Overview

This book makes an intensive review of the literature on trade liberalisation and its impacts on growth and distribution in developing countries. Moreover, the authors scrutinise some controversial national initiatives that are gradually fragmenting the international economic field. The urgent need that multilateral institutions have to push trade higher up in the list of the political priorities is emphasised. In addition, the biggest producers and exporters of agricultural products have been adopting the genetic engineering in order to improve the factors productivity and the firms profits. The authors examine the potential motivations behind the different policies on GM products adopted by US and EU. Additionally, the welfare effect of bilateral free trade agreement (FTA) in a vertical trade structure is investigated in this book. A three-country model is considered with one country exporting intermediate good and two countries exporting final good. Other chapters explore the major theories of international trade from antiquity up to the neo-classical economics in the latter part of the nineteenth century. Effective trade policies for developed countries today are also discussed, as well as international trade, both exports and imports, in countries such as India and China. It is the authors contention that these two countries pose particular challenges and offer particular opportunities in the evolving trade-development nexuses.

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Author:   Balthasar Hahn ,  Carl Jaeger
Publisher:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Imprint:   Nova Science Publishers Inc
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781608768370

ISBN 10:   1608768376
Pages:   248
Publication Date:   01 August 2010
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Professional and scholarly ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface; The Development of International Trade Theory: From Xenophon to John Stuart Mill; Trade Liberalisation, Growth & Distribution in Developing Countries: Leading Experiences; Evidence of MERCOSUR's Welfare Effects: Overview & Analysis; Impact of Trade on Employment Generation in Services Sector in India; What Trade Policy for the Developed Countries Today: Clusters like Alternative to Protectionism?; Trade, Development, & Poverty Alleviation: Considerations for India & China; To Protect or to Serve? On the Economics Side of the Answer; EU Regulation Concerning Genetically Modified Products: An Issue of Food Security or a Measure of Disguised Protectionism?; Bilateral Free Trade Agreement in Vertical Trade Structure; Index.

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