Making trade sustainable impact assessment more relevant to trade negotiations

Voituriez Tancrède, Ekins Paul, Blanco Hernan, Von Homeyer Ingmar, Scheer Dirk. 2006. Making trade sustainable impact assessment more relevant to trade negotiations. Impact Assessment and Project Appraisal, 24 (4) : 335-342.

Liste HCERES des revues (en SHS) : oui

Thème(s) HCERES des revues (en SHS) : Géographie-Aménagement-Urbanisme-Architecture

Résumé : While trade sustainability impact assessments (trade SIAs) have generated much useful information about the potential impacts of trade liberalisation, they have made very limited impact on trade negotiations, which generate unresolved controversy, if not deadlock. This paper contends that one reason for this is that trade SIAs do not explicitly recognise the motives for countries to resist free trade. Five such motives are identified, with very different characteristics and validity from the perspective of social welfare enhancement and sustainable development. The paper suggests revisions to the trade SIA methodology to help decision-makers better understand the obstacles to trade liberalisation negotiations and whether it is likely that these obstacles will, and desirable that they should, be overcome.

Classification Agris : E71 - Commerce international

Champ stratégique Cirad : Axe 5 (2005-2013) - Politiques publiques, pauvreté et inégalités

Auteurs et affiliations

• Voituriez Tancrède, CIRAD-TERA-UPR Normes et marchés (FRA)
• Ekins Paul, Policy Study Institute (GBR)
• Blanco Hernan, RIDES (CHL)
• Von Homeyer Ingmar, Ecologic (DEU)
• Scheer Dirk, IOEW (DEU)

Source : Cirad - Agritrop (https://agritrop.cirad.fr/538619/)

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