The Trade Policy Debate

2001 ◽  
pp. 30-97
Keyword(s):  
Trade Policy ◽  
Policy Debate

Free Trade and the Widening Gap Between Rich and Poor Countries

2001 ◽  
Vol 8 (2) ◽  
pp. 24
Author(s):  
Kelli Ketover
Keyword(s):  
Trade Policy ◽  
Multinational Corporations ◽  
Free Trade ◽  
Fair Trade ◽  
Well Being ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Poor Countries ◽  
Distribution Of Wealth ◽  
Free Trade Policy ◽  
The Right

The gap between the world's poorest nations and the world's wealthiest nations continues to grow despite the promises made by the proponents of globalization. Increasingly, however, “new internationalists" argue that free trade policy should be reconstituted as fair trade policy. Current policies have only served to strengthen the influence multinational corporations have over the policy debate. The tradeoff has often been at the expense of qualities not easily measured in economic terms such as human rights, depletion of natural resources, and inequitable distribution of wealth. Future trade policy will have to contend with competing forces issuing from those fearing loss of national sovereignty on the right and others concerned with social and environmental well being on the left.

Landlocked or Policy-locked? The WTO Review of Nepal’s Trade Policy

2020 ◽  
pp. 097215092097623
Author(s):  
Kishor Sharma
Keyword(s):  
Trade Policy ◽  
Growth Performance ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Current Policy ◽  
Macroeconomic Policies ◽  
Root Cause ◽  
Policy Review ◽  
Strategic Location ◽  
The World ◽  
India And China

Located between India and China—emerging powerhouses—Nepal is a landlocked country. Despite its strategic location, Nepal’s growth performance so far has been disappointingly slow. It has not yet fully adhered to the World Trade Organization (WTO) rules and regulations, and it faces several challenges relating to prudential macroeconomic policies, governance and infrastructure. It is increasingly evident that Nepal’s own policies and practices are the root cause of its lacklustre growth performance despite its strategic location between two emerging powerhouses, with preferential access to many high-income economies. However, Trade Policy Review: Nepal 2018 by the WTO is disappointingly polite in discussing these challenges and policy shortcomings, which should have been the left, right and centre of the report. Despite these shortcomings, its publication is very timely, given the current policy debate on the problems of landlocked developing countries.

Multiculturalism

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nasar Meer
Keyword(s):  
National Identity ◽  
Race Relations ◽  
National Identities ◽  
Policy Debate ◽  
Prominent Feature ◽  
Religious Minorities ◽  
The Core ◽  
National Question ◽  
Multicultural Citizenship ◽  
Future Status

The purpose of this chapter is to locate the discussion about Muslims in Scotland in relation to questions of national identity and multicultural citizenship. While the former has certainly been a prominent feature of public and policy debate, the latter has largely been overshadowed by constitutional questions raised by devolution and the referenda on independence. This means that, while we have undoubtedly progressed since MacEwen (1980) characterised the treatment of ‘race-relations’ in Scotland as a matter either of ‘ignorance or apathy’, the issue of where ethnic, racial and religious minorities rest in the contemporary landscape remains unsettled. One of the core arguments of this chapter is that these issues are all interrelated, and that the present and future status of Muslims in Scotland is tied up with wider debates about the ‘national question’. Hitherto, however, study of national identity in Scotland has often (though not always) been discussed in relation to the national identities of England, Wales and Britain as a whole.

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