This 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.
* 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
* 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
* Includes chapters exploring WTO issues, and a section on
regional trading agreements
Table of Content
Foreword 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
About the author
David Greenaway is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, where he is also Professor of Economics and Research Fellow in the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy.
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