Now with an epilogue that speaks directly to the current energy crisis, The Prize recounts the panoramic history of the world’s most important resource—oil. Daniel Yergin’s timeless book chronicles the struggle for wealth and power that has surrounded oil for decades and that continues to fuel global rivalries, shake the world economy, and transform the destiny of men and nations. This up…
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.
After launching the Enterprise for ASEAN Initiative (EAI) in October 2002, the US is actively pursuing bilateral free trade agreements with the member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), including Indonesia. Unlike some key members of ASEAN, such as Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia, and the Philippines, who have started BFTA negotiations with the US, Indonesia is still…
Over the last fifteen years there have been dramatic increases in both private and public intervention in international trade. Traditional barriers to market-based trade such as commodity cartels and tariffs have been augmented by new developments such as the rise of regional trade blocs and the growth of intra-firm trade. This book argues that these changes are large and persistent enough to h…
With the end of the 1990s economic boom, The Race to the Bottom deftly explores how the United States has entered a no-win global competition in which the countries with the lowest wages, weakest workplace safety laws, and toughest repression of unions win investment from the U.S. and Europe. Tonelson analyzes how the entry of such population giants as China, India, and Mexico into the global m…
This book contains about: 1. Developments in the Uruguay round negotiations on trade in services 2. Services, trade and development 3. Women in service: Asian context 4. Trade in services in Malaysia: Construction and engineering, and medical services etc.
This book contains about: 1. Strengthening service sectors in Asia and the Pacific: An overview 2. Professional business services in ASEAN and the Uruguay round trade negotiations 3. Computer software and computer services in five Asian countries etc.
The papers in this volume emphasize the need to integrate the development dimension adequately into the international trading system. Analysing a wide range of issues in the Uruguay Round, the authors identify the specific means by which this concept can be translated into operationally effective measures beneficial to the developing countries. I hope that this volume is helpful not only for ec…
This publication attempts to provide a comprehensive picture of the impact on trade, development and poverty reduction brought about by global labour movement and integration. It attempts to answer the question as to how temporary labour mobility can be better managed so as to contribute to improving peoples livelihood as welfare prospects while at the same time moving closer to achieving of in…