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dc.contributor.authorBhala, Raj
dc.date.accessioned2014-05-07T17:27:56Z
dc.date.available2014-05-07T17:27:56Z
dc.date.issued2014-04
dc.identifier.citationManchester Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2014.
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1808/13632
dc.description.abstractThe Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) could be the most economically and politically significant free trade agreement (FTA) in the Asia-Pacific region. Conceived in 2006 by just four small countries, it now embraces 12 that account for 40 percent of global Gross Domestic Product (GDP). It looks to be a 21st century accord in terms of the breadth and depth of trade barriers it identifies and disciplines. But, with plenty of likely exceptions, TPP appears to fall short of a ‘free’ trade accord in the Neo-Classical Economic sense. It seems to manage trade in sensitive sectors. Worse yet, negotiated in an almost shamefully non-transparent manner, TPP may well advance an American corporate agenda, with insufficient regard to the most pressing matter in the Asia-Pacific region: poverty alleviation.
dc.language.isoen_US
dc.publisherManchester Journal of International Economic Law
dc.relation.isversionofhttp://ssrn.com/abstract=2427377
dc.subjectTrans-pacific partnership
dc.subjectFree trade agreement
dc.subjectTpp
dc.subjectFTA
dc.subjectAsia-pacific
dc.subjectNeo-classical economics
dc.titleTrans-Pacific Partnership or Trampling Poor Partners? A Tentative Critical Review
dc.typeArticle
kusw.kuauthorBhala, Raj
kusw.kudepartmentLaw
kusw.oastatusfullparticipation
kusw.oaversionScholary, edited volume
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