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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778124603321

Autore

Stiglitz Joseph E

Titolo

Fair trade for all [[electronic resource] ] : how trade can promote development / / Joseph E. Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Oxford ; ; New York, : Oxford University Press, 2005

ISBN

1-280-87014-1

0-19-153747-0

1-4294-9306-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (344 p.)

Collana

Initiative for Policy Dialogue Series C

Altri autori (Persone)

CharltonAndrew <1978-> (Andrew Henry George)

Disciplina

382/.3

Soggetti

International trade

Commercial policy

Economic development

Developing countries Commerce

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [279]-296) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; List of Tables; List of Figures; Glossary; 1 Introduction: The Story so Far; 2 Trade Can be Good for Development; 3 The Need for a Development Round; 4 What has Doha Achieved?; 5 Founding Principles: The Basis of a Fair Agreement; 6 Special Treatment for Developing Countries; 7 Priorities for a Development Round; 8 How to Open up Markets; 9 Priorities Behind the Border; 10 What should not be on the Agenda?; 11 Joining the Trading System; 12 Institutional Reforms; 13 Trade Liberalization and the Costs of Adjustment; Appendix 1: Empirical review of market access issues

Appendix 2: Empirical review of the Singapore IssuesReferences; Index

Sommario/riassunto

How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E Stiglitz and his co-author Andrew Charlton put forward a brand new model for managing trading relationships between the richest and the poorest countries. - ;How can the poorer countries of the world be helped to help themselves through freer, fairer trade? In this challenging and controversial book Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph E. Stiglitz



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