Beginning with a detailed discussion of the World Trade Organisation and the Uruguay Round and its achievements, this book delves into the causal factors behind the failure to launch the new round of multilateral trade negotiations in Seattle in December 1999. Dilip K. Das tries to determine the precise point reached by the global trading system and map out a way forward, exploring the likely items to be included in the agenda for the new round of multilateral trade negotiations and provides contours for a post-Seattle global trading system. This book provides an excellent overview of the contemporary global trading system and will be very useful to advanced students and professional economists. It will also greatly benefit policy makers and active participants in trade and global diplomacy.
Author(s): Dilip K. Das
Series: Routledge Studies in the Modern World Economy
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 2001
Language: English
Pages: 192
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of illustrations......Page 10
Preface......Page 12
List of abbreviations and acronyms......Page 17
Global trading system: contemporary scenario......Page 20
Seattle and its aftermath......Page 50
The Uruguay Round: implementation and consequences......Page 72
An action agenda: a post-Seattle perspective......Page 98
Implications of the forthcoming round: trade liberalization in a dynamic setting......Page 147
Notes......Page 170
Bibliography......Page 176
Index......Page 186
