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


 
Emerging Trade Issues for Policymakers in Developing
Countries in Asia and the Pacific (ST/ESCAP/2526)



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Acknowledgments
List of contributors
Acronyms and abbreviations
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Part I.   Rethinking trade for developing countries

Chapter I
Trade paradigms for developing countries: Some old, some new,
some borrowed, some out of the blue

Hidegunn Kyvik Nordås

Chapter II
Domestic dimentions of the trade liberalization agenda:
An exploration

Biswajit Dhar

Part II.   Trade and production sharing

Chapter III
Foreign direct investment, intraregional trade and production
sharing in East Asia

Nathalie Aminian, K.C. Fung, Hitomi Iizaka and Alan Siu

Chapter IV
Integration of small and medium-sized enterprises in international
production networks: The automotive industry in Asia

Biswajit Nag and Debdeep De

Part III. Trade in services

Chapter V
Measuring and modelling restrictions on trade in services: A case
of Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation economies

Greg McGuire

Part IV. Trade, poverty and inequality

Chapter VI
Trade policy, poverty and income distribution in computable general equilibrium models: An application to the South Asia Free Trade Agreement
John Gilbert

Chapter VII
Trade liberalization and poverty in Bangladesh
Selim Raihan

Chapter VIII
Is India a services trade pro-poor? A simultaneous approach
Prabir De and Ajitava Raychaudhuri

Part V. Managing regionalism

Chapter IX
Assessing the impacts of prefenertial trade agreements in the Asian
and Pacific region

Anna Strutt and Allan N. Rae

Chapter X
Multilateral rules for regional trade agreements: Past, present and
future

Mia Mikic

Chapter XI
Reviving the Doha Round: The agenda for developing countries
Alan Deardorff, Robert Stern and John Whalley

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