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
Cuprins
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
Despre autor
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.