World Economy

This is the seventeenth volume in an annual series in which leading
economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major
developments in trade and trade policy.

• Examines key issues pertinent to the multinational trading
  system, as well as regional trade arrangements and policy
  developments at the national level

• Provides up-to-date assessments of the World Trade
  Organization's current Trade Policy Reviews

• A vital resource for researchers, analysts and policy-advisors
  interested in trade policy and other open economy issues

• Analyses global trade policy in Turkey, China and The Dominican
  Republic, and a survey by Tarlok Singh questions whether
  international trade does cause economic growth

• Includes chapters exploring WTO issues, and a section on
  regional trading agreements

Autorentext
David Greenaway is Vice-Chancellor of the University of Nottingham, where he is also Professor of Economics and Research Fellow in the Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and Economic Policy.

Zusammenfassung
This is the seventeenth volume in an annual series in which leading economists provide a concise and accessible evaluation of major developments in trade and trade policy.

• Examines key issues pertinent to the multinational trading system, as well as regional trade arrangements and policy developments at the national level
• Provides up-to-date assessments of the World Trade Organization's current Trade Policy Reviews
• A vital resource for researchers, analysts and policy-advisors interested in trade policy and other open economy issues

• Analyses global trade policy in Turkey, China and The Dominican Republic, and a survey by Tarlok Singh questions whether international trade does cause economic growth

• Includes chapters exploring WTO issues, and a section on regional trading agreements

Inhalt

Foreword vii

List of Contributors viii

TRADE POLICY REVIEWS

1 Turkey: Trade Policy Review, 2007 1

SÜBIDEY TOGAN

2 China Trade Policy Review: A Political Economy Approach
52

CHANGYUAN LUO and JUN ZHANG

3 The Dominican Republic Trade Policy Review 2008 76

AMELIA U. SANTOS-PAULINO

WTO ISSUES

4 Modelling the Extensive Margin of World Trade: New Evidence on
GATT and WTO Membership 92

GABRIEL FELBERMAYR and WILHELM KOHLER

5 How Effective are WTO Disciplines on Domestic Support and
Market Access for Agriculture? 131

DAVID BLANDFORD, IVAR GAASLAND, ROBERTO GARCIA and ERLING
VÅRDAL

6 Why is the Doha Development Agenda Failing? And What Can Be
Done? A Computable General Equilibrium-Game Theoretical
Approach 147

ANTOINE BOUËT and DAVID LABORDE

SURVEY

7 Does International Trade Cause Economic Growth? A
Survey 176

TARLOK SINGH

REGIONAL TRADING AGREEMENTS

8 Beyond the WTO? An Anatomy of EU and US Preferential
Trade Agreements 223

HENRIK HORN, PETROS C. MAVROIDIS and ANDRÉ
SAPIR

9 Third-country Effects of Regional Trade Agreements
247

CAROLINE FREUND

10 Dispensing with NAFTA Rules of Origin? Some Policy
Options 264

PATRICK GEORGES

Index 296