Trade, globalization and sustainability impact assessment : a critical look at methods and outcomes

Trade, globalization and sustainability impact assessment : a critical look at methods and outcomes / edited by Paul Ekins and Tancrède Voituriez.

Trade liberalization, as promoted by the World Trade Organization (WTO), has become one of the dominant drivers and most controversial aspects of globalization. Trade sustainability impact assessments (SIAs) were introduced as a means of generating better understanding especially of the social and e...

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Other Authors: Ekins, Paul, Voituriez, Tancrède, 1968-
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; Sterling, VA : Earthscan, 2009.
Subjects:
Commerce.
Globalization.
Sustainable development.
globalism.
sustainable development.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > Marketing.
POLITICAL SCIENCE > International Relations > Trade & Tariffs.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > International > General.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Exports & Imports.
Commerce
Globalization
Sustainable development
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Table of Contents:
  • Trade-induced changes in economic inequality : assessment issues and policy implications for developing countries
  • Why did "development" entrap the Doha Round?
  • Have sustainability impact assessment of trade agreements delivered on "development" issues : a reflexive analysis of the emergence and main contributions of trade SIAs
  • Trade SIAs and the new challenges of trade liberalisation
  • Investment : the context matters
  • Sustainability impacts of liberalising trade in services : assessment methodologies and policy responses
  • The impacts of liberalising trade in commodities
  • The potential role for collective preferences in determining the rules of the international trading system
  • Improving public participation in sustainability impact assessments of trade agreements
  • Identifying trade victims
  • Trade-induced changes in labour market inequalities : current findings and policy implications
  • The value of value chains : spreading the gains from liberalization
  • Collective preferences and international compensation
  • Reducing the impacts of the production and trade of commodities
  • The trade and environment relationships reconsidered : the case of regional trade and climate change.

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