Global Trade

    • Commentary

    Recommendations for the CAFTA Environmental Review

    The U.S. Government must broaden the scope of its environmental review of the proposed U.S. - Central America Free Trade Agreement (CAFTA) to include the agreement’s potential transboundary and global environmental impacts. The U.S. should support its Central American trading partners to conduct their own environmental reviews of the CAFTA.

    • Research

    Trade and Labor Standards: A Strategy for Developing Countries

    Conventional wisdom holds that integrating labor and social issues into international trade regimes will be one of the very hardest trade policy challenges to resolve. Recent developments present a new strategic opportunity for developing countries to link trade with domestic policies that promote poverty alleviation, more equitable income distribution, and better working conditions.

    • Commentary

    U.S.-Russian Cooperation and the Future of Central Asia

    The whole world is closely paying attention to what the US is doing in Afghanistan, because this is the first experience of a war on terrorism. When the military presence will end is difficult to say. But whatever happens, if we cannot demonstrate to other countries that we are able to finish what we started, than the other countries will think that the US is lacking in diligence and resolve.

    • Commentary

    Controlling Corruption: A Key to Development-Oriented Trade

    The economic and social costs of corruption-induced market distortions are widely recognized. WTO members must make a commitment to fight cross-border corruption while building trust and collaboration between industrial and developing countries to achieve broader WTO institutional reform.

    • Commentary

    Misguided Ideas in a Dangerous World

    • Event

    Assessing the 16th Party Congress and China's New Leadership

    Co-Directors and Senior Associates of Carnegie's China Program, Minxin Pei and Michael Swaine, took part in a panel discussion assessing the just-concluded 16th Party Congress of the Chinese Communist Party. They were joined by David "Mike" Lampton, Professor and Director of China Studies at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies. Tom Carothers, Director of Carnegie's Democracy and Rule of Law Project, served as moderator.

    • Commentary

    How Russia Was Won

    • Event

    China and the WTO: An Opportunity for Political Reform

    Most observers examine the extent to which the Chinese government fulfills its WTO obligations. Carnegie's Veron Hung offers a different perspective. She examines a key aspect of China's legal system essential to China's implementation of its WTO obligations-independent judicial review.

    • Research

    China's WTO Commitment on Independent Judicial Review

    China's accession to the World Trade Organization thrusts formidable challenges on Chinese leadership to honor promises relating to the country's rule of law developments. The United States and the international community should seize this unprecedented opportunity by directing more resources toward such reform efforts.

    • Event

    The Political and Economic Challenges in the Kyrgyz Republic

    • Anders Aslund, Marat Tazabekov
    • November 19, 2002
    • Washington, D.C.

    Marat Tazabekov, a journalist and publisher of the Kyrgyz news service AKI press, discusses political and economic reform in Kyrgyzstan.

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