Emerging Trade Issues for Policymakers in Developing Countries in Asia and the Pacific

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

United Nations, Corporate Author.

Contributor:

United Nations, Contributor.

Series:

Studies in Trade and Development Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

International trade.

Economic policy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (271 pages)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[Place of publication not identified] United Nations Publications 2009

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book examines emerging trade issues facing policymakers in developing countries in Asia and the Pacific. It includes papers presented at a research workshop organized by the United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP) in 2007. The text discusses various topics, such as trade paradigms, domestic trade dimensions, foreign direct investment, trade in services, and the impact of trade policies on poverty and inequality. It aims to provide insights for trade policymakers, researchers, and civil society, drawing on contributions from experts and researchers in the field. Generated by AI.

Contents:

Acknowledgments

Table of contents

List of contributors

Acronyms and abbreviations

Part 1. Rethinking trade for developing countries

Chapter 1. Trade paradigms for developing countries: Some old, some new, some borrowed, some out of the blue

Chapter 2. Domestic dimensions of the trade liberalization agenda: An exploration

Part 2. Trade and production sharing

Chapter 3. Foreign direct investment, intraregional trade and production sharing in East Asia

Chapter 4. Integration of small and medium-sized enterprises in international production networks: The automotive industry in Asia

Part 3. Trade in services

Chapter 5. Measuring and modelling restrictions on trade in services: A case of Asia-Pacific economic cooperation economies

Part 4. Trade, poverty and inequality

Chapter 6. Trade policy, poverty and income distribution in computable general equilibrium models: An application to the South Asia free trade agreement

Chapter 7. Trade liberalization and poverty in Bangladesh

Chapter 8. Is India s services trade pro-poor? A simultaneous approach

Part 5. Managing regionalism

Chapter 9. Assessing the impacts of preferential trade agreements in the Asian and Pacific region

Chapter 10. Multilateral rules for regional trade agreements: Past, present and future

Chapter 11. Reviving the Doha Round: The agenda for developing countries Generated by AI.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

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ISBN:

9789210544313

9210544315

OCLC:

1409680378