Description
Book SynopsisThis 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.
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Examines key issues pertinent to the multinational trading system, as well as regional trade arrangements and policy developments at the national level
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Provides up-to-date assessments of the World Trade Organization''s current Trade Policy Reviews
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A vital resource for researchers, analysts and policy-advisors interested in trade policy and other open economy issues
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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
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Includes chapters exploring WTO issues, and a section on regional trading agreements
Table of ContentsForeword 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
