Trade beyond Doha: Prospects for Asia-Pacific Least Developed Countries, Studies in Trade and Investment 76

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Abstract: Focusing on the Least Developed Countries located in the Asia-Pacific region, the study explores the impact of different approaches available to the LDCs and their partners in improving their developmental prospects through enhanced trade. The monograph starts with the presentation of trade related data of the 14 LDCs in Asia and the Pacific and the linkage between trade and economic development. Then the problematique of market access is analyzed, followed by a study of the increasing protectionist measures faced by LDCs during the recent crisis. In addition, reciprocal trade liberalization policies (bilateral, plurilateral and multilateral) are explored from various perspectives in order to better understand their differences, interaction and impact on LDCs and more developed countries. The latter is estimated in an econometric exercise using a gravity model. Finally, possible options to improve the capacity of LDCs to tap their trade potential and integrate more effectively into the global economy are discussed, including Aid for Trade.

Keywords: Doha Round; trade; least developed countries; Aid for Trade; gravity; WTO; development; Asia-Pacific; protectionism; preferential trade agreements (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: F1 F13 F14 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2011
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Chapters in this book:

Ch 1 Role of trade in development and overview of Asia-Pacific LDCs’ performance in trade and investment

Mia Mikic

Ch 2 Preferential market access issues

Mia Mikic

Ch 3 The global economic crisis, contemporary protectionism, and least developed countries

Mohammad Farhad

Ch 4 Reciprocal liberalization: Bilateral, plurilateral or multilateral?

Pedro J. Martinez Edo

Ch 5 Aid for Trade: Why, what and where are we?

Bernard Hoekman

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