MGX5730 - International trade policy

Leader: Ms Jagjit Plahe

Offered

Caulfield First semester 2007 (Evening)
Caulfield Second semester 2007 (Day)
Caulfield Second semester 2007 (Off-campus)
Malaysia Second semester 2007 (Day)

Synopsis

International trade policy and its economic rationale; GATT, IMF, WTO, NAFTA, the European Union, APEC and the Uruguay Round agreements; Japan-US trade relations and new issues in international trade policy.

Objectives

The learning goals associated with this unit are to:

• assess the advantages and limitations of the multilateral trading system in terms of: its decision making processes, its agreements (agriculture, services, intellectual property, investment etc) and new issues - (competition policy, government procurement etc)
• explain the recent surge of bilateralism and regionalism and assess the implications of regional trade policies on the multilateral trading system
• evaluate the opportunities and the limitations of formally linking human rights and environmental issues to the multilateral trading system
• judge whether the current multilateral system treats trade liberalisation as a means to an end (the end being solving the problem of poverty) or an end in itself.

Assessment

Individual assignment (2500 words): 30%
Individual presentation: 30%
Examination (2 hours): 40%

Contact hours

3-hour class