Description
Book SynopsisThis is the fourteenth 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
- Analyses trade policy in areas such as Malaysia, Trinidad and Tobago as well as revealing the national security concerns that have become a dominant influence on US trade policy since 2001
- Includes a special focus on the Doha Round where contributors evaluate the winners and losers from trade liberalisation and investigate the cotton initiative of the WTO''s Doha Development Agenda
Table of ContentsPart I: Trade Policy Reviews. 1. Malaysia – Trade Policy Review 2006 (Bala Ramasamy and Matthew Yeung).
2. Allies and Friends: The Trade Policy Review of the United States, 2006 (Rodney D. Ludema).
3. Formulating Trade Policy in a Small Hydrocarbon-dependent Economy: The Case of Trinidad and Tobago (Michael Henry).
Part II: Special Focus on the Doha Round.
4. More or Less Ambition in the Doha Round: Winners and Losers from Trade Liberalisation with a Development Perspective (Antione Bouët, Simon Mevel and David Orden).
5. The World Trade Organisation’s Doha Cotton Initiative: A Tale of Two Issues (Kym Anderson and Ernesto Valenzuela).
6. What is at Stake in the Doha Round? (Susanna Kinnman and Magnus Lodefalk).
Part III: Trade Preferences.
7. Rethinking Trade Preferences: How Africa Can Diversify its Exports (Paul Collier and Anthony J. Venables).
Index.
