Trade, Globalization and Sustainability Impact Assessment: A Critical Look at Methods and Outcomes

Contents......Page 6
List of Figures, Tables and Boxes......Page 8
List of Contributors......Page 10
Acknowledgements......Page 14
List of Acronyms and Abbreviations......Page 16
Trade Sustainability Impact Assessments and the challenges of trade liberalization from 1999 to 2008......Page 20
A comparison between the context for trade negotiations of 1999 and 2008......Page 21
Notes......Page 33
References......Page 34
Part 1 The Context: Trade, SIAs and Development......Page 36
Introduction......Page 38
Fairness interpretation one: Country-level ex-post assessment......Page 40
Fairness interpretation two: Household level ex-ante assessment......Page 45
Fairness interpretation three: Market failures, adjustment costs and intertemporal dynamics......Page 50
Conclusion......Page 57
Notes......Page 58
References......Page 59
Introduction......Page 64
Some countries, more than others, need to negotiate a multilateral trade liberalization agreement: The Bagwell and Staiger framework......Page 66
Why ‘development’ does not fit in the Bagwell and Staiger framework......Page 68
The trade and development missing link......Page 76
Notes......Page 78
References......Page 80
Introduction......Page 82
Trade liberalization and sustainable development......Page 84
Coverage and content of the SIA studies......Page 86
SIA studies for the Doha Round of WTO negotiations......Page 90
The SIA of the Euro-Mediterranean Free Trade Area......Page 93
Impact assessment and the formulation of trade policy......Page 97
Possible future directions for impact assessment of trade policy......Page 98
Notes......Page 100
References......Page 101
Part 2 The New Challenges of Trade Liberalization: Beyond SIA......Page 104
Introduction......Page 106
Trade SIAs and political choice......Page 107
Identifying motives to depart from free trade......Page 109
Implications for trade sustainability impact assessments......Page 114
Conclusion......Page 117
Notes......Page 118
References......Page 119
Introduction......Page 120
Characteristics of investment and investment agreements......Page 121
Sustainability assessments of investment agreements: State of the art......Page 124
Tracing the sustainable development impacts of investment......Page 128
Suggestions for an assessment methodology for investment agreements......Page 131
Conclusions......Page 137
References......Page 138
The challenge posed by traded services......Page 142
Case studies......Page 145
Services and the ‘contextual realities’ of trade negotiations......Page 150
Existing methodologies......Page 152
Existing responses......Page 155
Conclusions......Page 157
References......Page 158
Introduction......Page 160
Part I: An overview of sustainable development impacts from commodity production......Page 161
Part II: The Sustainability Impact Assessment of commodity trade liberalization......Page 168
Conclusion......Page 180
References......Page 181
Introduction......Page 184
The state of the debate on collective preferences......Page 185
Definitions and aggregation issues......Page 191
The WTO legal framework and collective preferences......Page 192
Towards an assessment of ‘European collective preferences’......Page 198
Policy implications......Page 200
Conclusion......Page 202
Notes......Page 204
References......Page 205
Part 3 Breaking the Impasse: The National Policy Framework......Page 206
Introduction......Page 208
Public participation in policy making: Goals, prerequisites and forms......Page 209
Challenges to, and contributions of, public participation in SIAs......Page 212
The state of public participation in SIAs......Page 214
Improving the process of public participation in SIAs......Page 216
Integrating SIAs and trade negotiations......Page 221
Conclusion......Page 223
References......Page 224
Introduction......Page 228
Existing approaches......Page 229
Insights derived from theory......Page 237
A potential new approach......Page 239
Summary and recommendations......Page 242
Notes......Page 244
References......Page 245
Introduction......Page 246
Winners and losers from trade: Theory and evidence......Page 247
Policy implications......Page 252
Policy design......Page 255
Summary and conclusions......Page 257
References......Page 258
Introduction......Page 262
Relevance of a product chain perspective......Page 263
Analysing global product chains......Page 267
Sustainability Impact Assessment of global value chains......Page 271
Conclusion......Page 277
References......Page 278
Part 4 International Cooperation......Page 280
The economic rationale of the WTO’s Agriculture Agreement......Page 282
Optimal domestic support policy......Page 284
The basis of international cooperation in the face of asymmetrical support......Page 286
An international tax on support......Page 291
Conclusion......Page 292
References......Page 293
International trading arrangements and the environment......Page 296
Initiatives to manage the sustainable development impacts from commodity production......Page 303
Designing a more effective mechanism for sustainable commodity production......Page 318
Conclusion......Page 323
References......Page 324
Introduction......Page 328
The economic analysis of the environmental consequences of trade liberalization......Page 329
Are trade and environment linkages affected by the regional pattern of trade?......Page 332
Global value chains, transport, and environmental policy at regional level......Page 335
Can RTAs be used as a lever for climate deals?......Page 342
Conclusion......Page 346
Notes......Page 347
References......Page 348
Conclusion......Page 350
Index......Page 356