Trade and Investment Division
United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific (ESCAP)


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 (ST/ESCAP/2054)



CONTENTS
Foreword
Acronyms and abbreviations
Introduction

Chapter
  1. Globalization, development and the multilateral trading system
    1. Background
    2. Trends and patterns of globalization
    3. Globalization: underlying forces and new opportunities
    4. Globalization in the Asian and Pacific region
    5. Policy options for growth through global integration
    6. International context for national policy making
    7. Concluding remarks

  2. Integration into the multilateral trading system: the role of
    World Trade Organization
    1. Background
    2. Integration into a rule-based international trading
      system
    3. Fulfilment of commitments under various agreements
    4. Trade in services
    5. Trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights
    6. Effectiveness of special and differential treatment
      provisions
    7. Accession to the WTO
    8. The Plan of Action and the Integrated Framework for
      least developed countries
    9. Conclusions and recommendations

  3. Regional trading arrangements, partnership and the
    international trading system
    1. Background
    2. Regional trading arrangements
    3. Non-reciprocal trade liberalization
    4. Private-public partnership in the context of regional
      and subregional cooperation arrangements
    5. Conclusions and recommendations

  4. Trade facilitation and electronic commerce as catalysis for
    integration
    1. Background
    2. The need to consider micro and macro policy trade
      issues in an integrated manner
    3. Trade facilitation as a major issue of micro policy
    4. Role of trade facilitation in realizing the goal of integration
    5. Electronic commerce as a catalyst for trade facilitation
    6. Conclusions and recommendations

  5. Role of transport in integrating economies into the
    multilateral trading system
    1. Background
    2. An overview of challenges in the transport sector
    3. Transport and trade
    4. Issues and challenges in the transport sector
    5. Conclusions and recommendations
Annexes
  1. Regional trading arrangements and their membership in the
    Asian and Pacific region
  2. Trade with trade groupings as share of total trade for
    members of RTAs in Asia and the Pacific
  3. Share of trade with APEC in total trade of ESCAP-member
    countries and areas, 1992 and 1997
  4. Key economic indicators
  5. Private sector inputs into selected regional groupings
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Last updated: 29 June 2001