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Development through globalization and partnership in the twenty-first century: an Asia-Pacific perspective for integrating developing countries and economies in transition into the international trading system on a fair and equitable basis
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| Author(s):
Trade and Investment Division (TID)
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| Economic Sector(s):
(1) Global trade policies |
| ESCAP Reference
No.: ST/ESCAP/2054 |
| Division/Office:
Trade and Investment |
| Published Date:
2000 |
| Country:
{Non-country Specific Publication} |
| Hard Copy Price:
N/A
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| The study provides a broad picture of deepening globalization in the world economy, the post-war development experience of developing economies in Asia and the Pacific, the policy choices in a global age and the salient features of the international context for national development policy. It examines the World Trade Organization's (WTO) role in the process of global integration for developing countries, especially on the implementation of WTO agreements. It draws attention to issues on an unfinished agenda, which need to be pursued at the next round of trade talks to enhance the quality of integration of the developing countries into the multilateral trading system.
The study examines regional preferential trading arrangements, trade facilitation and electronic commerce, and transport to facilitate integration. Regional trading arrangements serve as building blocks in a multilateral trade liberalization strategy and contribute to the integration process. Trade facilitation and electronic commerce can be major catalysts for integration, as they can enhance the efficiency of trade and investment. The maritime sector is a principal facilitator of trade flows in the Asian and Pacific region. There is an urgent need to develop adequate road, rail and inland water transport infrastructure and to build up international transport to extend the integration process into the hinterlands. |
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CONTENTS
Foreword
Acronyms and abbreviations
Introduction
Chapter
- Globalization, development and the multilateral trading system
- Background
- Trends and patterns of globalization
- Globalization: underlying forces and new opportunities
- Globalization in the Asian and Pacific region
- Policy options for growth through global integration
- International context for national policy making
- Concluding remarks
- Integration into the multilateral trading system: the role of
World Trade Organization
- Background
- Integration into a rule-based international trading
system
- Fulfilment of commitments under various agreements
- Trade in services
- Trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights
- Effectiveness of special and differential treatment
provisions
- Accession to the WTO
- The Plan of Action and the Integrated Framework for
least developed countries
- Conclusions and recommendations
- Regional trading arrangements, partnership and the
international trading system
- Background
- Regional trading arrangements
- Non-reciprocal trade liberalization
- Private-public partnership in the context of regional
and subregional cooperation arrangements
- Conclusions and recommendations
- Trade facilitation and electronic commerce as catalysis for
integration
- Background
- The need to consider micro and macro policy trade
issues in an integrated manner
- Trade facilitation as a major issue of micro policy
- Role of trade facilitation in realizing the goal of integration
- Electronic commerce as a catalyst for trade facilitation
- Conclusions and recommendations
- Role of transport in integrating economies into the
multilateral trading system
- Background
- An overview of challenges in the transport sector
- Transport and trade
- Issues and challenges in the transport sector
- Conclusions and recommendations
Annexes
- Regional trading arrangements and their membership in the
Asian and Pacific region
- Trade with trade groupings as share of total trade for
members of RTAs in Asia and the Pacific
- Share of trade with APEC in total trade of ESCAP-member
countries and areas, 1992 and 1997
- Key economic indicators
- Private sector inputs into selected regional groupings
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