Trade and Globalization

Trade and Globalization
Author: David A. Lynch
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2010-08-16
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 0742566900

Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are not new, but their complexity and importance in global economics and politics has grown exponentially in the past two decades. Tackling this daunting proliferation head on, this book provides a much-needed guide to RTAs. Setting current regional agreements in their economic, political, and historical context, David A. Lynch describes and compares every significant RTA, region by region. He clearly explains their intricate inner workings, their webs of collaboration and conflict, and their primary goals and effectiveness. Lynch's deeply knowledgeable study bridges the ideological divides in scholarly and public debate, including economists' emphases on markets and efficiency versus antiglobalization activists' concerns over inequality and social ills. By building a middle ground between micro and macro analysis and clarifying technical terminology, this concise and accessible book will be an invaluable reference for all readers.

Globalization and America's Trade Agreements

Globalization and America's Trade Agreements
Author: William Krist
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press / Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013-11-29
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9781421411682

Globalization and America's Trade Agreements reviews the theoretical framework as well as provides a historic context of impact of the United States’ complex trade agreements of the past 25 years. William Krist analyzes the issues in the recent rounds of GATT/WTO negotiations and in numerous U.S. free trade agreements and discusses how economists have approached trade policy and how historical experience has affected economic theory. He assesses the effect of trade deals on the U.S. economy, the role of foreign policy in trade negotiations, how trade can affect the economies of developing countries, and how environmental and labor concerns affect trade agreements. Trade has been an essential driver of global growth. Krist shows how trade policy has contributed to that growth and outlines what must be done to ensure it can continue to promote our national objectives. This book will serve as a valuable guide for those unfamiliar with trade policy and provides a challenging critique of trade policy for those already knowledgeable in the field.

Globalization And International Trade Policies

Globalization And International Trade Policies
Author: Robert M Stern
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 794
Release: 2009-09-04
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9814477125

This book brings together a collection of papers that Robert M Stern and his co-authors have written in recent years. The collection addresses a variety of issues pertinent to the global trading system. One group of papers deals with globalization in terms of what the public needs to know about this phenomenon and the role of the World Trade Organization (WTO), whether some countries may be hurt by globalization, how global market integration relates to national sovereignty, and how and whether considerations of fairness are and should be dealt with in the global trading system and WTO negotiations. A second group of papers consists of analytical and computational modeling studies of multilateral, regional, and bilateral trading arrangements and negotiations from a global and national perspective for the United States and other major trading countries. The remaining papers include an empirical analysis of barriers to international services transactions and the consequences of liberalization, and issues of international trade and labor standards.

Mad about Trade

Mad about Trade
Author: Daniel T. Griswold
Publisher: Cato Institute
Total Pages: 226
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 193530819X

Politicians and pundits can rage against free trade and globalization, but much of what they convey is myth says the author. He argues that free trade is good for the American family. Among the benefits he discusses are import competition that provides lower prices, greater variety, and better quality, especially for poor and middle class families. Driven in part by trade, most new jobs are well-paying service jobs. Foreign investment here has created well-paying jobs, and investment abroad has given United States companies access to millions of new customers. Trade helped expand the global middle class, reducing poverty and child labor while fueling demand for U.S. products. The author also looks at how the past three decades of an open global economy have created a more prosperous, democratic, and peaceful world.

Globalization, Trade and Poverty in Ghana

Globalization, Trade and Poverty in Ghana
Author: Charles Ackah
Publisher: IDRC
Total Pages: 258
Release: 2012
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9988647360

Citing a paucity of empirical evidence on the poverty and distributional impacts of trade policy reform in Ghana as the main motivation for this volume, the editors (both of the Institute of Statistical, Social and Economic Research at the U. of Ghana) present eleven papers that combine theory and econometric analysis in an effort to assess linkages between globalization, trade, and poverty (including gendered aspects). Specific topics examined include manufacturing employment and wage effects of trade liberalization; the influence of education on trade liberalization impacts on household welfare; trade liberalization and manufacturing firm productivity; the impact of elimination of trade taxes on poverty and income distribution; food prices, tax reforms, and consumer welfare under trade liberalization; impacts on tariff revenues; and impacts on cash cropping, gender, and household welfare; Distributed in the US by Stylus. Annotation ©2012 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com).

The Origins of Globalization

The Origins of Globalization
Author: Pim de Zwart
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 355
Release: 2018-09-20
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1108426999

Reveals how global trade shaped early modern economic, social and political development, and inaugurated the first era of globalization.

International Trade Policies in the Era of Globalization

International Trade Policies in the Era of Globalization
Author: Co?kun ™zer, Ahu
Publisher: IGI Global
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2019-07-05
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1522595686

Though globalization has removed commercial walls between countries and implemented new international trade policies, trade barriers still exist. Due to the various political barriers surrounding other countries, the future of world trade has become uncertain. Understanding these barriers and their implications is imperative to implementing successful foreign trade policies. International Trade Policies in the Era of Globalization provides relevant theoretical frameworks and the latest empirical research findings on international trade and improves the understanding of the strategic role of trade policies and their importance in the global economy. The content within this publication contains reports on global trade, trade wars, and foreign policy. This research is designed for policymakers, government officials, economists, business professionals, researchers, and international business students.

Making Globalization Work

Making Globalization Work
Author: Joseph E. Stiglitz
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
Total Pages: 401
Release: 2007-08-28
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0393330281

Nobel Prize winner Stiglitz focuses on policies that truly work and offers fresh, new thinking about the questions that shape the globalization debate.

Globalization and Trade Integration in Developing Countries

Globalization and Trade Integration in Developing Countries
Author: Ahu Coskun Ozer
Publisher: IGI Global, Business Science Reference
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2018
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781522540328

"This book addresses the difficulties and challenges that developing countries have faced in world trade. It explores different aspect of trade integrations, trade policies, trade corporations in developing countries and related topics"--

Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade

Globalization and the Myths of Free Trade
Author: Anwar Shaikh
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2007-01-24
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1135986959

Written by an international team of contributors this book is a critical examination of the ongoing enterprise of neoliberalism; its history, theory, practice, and most of all, of its outcomes.