Globalisation And International Trade

When trade policies are discussed nationally or internationally people as consumers are largely forgotten. Despite their numbers, they do not carry the weight that producers and other lobbies command. Individually, consumers are seldom informed about how the availability, quality, price and choice of the hundreds of items which they buy in the shops each years are affected by trade policy decisions. If they know how much of their household budgets are determined by decisions to protect individual industries and for how little effect they might be shocked. Equally, when it is debated publicity, the benefits that would fall to the consumer are usually ignored. This brief study is an attempt to put the consumer interest squarely in the public arena.
About Author :
Dr. M. Lakshmi Narasaiah has been working as a Professor of Economics, and Special Officer Sri Krishnadevaraya University Post-Graduate Centre, Kurnool, Andhra Preadehs. He is a Post Graudate in Economics and has secured first rank. He has received Ph.D., Degree from Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, in 1987. He has worked as U.G.C.JRF and UGC SRF. Starting his professional career as an Assistant Professor of Economics in Sri Krishnadevaraya University, Anantapur, he has been actively engaged in teaching and research for the past twenty-one years. He was assocaited with the Government of Andhra Pradesh, planning Department in their Centre for planning and Development Studies Projects.
Contents :
The Challenge of Globalisation Globalisation: A Moral Imperative Urbanisation and Globalisation The Trugh About Global Competition: The Economic Myths Behind Globalisation The Nation-State and Globalisation Globalisation and Knowledge Divide Renewing the State World Trade-The Next Challenge International Trade with the Consumer's Money The WTO is Born Who is the WTO? "WTO has Delivered Beyond the Uruguay Round: Opportunities and Challenges Aid Effectiveness as a Multi-level Process Caught in the Debt Trap? The Foreigh Indebtedness of Developing Countires Trading Towards Peace Free Trade as Peacemaker: The Benefits of an Open World Trading System Promotion of Industry and Foreign Investment in Africa Export Subsidies: A Distortion to Free Trade in Agriculture The Role of Financial Markets and the IMF: The Genesis of Aisa's Financial Crisis State Trading Enterprises; Existence of Monopolies in no Longer Justified The Uruguay Round and Agricultural Reforms Revisint Bretton Woods: Reforming the World Trade and Finance System The Trade Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) Agreement and the Developing Countries Challenging Traditional Economic Growth Can Economic Growth Reduce Poverty? New Findings on Inequaltiy, Economic Growth and Poverty What was Wrong with Structural Adjustment: In Defence of a Much-Maligned Strategy Richer or Poorer? Achievements and Challenges of Ethical Trade The Euro for all Consumers in the Euro Area Unemployment in the Poor and Rich Worlds: Different Causes, but Converging Policies? GMOs and the Politics of International Trade Bibliography Index