The economics of regional trading arrangements / Richard Pomfret.
By: Pomfret, Richard W. T.
Material type: BookPublisher: Oxford, UK : New York : Clarendon Press, Oxford University Press, 1997Description: xiv, 440 p. ; 23 cm. + hbk.ISBN: 0198233353.Subject(s): Trade blocs | Commercial policyDDC classification: 382.9Item type | Current library | Call number | Copy number | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds |
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General Lending | MTU Bishopstown Library Store Item | 382.9 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | 1 | Available | 00016234 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Regionalism became a major issue in international commercial diplomacy during the 1990s. The European Union's 1992 program, the formation of NAFTA, and attempts to form or strengthen regional trading arrangements in South America, southern Africa, and Southeast Asia were all viewed as challenges to the nondiscrimination principle that had been the cornerstone of the postwar international trading system. This book provides a unified analysis of policies which discriminate among trading partners, featuring ample treatments of both history and theory as well as a review of empirical studies.
Bibliography: p. 403-435. - Includes index.
Table of contents provided by Syndetics
- List of tables
- List of figures
- Abbreviations
- 1 Introduction
- Part I History
- Introduction to Part I
- 2 Evolution of the Most-Favoured Nation Principle up to 1929
- 3 Commercial Policies in the 1930s
- 4 Non-discrimination in the GATT
- 5 Discrimination in International Trade, 1947-1985
- 6 Regionalism versus Multilateralism during the Uruguay Round
- 7 Regionalism and the World Trade Organization
- Part II Theory
- Introduction to Part II
- 8 The Mainstream from Viner to the JCM Proposition
- 9 Extending the Model
- 10 The New Regionalism
- 11 Numbers and Geography
- Part III Empirical Evidence
- Introduction to Part III
- 12 Western European Integration
- 13 North America
- 14 Other Free Trade Areas and Customs Unions
- 15 Trade Preferences for Developing Countries
- 16 Global Issues