Problem Based Learning

International Agreements and Trade - References for Investigation

Biz/ed has provided the following references for investigation to help you research the problem. These are suggestions only and are not the only sources you may wish to use, indeed, you are not obliged to use any of them!

Web sites

• Millions 'to lose textile jobs' - from the BBC (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/business/4100249.stm)
• New Year shock: millions set to lose garment jobs - summary of Christian Aid's 'Rags to riches to rags' report (http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/news/media/pressrel/0401217p.htm)
• 'Rags to riches to rags' report - from Christian Aid [PDF, 136 KB] (http://www.christian-aid.org.uk/indepth/412rags/Rags_to_riches_to_rags.pdf)
• News and articles on the Multi-Fibre Agreement - from SurfWax News (http://news.surfwax.com/economics/files/Multi-Fibre_Agreement.html)
• Public Seminar Report: Multi-Fibre Agreement - from the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) (http://www.ethicaltrade.org/Z/lib/2004/10/sem-mfa/index.shtml)
• What is the Multi-Fibre Agreement? - from domain-b.com (http://www.domain-b.com/industry/textiles/20041229_multi_fibre_agreement.html)
• Goodbye Multi Fibre Agreement - comment from Dr Madsen Pirie of the Adam Smith Institute (http://www.adamsmith.org/blog/archives/000932.php)
• Multi-fibre pact to help textile sector become $100b industry by 2010 - the effect on the Indian textile industry from the Economic Times (http://economictimes.indiatimes.com/articleshow/1001895.cms)
• The impact of the phasing out of the Multi Fibre Agreement on the Mauritian economy - Bank of Mauritius (http://bom.intnet.mu/apr2003/AGOA%20Bulletin.htm)
• Decent work andinternational commodity agreements - International Labour Organisation [PDF, 38 KB] (http://www.ilo.org/public/english/dialogue/actrav/publ/131/9.pdf)
• Negotiations toward a new international coffee agreement - US view on international commodity agreements from the US Department of State Bulletin (http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1079/is_n2144_v89/ai_7537747)
• International commodity control: retrospect and prospect - from ELDIS (http://www.eldis.org/static/DOC3669.htm)
• Winners and losers in textile shake-up - report by Kaushik Basu, Professor of Economics at Cornell University (http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/south_asia/4294679.stm)
• International Commodity Market Policies - from the Food and Agriculture Organisation of the United Nations (http://www.fao.org/documents/show_cdr.asp?url_file=/DOCREP/006/Y4344E/y4344e0a.htm)
• World Trade Organisation (WTO) (http://www.wto.org/)
• The Theory of Comparative Advantage - Overview - from the International Economics Study Centre (http://internationalecon.com/v1.0/ch40/40c000.html)
• The Principle of Comparative and Absolute Advantage - Biz/ed Virtual Developing Country (http://www.bized.co.uk/virtual/dc/trade/theory/th2.htm)
• International Trade Notes - from Biz/ed (http://www.bized.co.uk/learn/economics/international/trade/notes.htm)
• PowerPoint Presentation on International Trade - Pearson materials on Biz/ed [471 KB] (http://www.bized.co.uk/educators/he/pearson/lectures/trade.ppt)
• In the News on the Multi-Fibre Agreement - from Biz/ed (http://www.bized.co.uk/cgi-bin/chron/chron.pl?id=2254)
• PowerPoint Presentation on Globalisation - from Biz/ed [340 KB] (http://www.bized.co.uk/educators/16-19/economics/international/presentation/globalisation.ppt)
• Child Poverty, Free Trade and Free Markets - Mind your Business feature on Biz/ed (http://www.bized.co.uk/current/mind/2003_4/310504.htm)

Textbooks

• Coote, B. (1996) The Trade Trap: Poverty and the global economic markets. Oxford. ISBN: 0855983515
• Gilpin, R. (2001) Global Political Economy: Understanding the International Economic Order. Princeton University Press. ISBN: 069108677X
• Hoekman, B. & Kostecki, M. (2001) The Political Economy of the World Trading System: WTO and Beyond. Oxford University Press. ISBN: 019829431X
• Howse, R & Trebilcock, M. (1999) The Regulation of International Trade. Routledge. ISBN: 04515184983
• Rafaelli, M. (1995) Rise and Demise of Commodity Agreements: An Investigation into the Breakdown of International Commodity Agreements. Woodhead Publishing. ISBN: 1855731797
• United Nations (1998) Intergovernmental Producer-consumer Cooperation in Commodities in Mid 1990s: A Handbook on International Commodity Agreements, Arrangements and Study Groups. United Nations. ISBN: 9211124425