Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of charts, tables and boxes
- Foreword, by Michael Manning
- Preface
- About the authors
- Acronyms
- Executive summary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Performance of Pacific island economies
- 3 Implications on globalization for Pacific development strategies
- 4 Policy reforms to boost development of the Pacific islands
- 5 How can WTO help achieve Pacific island development?
- 6 The supplementary role of APEC
- 7 Choosing the way forward
- APPENDICES
- References
About the authors
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 June 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- List of charts, tables and boxes
- Foreword, by Michael Manning
- Preface
- About the authors
- Acronyms
- Executive summary
- 1 Introduction
- 2 Performance of Pacific island economies
- 3 Implications on globalization for Pacific development strategies
- 4 Policy reforms to boost development of the Pacific islands
- 5 How can WTO help achieve Pacific island development?
- 6 The supplementary role of APEC
- 7 Choosing the way forward
- APPENDICES
- References
Summary
Malcolm Bosworth is Senior Research Fellow in the Australia-Japan Research Centre of the Asia Pacific School of Economics and Management, at the Australian National University. He was for many years a government economist advising on Australian trade and industry policies. From 1989-95 he worked at the GATT (now WTO) Secretariat completing Trade Policy Reviews of member countries. His specialty is trade policy and he has been a consultant to numerous international institutions, including the WTO. He has authored and co-authored several publications on the South Pacific.
Kym Anderson is Professor of Economics and Foundation Director of the Centre for International Economic Studies at the University of Adelaide and a Fellow of the Academy of Social Sciences in Australia. During 1990-92 he worked as deputy to the director of economic research at the GATT (now WTO) Secretariat in Geneva, and since 1996 he has served on a series of dispute settlement panels at the World Trade Organization. He also served on the panel advising the Ministers for Foreign Affairs and Trade in their preparation of Australia's first White Paper on Foreign and Trade Policy (1996-97). He has also been a consultant to numerous national and international bureaucracies, business organisations and corporations. His research interests and publications are in the areas of international trade and development, and agricultural and resource economics. He has published 14 books in the trade policy/WTO area as well as more than 150 journal articles and chapters in other books.
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- Publisher: The University of Adelaide PressPrint publication year: 2009