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Overview: Perspectives on the WTO Doha Development Agenda Multilateral Trade Negotiations

Overview of the Special Issue prepared under the direction of Guest Editor Robert Stern. Robert M. Stern, the Guest Editor of this special issue of the Global Economy Journal, is Professor of Economics and Public Policy (Emeritus) in the Department of Economics and Gerald R. Ford School of Public Policy at the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Columbia University in 1958. He was a Fulbright scholar in the Netherlands in 1958-59, taught at Columbia University for two years, and joined the faculty at the University of Michigan in 1961. He has been an active contributor to international economic research and policy for more than four decades. He has published numerous papers and books on a wide variety of topics, including international commodity problems, the determinants of comparative advantage, price behavior in international trade, balance-of-payments policies, the computer modeling of international trade and trade policies, trade and labor standards, and services liberalization. He has collaborated with Alan Deardorff (University of Michigan) since the early 1970s and with Drusilla Brown (Tufts University) since the mid-1980s in developing the Michigan Model of World Production and Trade. He is currently working with Drusilla Brown and Kozo Kiyota (Yokohama National University) on the computational modeling and analysis of preferential and multilateral trade negotiations, and issues relating to the scope of the WTO and concepts of fairness in the global trading system with Andrew Brown.

THE EXTENT OF TRADE LIBERALISATION IN THE 1990S: REVISITED*

South African Journal of EconomicsVolume 71, Issue 4 p. 705-728 THE EXTENT OF TRADE LIBERALISATION IN THE 1990S: REVISITED* L. Rangasamy, L. Rangasamy Head of international economics research unit SARB, and Professor of Economics, Investment and Trade Policy Centre, University of Pretoria respectively.Search for more papers by this authorC. Harmse, C. Harmse Head of international economics research unit SARB, and Professor of Economics, Investment and Trade Policy Centre, University of Pretoria respectively.Search for more papers by this author L. Rangasamy, L. Rangasamy Head of international economics research unit SARB, and Professor of Economics, Investment and Trade Policy Centre, University of Pretoria respectively.Search for more papers by this authorC. Harmse, C. Harmse Head of international economics research unit SARB, and Professor of Economics, Investment and Trade Policy Centre, University of Pretoria respectively.Search for more papers by this author First published: 06 July 2005 https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1813-6982.2003.tb00093.xCitations: 16 † The views expressed in this paper do not necessarily represent the views of the respective institutions at which the authors are based. * We are indebted to an anonymous referee for valuable comments on an earlier draft. The usual disclaimer applies. AboutPDF ToolsRequest permissionExport citationAdd to favoritesTrack citation ShareShare Give accessShare full text accessShare full-text accessPlease review our Terms and Conditions of Use and check box below to share full-text version of article.I have read and accept the Wiley Online Library Terms and Conditions of UseShareable LinkUse the link below to share a full-text version of this article with your friends and colleagues. Learn more.Copy URL Share a linkShare onFacebookTwitterLinked InRedditWechat Citing Literature Volume71, Issue4December 2003Pages 705-728 RelatedInformation

Sea Changes The New Cuban Economy

Click to increase image sizeClick to decrease image size Additional informationNotes on contributorsPedro MonrealPedro Monreal is a research economist at the Center for International Economic Research (CIEI) an the University of Havana. This article draws on a paper co-authored with Claes Brundenius, “The Future of the Cuban Economic Model: The Longer View, “presented at the Workshop on Globalization, Changing Paradigms and Development Options in the Third World: Cuba and Vietnam, Copenhagen, June 11-13, 1998.

The UK Food Supply Chain – An Ethical Perspective

“The moral issues generated by the food supply chain demand attention and analysis. There must be an ethical approach balancing profitability with the welfare of life and the conservation of the environment.” Lorice Stainer is a business ethics consultant and Visiting Fellow at Leicester University Management Centre; Alan Gully is Principal Lecturer in Business Studies, and Member for the Centre for Research in International Economics, at Middlesex University Business School; and Alan Stainer is Head of Engineering Management and Professor of Productivity and Performance Management at Middlesex University.

Necessary and Sufficient Conditions for Factor Price Equalization

Although models with factor price equalization are used frequently in both theoretical and applied research in international economics, only sufficient conditions for factor price equalization have been presented in the literature. In this paper, the authors present necessary and sufficient conditions for factor price equalization under quite general assumptions about the technologies of different countries. The necessary and sufficient conditions they derive are consistent with joint production, decreasing returns to scale, and substantive differences in the technologies and endowments of different countries. The authors' results enable them to reconcile the classical approach and the integrated equilibrium approach to factor price equalization.

Power, Passions and Purpose: Prospects for North-South Negotiations, by Jagdish N. Bhagwati and John Gerard Ruggie, eds.

Power, Passions, and Purpose contains twelve original essays and a joint statement by distinguished economists, political scientists, and policy-makers, aimed at exploring new directions in North-South negotiations. Combining the talents of writers from different disciplines, it provides the first substantial treatment of the current stalemate in the North-South dialog, and shows how the situation can be creatively altered.The book addresses a political and economic disjunction that arose in the late 1970s in the world economy. By that time, it was evident that the commodity power, which had given force to the Third World's demands for global negotiations concerning the rules of the international economic order, had vanished. Yet, the passions evoked by the Third World countries' perception of such power and by their desire for political and economic equity had not subsided: They originally informed the need for negotiations and provided a purpose which still endures. These contributions shed light on the history of North-South negotiations and offer a rigorous and imaginative analysis of the alternative course of action that must now be confronted.An introduction by Jagdish N. Bhagwati is followed by sections on Global Negotiations (Bhagwati, John Gerard Ruggie, Albert Bressand, Muchkund Dubey, John Sewell and William Zartman); Power Sharing and Institutional Change (Catherine Gwin); Debts, Finance, and Trade (Carlos Diaz-Alejandro, Martin Wolf, Jere Behrman); and USSR-South and South-South (Padma Desai, Sanjaya Lall).Both editors are at Columbia University. Jagdish N. Bhagwati is Arthur Lehman Professor of Economics and Director of the International Economics Research Center. This book is a sequel to his earlier edited volume, The New International Economic Order (MIT Press paperback). John Gerard Ruggie is Professor of Political Science, Institute of War and Peace Studies.

The Monetary Approach to Stock Returns and Inflation

The effect of monetary policy and inflation upon the ownership claims to real capital has been studied by several disciplines. In financial economics, the major thrust of research has been to analyze empirically the reaction of the stock market to changes in macroeconomic variables such as the money supply and inflation. In the monetary (macro) economics literature, the impact of changes in the money supply and inflation upon aggregate employment, output and investment is often studied. In contrast to the finance studies, this research typically models the structure of the economy's demand and supply functions and solves for equilibrium prices by imposing rational expectations. Finally, research in international economics evaluates the impact of alternative monetary transmission mechanisms (e.g., exchange rate policies) upon aggregate economic activity. Although these research topics seem to be highly related, the various literatures are almost totally isolated from each other.

International Organizations and Soviet Statistics

Abstract The compilation and analysis of economic statistics for the countries of the world by various international organizations is of importance to research in international economics. However, the present situation is that statistics from certain countries, particularly the Soviet Union, when available at all, are not only not comparable with those of the rest of the world, but are issued for propaganda purposes and cannot be considered as statements of existing conditions. The problem which must be faced is whether to discontinue the publication of such statistics entirely in world reports, or whether it is possible to publish them in such a form that their weaknesses are clearly evident.

International Organizations and Soviet Statistics

Abstract The compilation and analysis of economic statistics for the countries of the world by various international organizations is of importance to research in international economics. However, the present situation is that statistics from certain countries, particularly the Soviet Union, when available at all, are not only not comparable with those of the rest of the world, but are issued for propaganda purposes and cannot be considered as statements of existing conditions. The problem which must be faced is whether to discontinue the publication of such statistics entirely in world reports, or whether it is possible to publish them in such a form that their weaknesses are clearly evident.

Research in International Economics by Federal Agencies.

Research in International Economics by Federal Agencies.

Research in International Economics by Federal Agencies. Sanford Schwarz

<i>Research in International Economics by Federal Agencies</i>. Sanford Schwarz