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Trans-Pacific Partnership or Trampling Poor Partners? A Tentative Critical Review
dc.contributor.author | Bhala, Raj | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2014-05-07T17:27:56Z | |
dc.date.available | 2014-05-07T17:27:56Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2014-04 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Manchester Journal of International Economic Law, Vol. 11, No. 1, 2014. | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/1808/13632 | |
dc.description.abstract | The 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.iso | en_US | |
dc.publisher | Manchester Journal of International Economic Law | |
dc.relation.isversionof | http://ssrn.com/abstract=2427377 | |
dc.subject | Trans-pacific partnership | |
dc.subject | Free trade agreement | |
dc.subject | Tpp | |
dc.subject | FTA | |
dc.subject | Asia-pacific | |
dc.subject | Neo-classical economics | |
dc.title | Trans-Pacific Partnership or Trampling Poor Partners? A Tentative Critical Review | |
dc.type | Article | |
kusw.kuauthor | Bhala, Raj | |
kusw.kudepartment | Law | |
kusw.oastatus | fullparticipation | |
kusw.oaversion | Scholary, edited volume | |
kusw.oapolicy | This item meets KU Open Access policy criteria. | |
dc.rights.accessrights | openAccess |
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