- Examines key issues pertinent to the multinational trading system, as well as regional trade arrangements and policy developments at the national level
- Provides up-to-date assessments of the World Trade Organization's current Trade Policy Reviews
- 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
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
The 2010 issue 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. The book also includes chapters exploring WTO issues, and a special section on regional trading agreements. This book is a vital resource for researchers, analysts and policy-advisors interested in trade policy and other open economy issues.