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…
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 attempts to create a conceptual understanding on the features and benefits of FTAs proliferating in Southeast Asia. It focuses on the debate of whether such FTAs are a building or stumbling block towards achieving global free trade. The book details the concluded as well as ongoing FTA initiatives of Singapore, highlighting the benefits to the Singapore economy. It further details the…