Trade agreements

In May 1981, members of the Gulf Cooperation Council (GCC), Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia and United Arab Emirates, concluded that forming a regional bloc would help each of them reach various collective goals in promoting security, growth, diversification, and over…

The continuous surge of free trade agreements around the world makes global economic liberalization an important contemporary issue. As a result, the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) Free Trade Area was established in 1992. Has this economic agreement been advantag…

This thesis first examines the overall development of theEEC-China trade and economic relations. It then analyses the changingChinese economy, the non-market economy theory, its application andimplication in EEC-China bilateral trade relations. It is suggestedthat China is no lo…

This dissertation considers three issues in development and international economics: the distribution of food aid in Rural Ethiopia, the effectiveness of development aid, and the effect of preferential trade agreements on multilateral trade liberalization. The first part of this…

Arab countries are attempting to broaden their engagement in the multilateral trading system in a manner that has many implications. Not only have some Arab countries either acceded or are in the pipeline of acceding to the World Trade Organization (WTO), but their new commitmen…