Posts tagged…China
Poles of the trading system
Fri, Jun 20 2008
Simon Evenett has observed that, on the numbers, at least two of the Gang of Four that has dominated the Doha round negotiations since 2006 are not really 'poles' of global trade although they may become more polar in future. What is also notable about the three developing countries in the 'potential poles' group (Brazil, China, India), says Evenett, is that they have relatively little experience…
Read more…Does trade with China help the poor?
Sun, Apr 27 2008One focus of the economic debate (if that's what it is) in the battle for the Democrat nomination in the United States seems to be on the impact of trade—read: China—on jobs for the low-income group. But that's only one side of the story. The other side is pretty interesting, too.
We examine the role played by Chinese exports in explaining the lower inflation of the poor. Since Chinese exports…
Obama would have opposed NAFTA, CAFTA and China’s membership of WTO
Sun, Apr 06 2008Analysts who criticized Obama's trade policies as protectionist and silly were themselves attacked for taking mere campaign rhetoric too seriously. Jagdish Bhagwati in the FT offered five reasons to be reassured about Obama's trade credentials. But it's impossible to be sanguine about the remarks in this speech to the AFL-CIO in Pennsylvania. If he means them we should be worried by his bizarre,…
What the collapse of the Doha talks means for agreement on climate
Tue, Jun 26 2007
The news that the WTO talks had collapsed again probably deserves the familiar gripes and even the bored yawns that greeted it. But behind this story is a worrying lesson about the potential for agreement on other global challenges, like climate change.
Ignoring the WTO jargon, the collapse of the talks is a story about how the world has changed in the past half century or so since the WTO rules…