The Challenges Facing African Countries Regarding the WTO Trade Regime Since the Third Ministerial Meeting in Seattle
Author: Dot Keet
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Published: 2000
Total Pages: 54
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The WTO After Seattle
Author: Jeffrey J. Schott
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 2000
Total Pages: 324
ISBN-13: 9780881322903
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"The WTO after Seattle", presented by the Institute for International Economics, analyzes the problems and challenges facing the World Trade Organization after the failure of the Seattle trade ministerial in December 1999. The volume presents balanced perspectives on world trade problems by authors from the United States, Europe, Asia, and Latin America, with recommendations on what needs to be done in key areas to launch new talks.
The WTO at Twenty
Author: World Trade Organization
Publisher:
Published: 2015
Total Pages: 88
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis research explores how multilateralism in trade has worked over the past twenty years - and provides some lessons about how it can work in the future. It describes the WTO's achievements across a number of key areas, including: strengthening the institutional foundations of the trade system; widening its membership and increasing participation; deepening trade integration through lower barriers and stronger rules; improving transparency and policy dialogue; strengthening dispute settlement; expanding cooperation with other international organizations; and enhancing public outreach. It concludes that the WTO has achieved much over its first twenty years but the success of the WTO has inevitably given rise to new challenges.
The World Trade Organization and Food Security in West Africa
Author: Godwin S. Ichimi
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published:
Total Pages: 243
ISBN-13: 3031538811
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe World Trading System
Author: Jeffrey J. Schott
Publisher: Peterson Institute
Published: 1996
Total Pages: 356
ISBN-13: 9780881322354
DOWNLOAD EBOOKComprises a collection of papers and comments which discuss challenges confronting the World Trade Organization (WTO). Analyses the implementation of WTO agreements and unfinished business from the Uruguay Round, the impact of proliferating regionalism, the desirability of expending the WTO agenda to "new" issues, and institutional issues such as WTO accession and linkages with other international institutions.
Least Developed Countries and the WTO
Author: H. Hawthorne
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2013-05-07
Total Pages: 183
ISBN-13: 1137269774
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA norm of special treatment for LDCs, created by the UN, has spread to various international organisations including the WTO. Within the WTO evidence of the institutionalization of the norm can be found both in the agreements and legal documents and the way in which the LDCs have been treated by other states. Helen Hawthorne investigates how norms impact on negotiations in international organisations. She shows that few studies of international organisations focus on the role of the weaker states in the organization, the majority focus either on the major states or the emerging economies. By ignoring the role of the poorer, weaker states in the GATT/WTO we are ignoring the history of these states in the organisation and do not get a true picture of the organization, how it operates in relation to them and their impact on the organisation.
Democratizing Foreign Policy?
Author: Philip Nel
Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2004
Total Pages: 242
ISBN-13: 9780739105856
DOWNLOAD EBOOKAre ordinary citizens capable of shaping foreign policy? To answer this question, fifteen established and emerging scholars use South Africa as a case study to assess the extent to which democratic consolidation can be translated into the realm of foreign policy. Contributors discuss the South African Development Community as an arena of transnational democracy, the impact of European Union trade policy, and the significance of South Africa's controversial 'arms deals' as they explore the opportunities and constraints facing recently democratized societies in the Southern Hemisphere. Democratizing Foreign Policy? Lessons from South Africa provides a broad-ranging assessment--investigating conceptual issues regarding the role of women, think tanks, civil society, labor movements, and the impact of globalization upon the process of foreign policy making--of the opportunities and challenges involved in opening the process of foreign policy making to civil society and the need to do so if the developing world is to better manage the complexities of globalization.
Efficiency, Equity, and Legitimacy
Author: Roger B. Porter
Publisher: Brookings Institution Press
Published: 2001
Total Pages: 468
ISBN-13: 9780815771630
DOWNLOAD EBOOKDespite its widely acknowledged contribution to global prosperity over the past half century, the movement toward further liberalization has increasingly been challenged. This collection of essays examine several key issues at the heart of the debate over the multilateral trading system.
Challenges to Globalization
Author: Robert E. Baldwin
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Published: 2007-11-01
Total Pages: 560
ISBN-13: 0226036553
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPeople passionately disagree about the nature of the globalization process. The failure of both the 1999 and 2003 World Trade Organization's (WTO) ministerial conferences in Seattle and Cancun, respectively, have highlighted the tensions among official, international organizations like the WTO, the International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, nongovernmental and private sector organizations, and some developing country governments. These tensions are commonly attributed to longstanding disagreements over such issues as labor rights, environmental standards, and tariff-cutting rules. In addition, developing countries are increasingly resentful of the burdens of adjustment placed on them that they argue are not matched by commensurate commitments from developed countries. Challenges to Globalization evaluates the arguments of pro-globalists and anti-globalists regarding issues such as globalization's relationship to democracy, its impact on the environment and on labor markets including the brain drain, sweat shop labor, wage levels, and changes in production processes, and the associated expansion of trade and its effects on prices. Baldwin, Winters, and the contributors to this volume look at multinational firms, foreign investment, and mergers and acquisitions and present surprising findings that often run counter to the claim that multinational firms primarily seek countries with low wage labor. The book closes with papers on financial opening and on the relationship between international economic policies and national economic growth rates.
