This book discusses the questions surrounding the relationship between regional integration agreements and the global trading system. The chapters have been revised following a conference at the GATT and form part of the background material for a special study in the GATT Secretariat's annual report, "International Trade". The book begins by showing that even though inter-regional trade shares have increased for some areas, global economic integration has nonetheless continued. While the minilateral and multilateral tracks appear to have reinforced each other in the past, that need not be the case in the future. The book goes on to examine ways in which the rules and procedures of both GATT and regional agreements complement the global trading system on which the prosperity of all countries - both participants in such agreements and those who remain outside - depends.

Regional Integration and the Global Trading System

Business & Money

Kym Anderson

International

PALGRAVE~MACMILLAN

Which Winegrape Varieties Are Grown Where? A Global Empirical Picture

Nanda R Aryal

Saint Philip Street Press

Agricultural Trade, Policy Reforms, and Global Food Security (Palgrave Studies in Agricultural Economics and Food Policy)

Anderson (economics, U. of Adelaide, Australia and an economist with the Development Research Group of the World Bank) and Josling (emeritus, Stanford Institute for International Studies, Stanford U., Calif.) have collected previously published articles on agricultural trade policy from the period of the GATT to the present. The 19 articles of v.1 concern the growth of agricultural protectionism; domestic policies and international trade distortions; the effects of trade-distorting policies; and the GATT negotiations and agricultural policies that preceded the Uruguay Round in 1994. Volume Two presents 20 articles on the Uruguay Round agreement on agriculture and on sanitary and phytosanitary measures; GATT/WTO agricultural trade dispute resolution; and new negotiations and issues. Eleven of the articles in both volumes were authored or co-authored by the editors. The articles are reproduced in facsimile, with continuous pagination. There is a name index but no subject index. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)

The WTO and Agriculture (Critical Perspectives on the Global Trading System and the WTO series, 2)

Tim Josling

Economics

Edward Elgar Publishing

The International Economics of Wine provides a broad range of studies by Professor Kym Anderson and his co-authors of the international trade dimension of national, regional and global wine market developments over the past quarter-century. Prior to 1990, barely 10% of global wine production crossed national borders, but now that figure is 40%. In that short period, wine has switched from being one of the world's least-traded agricultural products to one of the most traded internationally. This has created an unprecedented boom for consumers, who have also witnessed huge improvements in the quality and diversity of wines available. The chapters in this book shed light on the causes and consequences of the dramatic transformation of the world of wine. An economic model of the world's wine markets, based on newly compiled data, makes it possible to quantify the likely effects of changes in incomes, consumer preferences, tax and trade policies, and exchange rates. Differential changes in technologies and winegrape varieties, and the opening up of cooler wine regions, have also altered comparative advantages in wine.

The International Economics of Wine (World Scientific Studies in International Economics, 73)

World Scientific Pub Co Inc

The International Economics of Wine

World Scientific Publishing

This book brings together core papers by the editor and some of his colleagues during the past two decades on the role of trade openness, especially in farm products, in promoting national and global economic development. The chapters cover four areas: how national comparative advantage evolves in the course of economic growth; how agricultural markets and national and global economic welfare are affected by distortionary price and trade policies; how inefficiently non-trade concerns of societies are addressed using trade-distorting policies; and how the income distributional effects of trade policies drive the political economy of those policies.

TRADE, DEVELOPMENT AND AGRICULTURE: ESSAYS IN ECONOMIC POLICY ANALYSIS (World Scientific Studies in International Economics, 20)

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