The World Economy

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

ISBN 1444339060   Pages 320 ISBN13 9781444339062 (What's this?)   Weight (grammes) 582 Publisher John Wiley and Sons Ltd   Published in Chicester Imprint Wiley-Blackwell (an imprint of John Wiley & Sons Ltd)   Series title World Economy Special Issues Format Paperback   Height (mm) 246 Publication date 19 Aug 2011   Width (mm) 173 DEWEY 382   Spine width (mm) 17 DEWEY edition DC22   Academic level Professional / Scholarly

Foreword vii List of Contributors viii TRADE POLICY REVIEWS 1 Turkey: Trade Policy Review, 2007 1 SUBIDEY 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 VARDAL 6 Why is the Doha Development Agenda Failing? And What Can Be Done? A Computable General Equilibrium-Game Theoretical Approach 147 ANTOINE BOUET 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 ANDRE 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

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