Globalization and International Trade Policies

by Stern, Robert M.

• ISBN13: 9789812700131
• ISBN10: 9812700137
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2009-09-01
• Publisher: World Scientific Pub Co Inc

Summary

This book brings together a collection of papers that Robert M Stern and his co-authors have written in recent years. The collection addresses a variety of issues pertinent to the global trading system. One group of papers deals with globalization in terms of what the public needs to know about this phenomenon and the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), whether some countries may be hurt by globalization, how global market integration relates to national sovereignty, and how and whether considerations of fairness are and should be dealt with in the global trading system and WTO negotiations. A second group of papers consists of analytical and computational modeling studies of multilateral, regional, and bilateral trading arrangements and negotiations from a global and national perspective for the United States and other major trading countries. The remaining papers include an empirical analysis of barriers to international services transactions and the consequences of liberalization, and issues of international trade and labor standards.

Table of Contents

Preface and Ackowledgments	p. v
Contributors	p. vii
Introduction and Overview	p. 1
Globalization	p. 17
What the Public Should Know about Globalization and the World Trade Organization	p. 19
Globalization's Bystanders: Does Trade Liberalization Hurt Countries That Do Not Participate?	p. 53
Global Market Integration and National Sovereignty	p. 77
Concepts of Fairness in the Global Trading System	p. 109
Analysis of Multilateral, Regional, and Bilateral Trading Arrangements	p. 151
Multilateral Trade Negotiations and Preferential Trading Arrangements	p. 153
An Overview of the Modeling of the Choices and Consequences of U.S. Trade Policies	p. 211
Issues of Manufactures Liberalization and Administered Protection in the Doha Round	p. 249
An Assessment of the Economic Effects of the Menu of U.S. Trade Policies	p. 263
Trade Diversion Under NAFTA	p. 303
Some Economic Effects of the Free Trade Agreement between Tunisia and the European Union	p. 343
A North American Free Trade Agreement: Analytical Issues and a Computational Assessment	p. 393
Computable General Equilibrium Estimates of the Gains from US-Canadian Trade Liberalization	p. 425
The Effects of the Tokyo Round on the Structure of Protection	p. 483
Services Trade	p. 521
Empirical Analysis of Barriers to International Services Transactions and the Consequences of Liberalization	p. 523
International Trade and Labor Standards	p. 597
Pros and Cons of Linking Trade and Labor Standards	p. 99
The Effects of Multinational Production on Wages and Working Conditions in Developing Countries	p. 623
U.S. Trade and Other Policy Options and Programs to Deter Foreign Exploitation of Child Labor	p. 689
Labor Standards and International Trade	p. 745
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