwa Pdf

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Author : Mr Joachim Becker,Mr Wolfgang Blaas
Publisher : Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Page : 314 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2012-10-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781409462903

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Strategic Arena Switching in International Trade Negotiations by Mr Joachim Becker,Mr Wolfgang Blaas Pdf

Since the 1970s global rule-making with respect to international trade has increased in importance. Political and academic attention has been focused either on global institutions like the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO and UN organisations, or on regional blocs like the EU or NAFTA. As negotiations take place in different international arenas, these arenas themselves take on added strategic significance, with agendas pursued and switched from one arena to another, should one route be blocked. While dominant actors have sought to use arena switching to their advantage, subordinate actors have begun to reactivate alternative arenas of negotiation in order to pursue their different agendas. This book employs a multi-level and multi-arena perspective to analyze global rule-making in international trade. It explains why actors – both state and non-state actors – prefer particular arenas. It also addresses the question of which institutional designs serve the aims of specific groups best and how the rules of the different arenas are related.

Author : John S. Odell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 283 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2006-02-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781139451000

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Negotiating Trade by John S. Odell Pdf

Negotiations between governments shape the world political economy and in turn the lives of people everywhere. Developing countries have become far more influential in talks in the World Trade Organization, including infamous stalemates in Seattle in 1999 and Cancún in 2003, as well as bilateral and regional talks like those that created NAFTA. Yet social science does not understand well enough the process of negotiation, and least of all the roles of developing countries, in these situations. This 2006 book sheds light on three aspects of this otherwise opaque process: the strategies developing countries use; coalition formation; and how they learn and influence other participants' beliefs. This book will be valuable for many readers interested in negotiation, international political economy, trade, development, global governance, or international law. Developing country negotiators and those who train them will find practical insights on how to avoid pitfalls and negotiate better.

Author : Amrita Narlikar
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 264 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0415375355

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International Trade and Developing Countries by Amrita Narlikar Pdf

This book analyzes the much-needed and vastly under-studied subject of bargaining coalitions of developing countries in the GATT and WTO. This is an extremely important contribution to the field.

Author : Anne O. Krueger
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 38 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Agriculture
ISBN : 8210379456XXX

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Developing Countries and the Next Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations by Anne O. Krueger Pdf

Author : Bhagirath Lal Das
Publisher : Zed Books
Page : 172 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1842777130

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The Current Negotiations in the WTO by Bhagirath Lal Das Pdf

An issue-by-issue guide to the current round of world trade negotiations.

Author : Hoda, Anwarul,Gulati, Ashok
Publisher : Intl Food Policy Res Inst
Page : 318 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2008-04-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780801886980

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WTO negotiations on agriculture and developing countries by Hoda, Anwarul,Gulati, Ashok Pdf

The World Trade Organization’s Doha Round of trade talks has been plagued by a lack of concrete progress toward establishing a fair and harmonious agricultural trading system. Because the results of the Doha Round could have far-reaching implications for the trade and economic prospects of developing countries in the twenty-first century, it is critical for these countries to fully understand the issues involved in the negotiations on agriculture. However, there has been no authoritative analysis of the rules and modalities on which governments of developing countries can rely. This book, coauthored by an insider to the trade talks that led to the establishment of the WTO, fills this gap. The volume begins with a detailed analysis of the provisions of the WTO’s Agreement on Agriculture and the modalities of the negotiations. It examines the implementation experience of key members of the WTO, then traces the developments in the negotiations up to the recent impasse. In light of these considerations, and on the basis of a case study of India, the authors propose various elements of a negotiating position and strategy for developing countries. The authors offer tough but realistic recommendations regarding tariffs, market access, treatment of sensitive or special products, and other aspects of international trade. This book will be of particular interest to researchers and practitioners as well as students seeking in-depth knowledge of the recent history of agricultural trade talks.

Author : United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Publisher : United Nations Publications
Page : 528 pages
File Size : 50,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : UCSD:31822031289663

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A Positive Agenda for Developing Countries by United Nations Conference on Trade and Development Pdf

This handbook presents a collection of technical papers prepared as background papers in the framework of regional and Ad Hoc meetings held by Member States, in parallel with the preparatory process of the Third World Trade Organization (WTO) Ministerial Conference. The compilation of papers include: the positive agenda and the Seattle Conference; elements of a positive agenda; special and differential treatment in the context of globalisation; the post-Uruguay Round tariff environment for developing country exports; the interest of developing countries in the next round of WTO agricultural negotiations; trade-related investment measures; technical transfer in the WTO agreements; and electronic-commerce, WTO and developing countries.

Author : John Whalley
Publisher : Springer
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 1989-08-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781349201105

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The Uruguay Round and Beyond by John Whalley Pdf

This is a report about developing country participation both in the current Uruguay round and beyond, arguing that over the post war years a climate of mistrust has evolved between developed and developing countries over trade issues.

Author : Syed Javed Maswood
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 184 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2013-09-23
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781135142315

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Trade, Development and Globalization by Syed Javed Maswood Pdf

This book provides a longitudinal study of developing country involvement in multilateral trade negotiations. The trade regime established at the end of the Second World War did not cater for, and in some cases excluded, the developmental interests of the newly independent countries. This book offers a detailed analysis of: The first attempts to revise the trade regime in the 1960s through the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development and the formation of the Group of 77 to enhance their bargaining potential. The mixed coalition strategy, with the Cairns Group in the Uruguay Round of GATT. The new bargaining coalition, the Group of Twenty, that took on a much more confrontational and assertive bargaining position in the unsuccessful Doha round of the World Trade Organization. In part two, the author explores the possibility that economic globalization may finally deliver to developing countries what they had failed to achieve in five decades of multilateral negotiations - an opportunity to climb the industrialization ladder and achieve development. The book offers a proposal for revising the format of trade negotiations in a way that helps overcome stalemates and deadlocks. Trade, Development and Globalization will be of interest to students and scholars of international trade, trade and development, negotiation, global governance, political economy, international relations and economics.

Author : John Howard Jackson
Publisher : MIT Press
Page : 464 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 1997
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0262600277

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The World Trading System by John Howard Jackson Pdf

Since the first edition of The World Trading System was published in 1989, the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations has been completed, and most governments have ratified and are in the process of implementing the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). In the Uruguay Round, more than 120 nations negotiated for over eight years, to produce a document of some 26,000 pages. This new edition of The World Trading System takes account of these and other developments. Like the first edition, however, its treatment of topical issues is grounded in the fundamental legal, constitutional, institutional, and political realities that mold trade policy. Thus the book continues to serve as an introduction to the study of trade law and policy. Two basic premises of The World Trading System are that economic concerns are central to foreign affairs, and that national economies are growing more interdependent. The author presents the economic principles of international trade policy and then examines how they operate under real- world constraints. In particular, he examines the extremely elaborate system of rules that governs international economic relations. Until now, the bulk of international trade policy has addressed trade in goods; issues inadequately addressed by policy include trade in services, intellectual property rights, certain investment measures, and agriculture. The author highlights the tension between legal rules, designed to create predictability and stability, and the governments need to make exceptions to solve short-term problems. He also looks at weaknesses of international trade policy, especially as it applies to developing countries and economies in transition. He concludes with a look at issues that will shape international trade policy well into the twenty-first century.

Author : James D. Gaisford,William Alexander Kerr
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105025306122

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Economic Analysis for International Trade Negotiations by James D. Gaisford,William Alexander Kerr Pdf

Provides an analytical framework for examining economic issues which arise in international trade negotiations. This framework is developed using examples from current contentious issues in the international trade in agricultural products, including market access, subsidies, non-tariff barriers, health regulations, and biotechnology. There is special emphasis on the issue of genetically modified products. Material is accessible to readers with a solid grasp of basic economic principles. Of interest to academics specializing in international trade, international relations, agri-business, and international business. Gaisford teaches economics at the University of Calgary. Kerr teaches at the University of Saskatchewan. Annotation copyrighted by Book News Inc., Portland, OR