Umfang:
1 online resource (402 pages)
ISBN:
9780821383452
Serie:
World Bank Trade & Development
Inhalt:
Emerging East Asian economies have seen their share of world exports more than triple during the past quarter-century, and intraregional trade has driven this growth. Broad measures of development in East Asia have improved at the same headlong pace. Why push further integration now? Two economic events of historic proportions provide the context: strategic thinking of development in the region following the East Asian financial crisis of 1997-98 and the accession of China to the World Trade Organization. Policymakers interested in a stable, prosperous region are concerned by mildly rising inequality within countries and a widening gap between richer economies and the poorest economies. Increasingly, the development agenda in the region - with its focus on growth, jobs, and social stability - and the trade policy agenda - with its focus on market access and competitiveness - have become intertwined. East Asian policymakers seek to develop a coherent set of economic policies that can deliver stability, growth, and regional integration. Without attempting to be comprehensive, East Asia Integrates offers fundamental strategies that promote cross-border flows of trade, along with domestic policies on logistics, trade facilitation, standards and institutions to maximize the impact of these flows on development and distribute the gains from trade widely. As the authors demonstrate, multilateral and regional trade initiatives must provide a compelling vision of how integration can deliver broadly shared growth and prosperity if they are to succeed. In addition, they must use the momentum offered by trade agreements to address the links between trade on the one hand, and social stability, poverty reduction, and growth on the other.
Inhalt:
Cover -- Title Page -- Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- Authors and Their Affiliations -- Overview -- Why Push Integration Now? -- Context: Recent Trends in Trade -- Widening Opportunities in Trade Arrangements -- China's Role in the Region -- What WTO Accession Means for China: Sectoral Shifts -- What WTO Accession Means for China: Ways of Doing Business -- What WTO Accession Means for the Rest of East Asia: On Balance, More Opportunity -- Regional Interdependence -- Scope for Gains from Regionalism -- Making East Asian Arrangements a Stepping-stone to Global Integration -- Expanding Market Access Globally -- Trade in Textiles and Clothing -- Agricultural and Rural-Based Trade -- Development Orientation for a Behind-the-Border Agenda -- Technical Barriers and Standards: Balancing Trade with Consumer Interests -- Transport and Logistics -- Services Sector Liberalization -- Investment and Competition Policies -- Intellectual Property Rights: Nurturing Domestic Innovation -- Environment and Labor Standards -- Reinforcing Social Stability through Broad Sharing of Benefits -- Impact of Trade Reforms on Households -- Sectors Important to Social Stability: Specific Micro Interventions -- Trade and Stability -- Conclusions -- Endnotes -- References -- PART 1 Widening Opportunities in Trade Arrangements -- 1 China's Accession to the WTO: Impacts on China -- Introduction -- Policy Reforms Associated with Accession -- Nondiscrimination -- Market Opening -- Transparency and Predictability -- Undistorted Trade -- Preferential Treatment for Developing Countries -- Intellectual Property Rights -- Sectoral Impacts of Accession -- Agriculture -- Industrial Products -- Motor Vehicles -- Policy Concerns -- Services -- Restrictions on Service Activities -- Logistics -- Telecommunications -- Financial Services -- Impacts of Reforms on the Economy.
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Weitere Ausg.:
ISBN 9780821355145
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Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9780821355145
Sprache:
Englisch
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