Presents an alternative set of inter-related, interdisciplinary perspectives and debates which contribute to overlapping genres and discourses on development economics and trade relations between the EU and Africa.

An examination of how trade can act as a catalyst for poverty reduction in the Asia-Pacific region.

All managers face a business environment in which international and macroeconomic phenomena matter. This book presents a series of case studies taught in the Harvard Business School course, Institutions, Macroeconomics, and the Global Economy (IMaGE) that focus on key events that have shaped the way economists think about these subjects.

Do countries benefit from their Membership in the WTO. This book addresses this question and examines the role of the WTO in the process of economic development of emerging markets and other developing countries.

Combining fiction and non-fiction to explore global issues, this title tackles key concepts. It ties into many of the changes in the primary curricula, and encourages readers to form their own opinions - developing important skills in thinking and evaluating evidence. It is useful as a classroom, library or book corner resource.

Sugar is a commonplace product with a complex background, mainly because of the high degree of protectionism given to the industry and the benefits of ensuring domestic producers stay in business. This book asks why there are such disagreements over trade policy, who profits within the current regime, and where power ultimately lies.

Focuses on US trade building with developing countries. This book describes trade capacity building and discusses the history of Trade Capacity Building (TCB)in foreign assistance. It also includes a discussion of legislation affecting TCB, including appropriations and legislative restrictions on foreign assistance.

A major issue on the agenda of the Doha Round of multilateral negotiations by members of the World Trade Organization concerns how and to what extent policies that affect agricultural trade should be liberalised. This book reviews the status of agricultural negotiations for domestic support, market access, and export subsidies.

Some US producers of the kinds of merchandise subject to antidumping or countervailing duties have complained that USCBP has not been able to collect the full amount of duties owed on targeted imports. One of the 'loopholes' cited was a law that allowed importers receiving goods from new exporters to post bonds instead of cash deposits.

It has always proved difficult to achieve trade liberalization for agricultural products.This book shows how a new Agriculture Agreement in the WTO led to CAP reform, which in turn allowed for greater flexibility in subsequent international trade negotiations.

This book addresses the process of global operations management, from strategic thinking all the way through planning and execution. It demonstrates the implications for the different functional areas involved like operations, marketing, and information systems and contains numerous cases from Europe, the US, Latin America, and Asia.

International trade has shaped the modern world. This book examines the successive waves of globalization and 'deglobalization' that have occurred during the past thousand years, looking at the technological and political causes behind these long-term trends.

This book uses an analysis of the garment industry in South Asia to uphold the predictions of neo-classical economic trade theory, but suggest that there is little to learn from it about business, structural, and institutional practices or critical linkages and partnerships.

Whether it was questioning if NAFTA should be reopened for negotiation or whether free trade agreements (FTAs) with Korea and Columbia should receive Congressional consideration, trade has never been far from the front pages. This book outlines the fundamentals of US trade policy, and gives an analysis of US relations with major trading partners.

This work explores the linkages between the objectives of liberalized international trade, protection of the environment and sustainable development.

Contains papers on regional integration and trade liberalization in Sub-Saharan Africa which apply perspectives and approaches to an analytical framework and methodology for study of the region. This text provides background knowledge for Volumes 2 and 3.

Concerns positive and normative issues in international trade and focuses on methods of applied analysis. The text includes essential theory sections and chapters dealing with imperfect competition and other trade theory topics.

Analyzing South-South trade in a theoretical and political framework, this book looks at the development of South-South trade in manufactured goods since the 1960s. Problems and potentials of trade in a development context are highlighted through a number of case studies.