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Constraining Development : The Shrinking of Policy Space in the International Trade Regime.

Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Thrasher, Rachel Denae
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London : Anthem Press, 2021.
Subjects:
Foreign trade regulation.
Policy sciences.
International relations.
Treaties.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Connect to the full text of this electronic book
Table of Contents:
  • Cover
  • Front Matter
  • Half title
  • Series Page
  • Title Page
  • Copyright information
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • List of abbreviations
  • Chapter 1-8
  • Chapter 1 Constraining Policy Space: How global trade rules conflict with national development goals
  • The Promise and Limits of Free Trade
  • Going Forward
  • Chapter 2 Modern Trade Agreements, Industrial Policy and Development Sovereignty
  • Neoclassical Trade Theory and Market Failures
  • Testing for Policy Space in the WTO and Beyond
  • Goods trade policies
  • Tariffs
  • Special exceptions to the prohibition on quantitative restrictions
  • Subsidies and incentives for export
  • Trade in services
  • Positive and negative list schedules
  • Domestic regulation, local presence and the right to regulate
  • Services and investment: Mode 3 commitments
  • Investment
  • Specific policy prohibitions
  • Establishment, standards of treatment and legitimate expectations
  • Investor-state arbitration
  • Cross-Cutting Issues and Conclusions
  • Chapter 3 Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property, Investment Rules and Access to Medicines
  • Liberalizing Trade for Public Health
  • Patent Protection and Public Health
  • Whether Stricter Intellectual Property Rules Limit Access to Medicines, and How
  • Rules Governing Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights: Flexibilities and Limitations
  • Ratcheting Up Intellectual Property Protections with Regional and Bilateral Agreements
  • Concluding Thoughts
  • Chapter 4 Land Grabs, Land Governance and International Investment Commitments*
  • Investment Liberalization: Putting Limits on Policy Space
  • International Investment Agreements
  • Preestablishment protection
  • Fair and equitable treatment: A "minimum" standard?
  • Indirect and direct expropriation
  • Full protection and security: state responsibility for nonstate actors
  • Enforcement mechanisms: investor-state disputes
  • Land Investments and Land Conflicts
  • State indifference to investment outcomes
  • Leveraging domestic law
  • Reversing course on foreign investment
  • Ex ante disengagement: minimizing investor reach
  • Another African Model
  • Resolving a Specific "Trilemma"
  • Chapter 5 Capital Flow Regulation and Trade Agreements: An Empirical Investigation*
  • Setting the Stage for Capital Flow Liberalization: WTO and WTO+ Rules
  • Policy Space for Preventing and Managing Financial Crises: Gathering the Data
  • Creating the composite score
  • Calculating policy space across the global treaty system
  • The Impacts of Treaty Flexibility in the Global Economy
  • Treaty trends, income and development levels
  • Treaty flexibility, GDP and foreign investment
  • The MFN effect
  • Time trends
  • Conclusion
  • Chapter 6 The Emerging Role of International Investment Agreements in Sovereign Debt Restructuring
  • Debt and Development