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- The World Trade System: Trends and Challenges
- Book
- 2016
- Published by: The MIT Press
summary
When the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) metamorphosed into the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1994, it seemed that the third pillar of the international economic superstructure was finally in place. And yet with the failure of member countries to close the Doha Round of trade negotiations and the emergence of bilateral and plurilateral preferential trade arrangements (PTAs) such as the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the future of the multilateral WTO seems uncertain. In this volume, leading economists examine issues in trade policy that have arisen during this shift. The contributors discuss such topics as the effect of trade on poverty and inequality, PTAs and litigation between trading partners, the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement, and the relationship of food security and trade liberalization. They also offer regional perspectives on the TPP and trans-Atlantic free trade. ContributorsRahel Aichele, Jagdish Bhagwati, Steve Charnovitz, Gabriel Felbermayr Dimitar Gueorguiev, Bernard Hoekman, Jonas Kasteng, Pravin Krishna, Mary Lovely, Petros Mavroidis, Devashish Mitra, Arvind Panagariya, Tom Prusa, Andre Sapir, Stefan Tangermann
Table of Contents
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- Title Page, Copyright
- pp. i-iv
- Acknowledgments
- pp. ix-x
- 1 The World Trade System Today
- pp. 1-22
- I Issues in Trade Policy
- 2 Border Tax Equalization
- pp. 25-54
- 3 Trade, Poverty, and Inequality
- pp. 55-90
- II Regional Perspectives
- Contributors
- pp. 383-384
Additional Information
ISBN
9780262337687
Related ISBN(s)
9780262035231
MARC Record
OCLC
966671506
Pages
416
Launched on MUSE
2017-01-22
Language
English
Open Access
No