Trade and regulatory reform : insights from country experience.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development

Series:

Industry, services, and trade

Industry, services and trade

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Trade regulation--OECD countries--Congresses.

Trade regulation.

Deregulation--OECD countries--Congresses.

Deregulation.

International trade--Congresses.

International trade.

OECD countries.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

160 pages : illustrations ; 27 cm.

Place of Publication:

Paris : OECD, [2001]

Contents:

Ch. 1. Trade and regulatory reform: insights from the OECD country reviews and other analyses / Keiya Iida

Pt. I. Experience and best practices with the transparency principle. Ch. 2. Transparency issues and the WTO Working Party on Domestic Regulation / Dale B. Honeck ; Ch. 3. The experiences of the IMF and its membership with transparency and related international financial reforms / Anne McGuirk ; Ch. 4. Transparency: a business perspective / John Serocold ; Ch. 5. Consumer interest in regulatory and trade policies / Jill Johnstone, Naja Felter and Marcus Lenzen

Pt. II. Experience and best practices in applying the principles of non-discrimination, avoiding unnecessary trade restrictiveness and competition. Ch. 6. International trade as a vector in domestic regulatory reform: discrimination, cost-benefit analysis and negotiations / Joel P. Trachtman ; Ch. 7. Regulatory reform in infrastructure: the Indian experience / S. Sundar

Pt. III. Experience and best practices in internationally harmonised measures and recognition of foreign equivalent measures. Ch. 8. "Deeper" integration in services trade in the western hemisphere: domestic regulation and mutual recognition / Sherry M. Stephenson ; Ch. 9. Harmonisation and recognition: what have we learned? Some preliminary reflections / Kalypso Nicolaidis ; Ch. 10. Internationally harmonised measures and recognition of foreign equivalent measures / Julian Arkell

Pt. IV. Future perspectives. Ch. 11. Keynote speech: trade, regulation and governance / Jonathan T. Fried ; Ch. 12. Regulatory diversity and trade and investment liberalisation / Michael Trebilcock ; Ch. 13. The approach to economic reform in China: an outline / Larry Lee ; Ch. 14. A personal view of the issues / Julian Arkell

Annex: List of speakers and discussants.

Notes:

Selected papers from the workshop "Regulatory Reform and the Multilateral Trading System: Insights from Country Experience", held December 7-8, 2000.

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

9264187286

OCLC:

48240528