U.S. Trade Policy and Global Development (White House and the World Policy Brief)

Kimberly Elliott

11/04/2008

This White House and the World Policy Brief presents key facts and recommendations drawn from Chapter Seven of The White House and the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President.

The new president will have both the opportunity and the responsibility to reshape American trade policy so that it continues to support economic prosperity without leaving the most vulnerable behind. The starting point for such a policy must be to rebuild broad support for open U.S. trade and investment policies. It will require a long-term commitment by both the president and Congress to improve the education, pension, and health care systems. In the meantime, they need to work together to update the unemployment insurance and Trade Adjustment Assistance programs to reflect realities of the twenty-first century.

Initiatives

• Reforming Trade Preferences

CGD Experts

• Kimberly Ann Elliott

Articles

• Are We Our Brother’s Keeper? Edward W. Scott Jr. Speaks on Fighting Poverty around the World
• A Wider Playing Field, But Still Uneven Terrain (CQ Weekly)
• Stakeholders Clash on Sugar Access in Preference Reform Debate (Inside U.S. Trade)
• A Humane Trade Reform (Washington Post)
• Following the London Summit, What's Next for the World Economy? (Huffington Post)
• NGOs, Business Groups Debate Principles For Preference Reform (World Trade Online)
• Pro-Free Trade Groups Put Together Broad Coalition (Wall Sreet Journal)
• Wal-Mart and the AFL-CIO Agree: The U.S. Can (and Must) Do a Better Job Fighting Poverty, Disease, and Lack of Opportunity in the Developing World (Huffinton Post)
• Bill Removes Obstacle to Trade Pacts (Washington Times)
• David Gergen Sees Risks, Opportunities for Global Development in Obama Administration
• From Doha to the Next Bretton Woods (Foreign Affairs)
• The White House & the World: A Global Development Agenda for the Next U.S. President: Q&A with Nancy Birdsall
• Letters to The Editor: Farm Subsidies: Necessary Evil? (Washington Post)