The Wto, Developing Countries And The Doha Development Agenda: Prospects And Challenges For Trade-led Growth (studies In Development Economics And Policy)

The "development credibility" of the current trade regime in general, and the WTO in particular, is at stake. The Doha Round aims to reverse the brewing scepticism by providing a reliable engine of trade-led growth and development. The essays in this volume identify the key challenges in this regard, make an assessment of the current situation in agriculture and manufacturing market access and evaluate alternative policy options that will make the goal attainable. Front Matter....Pages i-xviii Front Matter....Pages 1-1 The WTO, Trade and Development: An Introduction....Pages 3-9 Developing Countries and the WTO Doha Round: Market Access, Rules and Differential Treatment....Pages 10-33 Front Matter....Pages 35-35 Trade Liberalization, Agriculture and Poverty in Low-Income Countries....Pages 37-62 OECD Domestic Support and Developing Countries....Pages 63-91 Impact of Trade Liberalization on Returns from Land: A Regional Study of Indian Agriculture....Pages 92-129 The Value of Agricultural Tariff Rate Quotas to Developing Countries....Pages 130-157 Front Matter....Pages 159-159 Industrial Tariffs, LDCs and the Doha Development Agenda....Pages 161-189 Developed-Country Trade Barriers and the LDCs: The Economic Results of Freeing Trade....Pages 190-218 The EU Everything But Arms Initiative and the LDCs....Pages 219-260 Export Subsidies: Theory, Evidence and the WTO Agreement on Subsidies....Pages 261-286 Back Matter....Pages 287-321 These are turbulent times for the international trading community, the WTO in particular. Although Cancun failed, * Can the WTO still reassert its development-credibility by ensuring that Doha truly becomes the Development Round? * What should the negotiating strategy of the developing countries be? * Will the political constituencies in the OECD allow reform of their domestic policies that benefit the developing countries? * How big are the regional disparities in the effects of agricultural trade reform in the developing countries? * Are the Preferential Trading Agreements doing enough for the least developed countries? * How much more can the US, the EU and Japan do to increase developing countries' exports? These and other vital questions are addressed in this volume which has been prepared within the UNU/WIDER project on The Impact of the WTO Regime on Developing Countries Using The Latest Analytical Frameworks, This Book Conveys A Comprehensive And Up-to-date View Of Inequality And Poverty In China. It Focuses On Regional Inequality But Also Uses Micro-level Data. It Utilizes Alternative Data Sets To Provide More Robust Results. It Employs The Latest Methodologies To Examine Poverty And Inequality. This Book Explores Trends Of Inequality And Poverty In China, Identifies Their Causes And Assesses Their Consequences, Analyzing In Detail The Regional/personal Variation In Incomes, Measures Of Human Wellbeing, The Gap Between The Coastal Regions And The Interior Regions, And Urban - Rural Disparity. This volume brings together some of the most influential scholars in development economics to explore how to improve the well-being of the poor, how to design effective structures and institutions for poverty reduction, and what the role of economic, political and social dimensions are (and should be) in global development. Issues addressed include globalization; both its governance and a historical perspective; inequality, of income, and the potential for conflict; trade and labor practices in a transitional and developing world; and the natures and characteristics of institutions and markets. --Publisher The current international trade regime is facing a crisis of confidence that the Doha Round aims to defuse. This volume examines the key challenges, assesses the current situation in agriculture and manufacturing market access, and evaluates alternative policy options Explores the complex relationship between the growth of the SME sector and the current policies and institutional, historical and cultural forces that shape its fate