Library acquisitions — May 2018

We are pleased to share our list of selected new acquisitions from May 2018. You can send your requests to Web.Librarian@wto.org.

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Covers	Title, Authors/Editor details, WTO catalogue records email request links	Previews
	Les accords commerciaux préférentiels / Habib Gherari. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927185 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2JinD2k
	Droit de l’OMC, droit de l’Union européenne et fiscalité directe / Marilyne Sadowsky. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927187 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2xN559b
	Droit international des espaces et des télécommunications / Mwayila Tshiyembe. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927217 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2kQFySZ
	Economía internacional : teoría y política / Paul R. Krugman, Maurice Obstfeld, Marc J. Melitz. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927120 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable
	Economic sanctions and international law / edited by Matthew Happold and Paul Eden. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1926696 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2M3hCsb
	Introduction to trade policy / Aluisio de Lima-Campos and Juan Antonio Gaviria. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927144 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: https://bit.ly/2M3Kz73
	Mainstreaming trade to attain the sustainable development goals / World Trade Organization. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927195 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Full text: http://bit.ly/2M1MN77
	Negociación para el comercio internacional / Cristina Peña Andrés. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927221 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2JlTYVO
	Nos quieren más tontos : la escuela según la economía neoliberal / Pilar Carrera Santafé, Eduardo Luque Guerrero. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927142 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable
	El precio de la desigualdad / Joseph E. Stiglitz ; traducción de Alejandro Pradera. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927215 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable
	The price of inequality / Joseph E. Stiglitz. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927209 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2JaTRjU
	Le prix de l’inégalité / Joseph E. Stiglitz ; essai traduit par Françoise et Paul Chemla. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927207 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview unavailable
	WTO agreement on subsidies and countervailing measures : a commentary / Wolfgang Müller. WTO catalogue : http://wto.aquabrowser.com/?itemid=|WTO-Marc|1927148 Request: web.librarian@wto.org	Preview: http://bit.ly/2kPZO7j

 

When trade stops: Lessons from the Gaza blockade 2007–2010

This paper uses detailed household expenditure and firm production data to study the welfare consequences of the blockade imposed on the Gaza Strip between mid-2007 and mid-2010. Using the West Bank as a counterfactual economy, we find that welfare declined by 14%–27%. Moreover, households with larger pre-blockade expenditure levels experienced larger welfare losses. We show that this large decline in welfare may be due to a combination of resource reallocation and reduced productivity. Workers were reallocated from manufacturing to services, and from industries that use imported inputs intensively, or export. In addition, labor productivity fell by 20% on average.

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