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Author : Maurice W. Schiff
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 34 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Acuerdos comerciales
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Two theories are combined to explain why free trade areas have proliferated more than customs unions have.
Author : Roger B. Porter,Pierre Sauve,Arvind Subramanian
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 470 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2004-06-23
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0815798253
A Brookings Institution Press and the Center for Business and Government at Harvard University publication The multilateral trading system stands at a crossroads. Despite its widely acknowledged contribution to global prosperity over the past half century, the movement toward further liberalization has increasingly been challenged. These essays by leading scholars and trade officials honor Raymond Vernon, one of the architects of the international economic institutions established following the Second World War. The book examines several key issues at the heart of the debate over the multilateral trading system. What are the global efficiency gains from further liberalization? How can efficiency gains be maximized while respecting legitimate claims to sovereignty? Is the trading system affording an equitable distribution of benefits between countries and among various groups within societies? Does civil society have a role in the trading system? What role should the World Trade Organization and its dispute settlement procedures play in resolving disputes and enhancing legitimacy?
Author : Francisco Gutiérrez Sanín,Gerd Schönwälder
Publisher : IDRC
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2010-09-15
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780745330631
A study of workers struggles against management regimes in Britain's car industry from the Second World War to the late 1980s.
Author : L. Alan Winters
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 51,7 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9789703111145
November 1996 Do the forces that regional integration arrangements set up encourage or discourage a trend toward globally freer trade? We don't know yet. The literature on regionalism versus multilateralism is growing as economists and political scientists grapple with the question of whether regional integration arrangements are good or bad for the multilateral system. Are regional integration arrangements building blocks or stumbling blocks, in Jagdish Bhagwati's phrase, or stepping stones toward multilateralism? As economists worry about the ability of the World Trade Organization to maintain the GATT's unsteady yet distinct momentum toward liberalism, and as they contemplate the emergence of world-scale regional integration arrangements (the EU, NAFTA, FTAA, APEC, and, possibly, TAFTA), the question has never been more pressing. Winters switches the focus from the immediate consequences of regionalism for the economic welfare of the integrating partners to the question of whether it sets up forces that encourage or discourage evolution toward globally freer trade. The answer is, We don't know yet. One can build models that suggest either conclusion, but these models are still so abstract that they should be viewed as parables rather than sources of testable predictions. Winters offers conclusions about research strategy as well as about the world we live in. Among the conclusions he reaches: * Since we value multilateralism, we had better work out what it means and, if it means different things to different people, make sure to identify the sense in which we are using the term. * Sector-specific lobbies are a danger if regionalism is permitted because they tend to stop blocs from moving all the way to global free trade. In the presence of lobbies, trade diversion is good politics even if it is bad economics. * Regionalism's direct effect on multilateralism is important, but possibly more so is the indirect effect it has by changing the ways in which groups of countries interact and respond to shocks in the world economy. * Regionalism, by allowing stronger internalization of the gains from trade liberalization, seems likely to facilitate freer trade when it is initially highly restricted. * The possibility of regionalism probably increases the risks of catastrophe in the trading system. The insurance incentives for joining regional arrangements and the existence of shiftable externalities both lead to such a conclusion. So too does the view that regionalism is a means to bring trade partners to the multilateral negotiating table because it is essentially coercive. Using regionalism for this purpose may have been an effective strategy, but it is also risky. This paper - a product of the International Trade Division, International Economics Department - was prepared for a conference on regional integration sponsored by the Centre for Economic Policy Research, La Coru-a, Spain, April 26-27, 1996, and will appear in the conference proceedings.
Author : Merle Holden
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 88 pages
File Size : 43,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : STANFORD:36105017948188
World Bank Discussion Paper No. 342. Examines South Africa's dominant trading position in the Southern African region and asks whether the country should participate in any of the existing regional trade groups and establish preferential trading arrangements within those various groups. The study concludes that preferential trading arrangements are no substitute for multilateral trade liberalization when the preferences are given to a more dominant economy.
Author : Amrita Narlikar,Martin Daunton,Robert M. Stern
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2012-05-31
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9780191628436
The Oxford Handbook on the World Trade Organization provides an authoritative and cutting-edge account of the World Trade Organization. Its purpose is to provide a holistic understanding of what the WTO does, how it goes about fulfilling its tasks, its achievements and problems, and how it might contend with some critical challenges. The Handbook benefits from an interdisciplinary approach. The editorial team comprises a transatlantic partnership between a political scientist, a historian, and an economist. The distinguished and international team of contributors to the volume includes leading political scientists, historians, economists, lawyers, and practitioners working in the area of multilateral trade. All the chapters present original and state-of-the-art research material. They critically engage with existing academic and policy debates, and also contribute to the evolution of the field by setting the agenda for current and future WTO studies.The Handbook is aimed at research institutions, university academics, post-graduate students, and final-year undergraduates working in the areas of international organization, trade policy and negotiations, global economic governance, and economic diplomacy. As such, it should find an enthusiastic readership amongst students and scholars in History, Economics, Political Science, International Relations, Public Policy, and Law. Equally important, the book should have direct relevance for diplomats, international bureaucrats, government officials, and other policy-makers and practitioners in the area of trade and economic governance.
Author : John H. Barton,Judith L. Goldstein,Timothy E. Josling,Richard H. Steinberg
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2010-12-16
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 9781400837892
The Evolution of the Trade Regime offers a comprehensive political-economic history of the development of the world's multilateral trade institutions, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) and its successor, the World Trade Organization (WTO). While other books confine themselves to describing contemporary GATT/WTO legal rules or analyzing their economic logic, this is the first to explain the logic and development behind these rules. The book begins by examining the institutions' rules, principles, practices, and norms from their genesis in the early postwar period to the present. It evaluates the extent to which changes in these institutional attributes have helped maintain or rebuild domestic constituencies for open markets. The book considers these questions by looking at the political, legal, and economic foundations of the trade regime from many angles. The authors conclude that throughout most of GATT/WTO history, power politics fundamentally shaped the creation and evolution of the GATT/WTO system. Yet in recent years, many aspects of the trade regime have failed to keep pace with shifts in underlying material interests and ideas, and the challenges presented by expanding membership and preferential trade agreements.
Author : Philip Keefer,David Stasavage
Publisher : World Bank Publications
Page : 54 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Banca central
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
Does delegation of policymaking authority to independent agencies improve policy outcomes? This paper reports new theory and tests related to delegation of monetary policy to an independent central bank. The authors find that delegation reduces inflation only under specific institutional and political conditions.
Author : Lorena A. Palacios-Chacón,Jahir Lombana-Coy,Patricia Margarita Reynaga-Alcalá
Publisher : Editorial Digital del Tecnológico de Monterrey
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2024-07-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 8210379456XXX
The main objective of this book is to address the international integration through four chapters, each one highlighting the challenges and opportunities for developing countries, especially emerging ones, as they hold the largest growth potential and the greatest possibility of becoming modern, industrial economies with a higher standard of living (Kolodko, 2002). Throughout each of the chapters, there are questions designed to test the comprehension of each topic. Moreover, at the end of each section, students will find questions and exercises to help them consolidate their learning process. The book ends with a set of conclusions emphasizing the recent growth of most developing economies that have changed free trade geopolitics and how the new world relations bear both challenges and opportunities for these types of economies.
Author : K. Kimbugwe,N. Perkidis,M. Yeung,W. Kerr,Nicholas Perdikis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-14
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780230369924
Post-colonial Africa is littered with regional trade agreements that amounted to little more than a photo opportunity for the leaders that signed them. This book explores conventional explanations for past failures and posits a new theory rooted in the symbiotic relationship between authoritarian politics and crony-capitalism.
Author : Richard E. Baldwin,Simon J. Evenett
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1907142231
The global financial crisis of 2008/9 is the Great Depression of the 21st century. For many though, the similarities stop at the Wall Street Crash as the current generation of policymakers have acted quickly to avoid the mistakes of the past. Yet the global crisis has made room for mistakes all of its own. While governments have apparently kept to their word on refraining from protectionist measures in the style of 1930s tariffs, there has been a disturbing rise in "murky protectionism." Seemingly benign, these crisis-linked policies are twisted to favour domestic firms, workers and investors. This book, first published as an eBook on VoxEU.org in March 2009, brings together leading trade policy practitioners and experts - including Australian Trade Minister Simon Crean and former Mexican President Ernesto Zedillo. Initially its aim was to advise policymakers heading in to the G20 meeting in London, but since the threat of murky protectionism persists, so too do their warnings.
Author : Miroslav N. Jovanović
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 732 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2015-05-29
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781781954539
The dissipating multilateral trading system and splintering in a number of trading blocs and arrangements has been one of the most important issues in international economics, particularly after the establishment of the World Trade Organisation in 1995.
Author : Almas Heshmati
Publisher : Springer
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 2016-04-30
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9783319304328
This edited volume focuses on economic integration, currency union, and sustainable and inclusive growth in East Africa. It consists of twelve interrelated studies that provide a comprehensive picture of the state and determinants of economic development and cooperation among countries in East Africa, such as Burundi, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda and Tanzania. The contributions are grouped into five parts: economic integration and its effects on trade; common currency and exchange rate; research, innovation, and knowledge, and shadow economics and corruption; inclusive and sustainable growth; and the conflict-growth nexus and reconstruction. This book will appeal to scholars and decision makers looking for the necessary tools and determinants of economic development and cooperation in East Africa.
Author : Dilip K. Das
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 1845421450
This comprehensive book addresses one of the most important aspects of international trade, namely, regional trade and regional integration agreements (RIAs). The focus of intense global interest and debate over the last decade, RIAs have become an integr
Author : Yong-Shik Lee,Gary Horlick,Won-Mog Choi,Tomer Broude
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 459 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2011-07-25
Category : Law
ISBN : 9781139499682
Economic development is the most important agenda in the international trading system today, as demonstrated by the Doha Development Agenda (DDA) adopted in the current multilateral trade negotiations of the World Trade Organization (the Doha Round). This book provides a relevant discussion of major international trade law issues from the perspective of development in the following areas: general issues on international trade law and economic development; and specific law and development issues in World Trade Organization, Free Trade Agreement and regional initiatives. This book offers an unparalleled breadth of coverage on the topic and diversity of authorship, as seventeen leading scholars contribute chapters from nine major developed and developing countries, including the United States, Canada, Japan, China (including Hong Kong), South Korea, Australia, Singapore and Israel.