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


 
Future Trade Research Areas That Matter To Developing
Country Policymakers (ST/ESCAP/2467)



         CONTENTS Page
 
Preface
Acknowledgements
List of contributors
Abbreviations and Acronyms
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Multilateral governance of global trade and sustainable development:
whither the WTO system?


Chapter I:
What can researchers learn from the suspension of the Doha Round
negotiations in 2006? - Simon J. Evenett

Comments:
On multilateral governance and sustainable development
Donald J. Lewis

A note on the future of multilateral governance of global trade
Florian A. Alburo

Regionalism and multilateralism – friends or foes?

Chapter II:
Preferential trade in Asia and the Pacific: Trends and prospects
for multilateralization - Mia Mikic

Comment:
Regionalism and multilateralism: A forced marriage?
Myrna S. Austria

Services liberalization as a development opportunity

Chapter III:
Service trade liberalization as a development opportunity:
the Role of the World Trade Organization - K.C. Fung

Comments:
Development dimension of services liberalization
Gloria Pasadilla and April Lacson

Impacts on human development must also be considered
Yumiko Yamamoto

Making trade work for poverty reduction: reality or fantasy?

Chapter IV:
Trade liberalization and poverty: lessons from Asia and Africa
- John Cockburn, Bernard Decaluw and V ronique Robichaud

Comment:
Does trade mitigate or enhance poverty?
Mustafizur Rahman

Can non-tariff barriers be tamed?

Chapter V:
Taming non-tariff barriers: Can the World Trade Organization
find a solution? - Biswajit Dhar and Murali Kallummal

Comment:
Taming Non-Tariff Barriers: contribution of trade facilitation
Yann Duval

Determining the border for trade policymaking

Chapter VI:
Going behind the border - Christopher Findlay

Comment:
How far should we go behind the borders?
Evan Due

Research agenda that matters to developing country policymakers

Chapter VII:
Report from the Post-Doha Research Agenda for Developing
Countries Workshop

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Last updated: 23 January 2008