African Perspectives on Trade and the WTO (eBook, PDF)

Domestic Reforms, Structural Transformation and Global Economic Integration
Redaktion: Low, Patrick

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

Twenty-first century Africa is in a process of economic transformation, but challenges remain in areas such as structural reform, governance, commodity pricing and geopolitics. This book looks into key questions facing the continent, such as how Africa can achieve deeper integration into the rules-based multilateral trading system and the global economy. It provides a range of perspectives on the future of the multilateral trading system and Africa's participation in global trade and underlines the supportive roles that can be played by multilateral and regional institutions during such a rapid and uncertain transition. This volume is based on contributions to the Fourth China Round Table on WTO Accessions and the Multilateral Trading System, which took place just before the World Trade Organization's Tenth Ministerial Conference in Nairobi in December 2015.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2016
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781316805732
• Artikelnr.: 52990982

Autorenporträt

Patrick Low is a fellow at the Asian Global Institute of the University of Hong Kong where he undertakes research into global supply chains, international trade, and global governance. He was the chief economist at the World Trade Organization from 1997 to 2013. Maika Oshikawa is counsellor of the accessions division of the WTO, in which she is secretary of the Working Party on the Accessions of Belarus and Kazakhstan. Prior to joining the accessions division, she was head of the Asia and Pacific Regional Desk at the Institute for Training and Technical Cooperation (ITTC) of the WTO. Chiedu Osakwe is currently director of the WTO accessions division and adjunct professor at the International University in Geneva (IUG) in international trade, diplomacy, and negotiations.

Inhaltsangabe

1. Introduction and overview Patrick Low, Chiedu Osakwe and Maika Oshikawa;
Part I. The Future of the Multilateral Trading System: Perspectives from
African Policy-Makers and Partners: 2. African Union priorities in the WTO
Fatima Haram Acyl; 3. Economic diversification in Africa's number one
economy Okechukwu E. Enelamah; 4. Trade, investment and development Rob
Davies; 5. Integration into regional and global value chains - how is it
done? Joshua Setipa; 6. From Marrakesh to Nairobi: a force for the world
trading system: from the past twenty years to the next twenty years Moulay
Hafid El Alamy; 7. Building capacity in Africa to facilitate integration
into global value chains: contributions from the ITC Arancha González; 8.
Investment and trade rules: increasing the stock of African foreign direct
investment flows Joakim Reiter; 9. Deepening African integration:
intra-African trade for development and poverty reduction Anabel González;
Part II. Africa's Participation in the Rules-Based Multilateral Trading
System: 10. Rising Africa in world trade? A story of traditional
commodities and new products Michael Finger; 11. Trade policy trends in
Africa: empirical evidence from twenty years of WTO trade policy reviews
Maika Oshikawa, Ukamaka Anaedu and Vicky Chemutai; 12. Preferential trade
agreements in Africa: lessons from the tripartite free trade agreements and
an African continent-wide FTA Stephen Karingi, Ottavia Pesce and Simon
Mevel; 13. African trade integration and international production networks
Bernard Hoekman; 14. Implementing trade facilitation reform in Africa
Marcus Bartley Johns, Christina Busch and Gerard McLinden; Part III.
Selected Development Experiences and Perspectives: 15. Trade rules,
industrial policy and competitiveness: implications for Africa's
development Chiedu Osakwe; 16. WTO accessions, reforms and competitiveness:
lessons for Africa Alexei P. Kireyev; 17. Driving economic growth through
trade policy reforms and investment attraction in the open world economy:
the experience of China Yuan Yuan; 18. Conclusions Patrick Low, Chiedu
Osakwe and Maika Oshikawa.