Unfinished Business? The WTO's Doha Agenda

449 Pages·2011·4.14 MB·English

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“This book reviews the Doha Round negotiations and offers lessons relevant
to the current stalemate. No important topic is omitted, the information
provided is extremely rich, the calculations are presented in a simple way, and
the analysis is rigorous. The book is a must for a very wide audience – from
negotiators and economists to anyone interested in the fate of the trade
regime which is so critical for the economic recovery of rich countries and for
the continued growth of developing countries.”
Patrick Messerlin, Professor of Economics at Sciences Po, Paris
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Unfinished Business?
The WTO’s Doha Agenda
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WILL MARTIN AND AADITYA MATTOO
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Contents
ListofFigures xii
ListofTables xvi
ListofBoxes xvii
ListofAbbreviations xix
Contributors xxi
Foreword xxiii
Acknowledgements xxv
1. Introduction 1
WillMartin,AadityaMattooandDeborahWinkler
2. AgriculturalMarketAccess 35
DavidLabordeandWillMartin
3. Non-agriculturalMarketAccess 55
DavidLabordeandWillMartin
4. TheWTOAgriculturalModalitiesProposalsandTheirImpact
onDomesticSupportintheEUandtheUnitedStates 69
DavidBlandfordandTimJosling
5. ServicesinDoha:What’sontheTable? 115
IngoBorchert,BatshurGootiizandAadityaMattoo
6. Duty Free, a Round for Free and the Least-Developed
Countries 145
AntoineBouëtandDavidLaborde
7. The Special Safeguard Mechanism: Previous Studies and
PresentOutlook 179
JasonGrantandKarlMeilke
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8. Doha and Trade Facilitation: Lending Specificity to the
MultilateralTradeandDevelopmentAgenda 213
BenjaminJ.TaylorandJohnS.Wilson
9. AidforTrade:Why,What,andWhereAreWe? 233
BernardHoekman
10. PotentialRealIncomeEffectsofDohaReforms 255
David Laborde, Will Martin and Dominique
vanderMensbrugghe
11. SectoralInitiativesintheDohaRound 277
DavidLaborde
12. TheHiddenGainoftheDohaRound:LoweringtheCostof
TradeWarsbyReducingBindingOverhang 299
AntoineBouëtandDavidLaborde
13. What’s the Appropriate Agricultural Protection
CounterfactualforTradeAnalysis? 325
KymAndersonandSigneNelgen
14. U.S.Anti-dumping:MuchAdoaboutZeroing 355
ChadP.BownandThomasJ.Prusa
15. MultilateralismBeyondDoha 393
AadityaMattooandArvindSubramanian
Index 413
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