Drabek, Zdenek
Is the World Trade Organization Attractive Enough for Emerging Economies?
1. Introduction
Zdenek Drabek
Part I. WTO Agreements — A Development-friendly Policy Instrument?
2. Development Implications of WTO Accession Procedures
Will Martin
3. Toward A Development-friendly International Regulatory Framework for Foreign Direct Investment
Theodore H. Moran
4. The WTO: A Sweet or Sour Chinese Banquet?
Alice H. Amsden
Part II. WTO Membership and Economic Cooperation (Accession and Impact on Policies)
5. Effects of WTO Accession on Policymaking in Sovereign States: Lessons from Transition Countries
Zdenek Drabek, Marc Bacchetta
6. Policy Anchors: Do Free Trade Agreements and WTO Accessions Serve as Vehicles for Developing-country Policy Reform?
Michael J. Ferrantino
7. Regional Trading Arrangements and WTO Membership: Substitutes or Complements?
Richard Pomfret
Part III. Impact of the WTO on Trade Flows of Goods
8. The Effect of Membership in the GATT/WTO on Trade: Where Do We Stand?
Andrew K. Rose
9. Does WTO Membership Make a Difference at the Extensive Margin of World Trade?
Gabriel Felbermayr, Wilhelm Kohler
Part IV. Broader Costs and Benefits of WTO Membership
10. Who Should Join the WTO and Why?: A Cost-benefit Analysis of WTO Membership
Zdenek Drabek, Wing Thye Woo
11. The WTO Dispute Settlement System: How Have Developing Countries Fared?
William J. Davey
12. Costs of Implementation of WTO Agreements
Sam Laird
Keywords: Economics, Development Economics, International Economics, Behavioral/Experimental Economics, Macroeconomics/Monetary Economics//Financial Economics
- Editor
- Drabek, Zdenek
- Publisher
- Springer
- Publication year
- 2010
- Language
- en
- Edition
- 1
- Page amount
- 378 pages
- Category
- Economy
- Format
- Ebook
- eISBN (PDF)
- 9780230250826
- Printed ISBN
- 978-1-349-36905-8