This volume provides a detailed up-to-date analysis of the strategic issues and policy options of China's accession to the WTO. Quantitative analysis demonstrates how tariff reduction resulting from China's accession to the WTO will benefit the Chinese economy as well as the rest of the world. The book argues that there is no single trade policy initiative likely to result in larger gains in in…
This book contains about: 1. Trade and environment: Strengthening complementarities 2. Trade and environment: How real is the debate? 3. Breaking the deadlock: A positive agenda on trade, environment, and development 4. The WTO dispute settlement system etc.
This book contains about: 1. Why the world needs the GATT/WTO 2. The multilateral trading system: What it is, how it works 3. Implications of the Uruguay round for the world economy 4. Designing national administration for good trade policy practice etc.
In this large-scale ISEAS study, Razeen Sally looks at Southeast Asia in the World Trade Organization, against the background of national trade policy trends post-Asian crisis, sluggish ASEAN economic integration, and the recent high-speed proliferation of bilateral and regional trade negotiations. ASEAN co-operation in the WTO has broken down, with little prospect of revival. Nevertheless, Sal…
This book contains: 1. Fifth AFTA ministerial council meeting 2. Twenty-Sixth meeting of the ASEAN economic ministers 3. Post AEM with MITI-Japan
This book is written in an easily understood style. It explains the background of the origin of ASEAN (Association of Southeast Asian Nations) of which there are 10 member-countries. The author looks at the progress made, as well as the problems that the association faces. This is the 2nd book in the ISEAS Southeast Asia Background Series. Table of …
APEC is an experimental multilateralism, relying not on a large bureaucracy but rather upon national government agencies, semi-autonomous inter-govermental committees and "virtual" associations. Organized around the principles of enforced through monitoring and robust compliance mechanisms. This volume assesses the strengths and weaknesses of APEC's "soft" institutionalism, and it's the credibi…
In many developing countries the presence of non-governmental organizations (NGOs) can no longer be ignored. They are engaged in an extensive array of activities, including philanthropic work to people left out of the developmental process as well as efforts at addressing problems of environmental destruction and other negative consequences of economic development, and efforts to institutionali…
This book is on the break-up of the Soviet Union and its effects on East- west global, regional and private international and transitional organizations, changing role of the United Nations peacemaking operations to a peace-enforcing operation.