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.

A comprehensive textbook account of the economics, institutional mechanics and politics of the world trading system. This third edition has been expanded and updated to cover developments in the WTO since its formation, including the Doha Round, presenting the essentials of trade negotiations and the WTO's rules and disciplines.

Deals with the lofty ambitions of the controversial World Trade Organization - and thereby, of globalization itself - and explains why free trade is not the answer to poverty and inequity.

This book is the first attempt to suggest a comprehensive modification of the current GATT/WTO disciplines to better facilitate development in impoverished countries.

This book chronicles how a controversial set of policy assumptions about the Japanese economy, known as revisionism, rose to become the basis of the trade policy approach of the Clinton administration, and details how Japan refused to accept US trade solutions and fought to discredit revisionism.

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Offers a new perspective on the roles of the state and multilateral corporations in changing patterns of international trade.

Offers a new perspective on the roles of the state and multilateral corporations in changing patterns of international trade.

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.

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.