Iran Accession to WTO and Its Effects on Food Industries

Changes of China ’ s agri - food exports to Germany caused by its accession to WTO and the 2008 financial crisis

The purpose of this paper is to investigate changes of China’s agri-food exports to Germany caused by China’s accession to WTO and the global financial crisis in a quantitative way. The paper aims to detect structural breaks and compare differences before and after the change points. The structural breaks detection procedures in this paper can be applied to find out two different types of chang...

Wto Accession at Any Cost

The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) goal of liberalizing multilateral trade does not exist in a vacuum; that is to say, liberalizing trade is not an end in itself. The preamble to the Agreement Establishing the World Trade Organization (“Marrakesh Agreement”), explicitly states that “[t]he Parties to this Agreement, recognizing that their relations in the field of trade and economic [endeavor]...

The Impact of Accession to WTO on China’s Economy

The presented paper aims at providing a comprehensive analysis of the impact of China’s WTO accession. The analysis used a 41-sector, 10-households recursive dynamic CGE model of China. Dualistic foreign trade regimes ordinary trade regime and processing trade regimes, which represents an important feature of China’s foreign trade is introduced in the model. A 1995 social accounting matrix is c...

Wto Accession and Financial Reform in China

Top Chinese leaders regard the WTO accession as the second most important change in China’s economic policy regime, following Deng Xiaoping’s reform and opening-door policy in the late 1970s. This change will have undoubtedly profound impacts on the future course of China’s economic development. There are many discussions among academic and policy circles in China regarding the possible impacts...

China’s Wto Accession and Sustainable Development