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The events in Seattle and other cities around the world demonstrate
that globalisation and trade liberalisation are currently under
severe pressure. There are also reasons to believe that these
pressures are being translated into measures to increase the
protection of domestic markets. This book addresses what are
arguably the four most important origins of these pressures:
macroeconomic conditions, labour policy, trade and the environment,
and market imperfections.The authors first address the role of
macroeconomic conditions and policies, and demonstrate how these
can have a crucial role in explaining 'slippages' of trade policy.
The second origin of instability is labour policy, in particular
the pressures to introduce universal labour standards. The third
economic origin the book considers is the relationship between
trade and the environment and the attempts to link trade policies
to environmental standards. The fourth origin of protectionist
pressure comes from the presence of various market imperfections
and the extent to which they affect competition. The authors
conclude that multilateral agreements can be extremely helpful in
creating the right environment for equitable trade policies, but
warn that complete success can only be achieved once major hurdles
are overcome in the highly controversial and politically sensitive
areas of labour, environment and competition. Offering a unique
perspective on the threat to globalisation, this book should be
widely read by students, practitioners and policymakers in the
spheres of international trade, transition and development studies,
and competition, labour and environmental economics.
Protectionism is a major concern in the international trading
community. The question that arises is how the emergence of
protectionism can be prevented and whether regional trade
arrangements are a suitable mechanism to enforce liberal trade
policies. This book examines these issues, concluding that the
success of regional trading arrangements in enforcing good trade
policies depends on the quality of the regional agreement and its
implementation--simple free trade area is unlikely to be
sustainable in the long-run without firm commitments of members to
deeper integration.
Protectionism is a major concern in the international trading
community. The question that arises is how the emergence of
protectionism can be prevented and whether regional trade
arrangements are a suitable mechanism to enforce liberal trade
policies. This book examines these issues, concluding that the
success of regional trading arrangements in enforcing good trade
policies depends on the quality of the regional agreement and its
implementation - simple free trade area is unlikely to be
sustainable in the long-run without firm commitments of members to
deeper integration.
This book examines the reforms of banking in Eastern Europe, which
are a key element of the transition to the market in those
economies. Particular emphasis is placed on the "bad domestic bank
debt" problem. The book also analyzes the development of capital
markets in Eastern Europe, and their role in attracting foreign
flows, with case-studies on the former Czechoslovakia, Hungary and
Poland.;Contributions are from senior policy-makers and academics
from Central and Eastern Europe who are involved in the reforms.
The main aim of this book is to assess the importance of
international rules for foreign direct investment and the major
challenges to international harmonization of those rules.
Particular attention is paid to the most controversial and
contentious issues with the view of appraising the prospects for
establishing global rules. The book is divided into three parts;
the first part includes papers assessing the role of national and
international legislation with further distinction being made
between bilateral, regional and multilateral legal frameworks. The
second part addresses regulatory issues of technology transfer,
labor, environment, subsidies and investment incentives, national
security, public services and sovereign wealth funds. The final
part looks at the experience of some international fora in
addressing these issues and at some theoretical and conceptual
problems of rule harmonization. The papers have been written by
legal and economic scholars from leading universities.
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