Title Monitoring international trade policy : a new agenda for reviving the Doha Round / edited by Bruce Blonigen

Published London : Centre for Economic Policy Research, 2008 London : Centre for Economic Policy Research, [2008] ©2008

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Description xv, 63 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 25 cm Contents Introduction and summary / Bruce Blonigen -- 1. Reviving the Doha Round : the agenda for the developed countries / Patrick Messerlin -- 2. Reviving the Doha Round : the agenda for the developing countries / Alan Deardorff, Robert Stern and John Whalley -- 3. Services : a "deal-maker" in the Doha Round? / Philippa Dee and Christopher Findlay Summary This book presents penetrating insights from some of the world's leading trade policy scholars on the difficulties facing the world trade system in general, and the Doha Round trade negotiations in particular. The long-run trends that WTO members must simply come to grips with before meaningful progress can be made include: * Rounds need to be shorter, and this is likely to be achieved by focusing on core principles such as market access and the wider application of simple rules. * New issues, such as services, are much more complicated than simple trade liberalisation of manufacturing sectors and are likely to require prior domestic changes before trade liberalisation is beneficial. * Successful outcomes for developing countries come not only from trade liberalisation concessions made by the developed world, but also by the develA--oping countries themselves. * PTAs should be viewed with caution, though not seen as a necessarily evil. But if the WTO and its members cannot solve the key issues, there is likely to be much more activity in PTAs and the WTO will be in danger of becoming obA--solete in furthering trade liberalisation Notes Edited by Bruce Blonigen Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 62-63) Subject World Trade Organization. SUBJECT Doha Development Agenda (2001- ) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/no2006003896 Subject Commercial policy. Foreign trade regulation. International economic relations. International trade. Author Blonigen, Bruce A. (Bruce Aloysius), editor Deardorff, Alan V., author Dee, Philippa S., author Findlay, Christopher C. (Christopher Charles), author Messerlin, Patrick A., author Stern, Robert M. (Robert Mitchell), 1927-2015, author Whalley, John, author Centre for Economic Policy Research (Great Britain) Universität Kiel. Institut für Weltwirtschaft. ISBN 1898128987 9781898128984

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