The food and financial crises of 2008 and 2009 have pushed millins more people into poverty and hunger, while changing the parameters of international trade. Both crises have also challenged the fundamentals of WTO rules regulating agriculture, which had been designed to combat trade-distortions caused by artificially low-priced food commodities. This collections of essays examines to what exte…
Discussion of the governance of global trade and the multilateral trading system is too often dominated by developed country scholars and opinion-makers, with inadequate attention to developing-country perspectives. Making Global Trade Governance Work for Development gathers a diversity of developing country views on how to improve the governance of global trade and the WTO to beeter advence su…
Relations between developed and developing countries in the international trading system, whose norms, rules and procedures are set out in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), have been reaching an impasse. For a quarter of a century, the developed countries have been allowing, or encouraging, the developing countries to become contracting parties to the GATT without requiring the…
Having passed its thirteenth anniversary, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become one of the most important international organisations in existence. As the only global intergovernmental organisation concerned with tje rules of trade between nations, it is the learding forum for trade negotiations and for the resolution of trade disputes. Its dispute settlement system has attracted enormo…
Given recent seismic upheavals in the world's money markets, an updated edition of an authotitative, reliable textbook on the international law of foreign investment has rarely been so timely. Sornarajah's classic text surveys how international law has developed to protect foreign investment by multinational actors and to control any misconduct on their part. It analyses treaty-based methods, e…
Standards are feature of virtually allareas of trade in products and services. Yet, although standards may achieve an efficient economic exchange, they have discriminatory consequences for trading partners when governments formulate or apply them in such a way as to cause obstacies to trade, thus enrolling standards among the increasingly significant 'non-tariff barriers' regulated by the WTO. …
The Chapters in this volume focus on the issues of central importance in the negotiation and design of the Doha Development Agenda, which was approved at the WTO Ministerial Meeting held in Doha, Qatar, in November 2001, and which launched a new round of multilateral trade negotiations. India played a pivital role in the Doha meeting on its own behalf and on behalf of other developing countries…
ABROAD SET OF ISSUES RELATED TO THE INTERACTION between competition policy intellectual property rights (IPRs) has been analysed in this volume, with particular focus on patents and licensing practices. As pointed out in the Introduction to the volume, IPRs provide important incentives for innovation and can also facilitate the diffusion of new technologies in the economy. Occasionally, they al…
Food security in Asia has generally been defined in terms of three important elements, namely, food availability, stability of supply and access to food. The first refers to the ability of a country to provide enough food for its ever-growing population. The second element concerns the capacity of the markets to provide a stable supply of food. The third relates to the economic and physical abi…
This book is designed for use in courses that focus on the economics of development in Africa, Asia, and Latin America, regions often collectively referred to as the Third World. It is structured and written both for students who have had some basic training in economics and for those with little or no formal economics background. For the latter group, those essential principles and concepts of…