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Zdenek . Ed(S): Drabek - Can Regional Integration Arrangements Enforce Trade Discipline? - 9781349728473 - V9781349728473
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Can Regional Integration Arrangements Enforce Trade Discipline?

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Description for Can Regional Integration Arrangements Enforce Trade Discipline? Paperback. Editor(s): Drabek, Zdenek. Num Pages: 277 pages, biography. BIC Classification: KCL. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 216 x 140. .
Protectionism is a major concern in the international trading community. The question that arises is how the emergence of protectionism can be prevented and whether regional trade arrangements are a suitable mechanism to enforce liberal trade policies. This book examines these issues, concluding that the success of regional trading arrangements in enforcing good trade policies depends on the quality of the regional agreement and its implementation - simple free trade area is unlikely to be sustainable in the long-run without firm commitments of members to deeper integration.

Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Palgrave Macmillan United Kingdom
Number of pages
277
Condition
New
Number of Pages
261
Place of Publication
Basingstoke, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781349728473
SKU
V9781349728473
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 15 to 20 working days
Ref
99-15

About Zdenek . Ed(S): Drabek
DAVID BEGG Birkbeck College, University of London, UK LUCIAN CERNAT UNCTAD, Geneva, Switzerland MICHAELA ERBENOVA Czech National Bank, Prague, Czech Republic TOMAS HOLUB Czech National Bank, Prague, Czech Republic MIROSLAV HRNCÍR State Bank of the Czech Republic, Czech Republic SAM LAIRD UNCTAD, Geneva, Switzerland SÁNDOR MEISEL Institute for World Economics or the Hungarian Academy of Sciences, Hungary JAN MICHALEK Warsaw ... Read more

Reviews for Can Regional Integration Arrangements Enforce Trade Discipline?
'The novel contention argued in this book on the basis of Central European experience is that a 'deep' regional integration arrangement is more efficient than the WTO, let alone a shallow regional arrangement, in preventing a costly backsliding into protectionism. The deep arrangement in question is of course the European Union, which all the countries in the region have now ... Read more

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