Options for Global Trade Reform: A View from the Asia-Pacific

by Will Martin, Mari Pangestu

Overview

In November 2001 the members of the World Trade Organization approved the start of new trade talks at the WTO ministerial meeting in Doha. Written by a team of authors from developing and developed countries in the Asia-Pacific region, this collection of essays identifies ways that progress might be made on key negotiating topics. The negotiations launched will focus on such problematic issues as improving market access in agriculture, and strengthening the development impacts of WTO which, if achieved, will have profound implications on world trade.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780521042406
Publisher:	Cambridge University Press
Publication date:	10/15/2007
Series:	Trade and Development
Pages:	336
Product dimensions:	6.06(w) x 9.02(h) x 0.79(d)

About the Author

Will Martin is Lead Economist of the Development Research Group at the World Bank, Washington DC.

Mari Pangestu is Director of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, Jakarta, Indonesia.

Table of Contents

List of figures; List of tables; List of abbreviations and acronyms; List of contributors; 1. An overview: options for global trade reform - a view from the Asia-Pacific Will Martin and Mari Pangestu; 2. Agriculture and the Doha Development Agenda Kym Anderson, Erwidodo, Tubagus Feridhanusetyawan and Anna Strutt; 3. Liberalizing trade in manufactures Florian A. Alburo; 4. Returning textiles and clothing to GATT disciplines Nattapong Thongpakde and Wisarn Pupphavesa; 5. Approaches to further liberalization of trade in services Patrick Low and Aaditya Mattoo; 6. Liberalization of air transport services Christopher Findlay and Deunden Nikomborirak; 7. Liberalization of maritime transport services Chia Lin Sien, Lloyd C. Onyirimba and George S. Akpan; 8. International trade in telecoms services Ma. Joy V. Abrenica and Tony Warren; 9. East Asia and options for negotiations on investment Bijit Bora, Chia Siow Yue, Nick Freeman and Shujiro Urata; 10. Competition policy, developing countries, and the World Trade Organization Kerrin M. Vautier, Peter Lloyd and Ing-Wen Tsai; 11. The long and winding road to the Government Procurement Agreement: Korea's accession experience Inbom Choi; 12. Trade facilitation in the World Trade Organization: Singapore to Doha and beyond Yuen Pau Woo; 13. Trade, the environment and labour: text, institutions and context Simon S. C. Tay; Index.