The Right to Trade: Rethinking the Aid for Trade Agenda - Softcover

Stiglitz, Joseph E.; Charlton, Andrew

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1849291055 ISBN 13: 9781849291057

Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat, 2013

Synopsis

Aid for trade is a fixture in the development landscape, accounting for approximately 25 per cent of total ODA, and is being positioned as a building block in the future development agenda beyond the 2015 expiry of the Millennium Development Goals. In The Right to Trade, Nobel Prize-winning economist Joseph E Stiglitz and Andrew Charlton argue that aid for trade has not delivered on its initial promise.To create a genuinely pro-development trade liberalisation agenda, the authors propose that a 'right to trade' and a 'right to development' be enshrined within the WTO's dispute settlement system; and that aid for trade funds be consolidated into a coherent and predictable framework, where dedicated funds are committed by rich countries to a Global Trade Facility and dispersed through a transparent and competitive process. Together these proposals would help ensure that international trade works for developing countries and will help preserve a development-friendly multilateral trading system.

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About the Author

Joseph E. Stiglitz was awarded the Nobel Prize in Economics in 2001 and is a University Professor at Columbia University. He was Chief Economist and Senior Vice-President of the World Bank from 1997-2000 and Chair of President Bill Clinton’s Council of Economic Advisors from 1995-97.

About this edition

• Publisher: Commonwealth Secretariat
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1849291055
• ISBN 13: 9781849291057
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 50