The World Economy Global Trade Policy 2005

by Greenaway, David

• ISBN13: 9781405145152
• ISBN10: 1405145153
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2006-07-28
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

The World Economy: Global Trade Policy 2005 is the twelfth in an annual series in which leading economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy. Each annual volume examines key issues pertinent to the multinational trading system, as well as regional trade arrangements and policy developments at the national level. Each volume also provides assessments of the World Trade Organization's recent Trade Policy Reviews. The 2005 issue has, as a special theme, agriculture and the Doha Round of World Trade Organization negotiations. This started in 2001 and aims to lower barriers to trade around the world. Contributions consider popular fallacies about agricultural liberalisation and the least developed countries, agricultural trade reform and the Round, and the role of developing countries in the negotiations. This yearrs"s institutional focus is the IMF and there are assessments of four new Trade Policy Reviews by leading analysts, for the Gambia, Singapore, Turkey and the United States.

Author Biography

David Greenaway is Professor of Economics and Director of the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy at The University of Nottingham.

Table of Contents

Foreword	vii
Contributors	viii
TRADE POLICY REVIEWS
Trade Policy Issues in a Small African Economy: The Trade Policy Review of The Gambia 2004	1	(14)
Andrew McKay
Bilateral `WTO-Plus' Free Trade Agreements: The WTO Trade Policy Review of Singapore 2004	15	(18)
S. M. Thanga Velu
Mun-Heng Toh
Turkey: Trade Policy Review	33	(34)
Subidey Togan
2004 Trade Policy Review -- The United States	67	(14)
Thomas J. Prusa
SPECIAL FEATURE -- AGRICULTURE AND THE DOHA ROUND
Agricultural Liberalisation and the Least Developed Countries: Six Fallacies	81	(24)
Arvind Panagariya
Agricultural Trade Reform and the Doha Development Agenda	105	(28)
Kym Anderson
Will Martin
Multilateral Agricultural Trade Liberalisation: The Contrasting Fortunes of Developing Countries in the Doha Round	133	(26)
Antoine Bouet
Jean-Christophe Bureau
Yvan Decreux
Sebastien Jean
INSTITUTIONAL FOCUS
Over-optimism and the IMF	159	(20)
Graham Bird
Index	179