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Dr James Scott Research Fellow
Dr James Scott
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James Scott is a BWPI Research Fellow, working on trade, aid and alternative soures of development finance. He holds a BA in Physics and Philosoph from the University of Oxford, an MA in Development studies from the University of Manchester and a PhD in International Political Economy also from the University of Manchester. His principal research area is international trade, in particular developing countries' participation in the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and World Trade Organisation. Since completing his PhD he has also worked on a number of other areas, including overseas development assistance, intellectual property rights, social protection and emerging powers. |
| Key activities at BWPI | Providing research assistance to BWPI's Executive Director David Hulme and undertaking personal research into global poverty. |
| Current research areas | Developing countries in the GATT and WTO, and the prospects of the current round of WTO negotiations providing a pro-poor outcome. James is co-investigator on the BWPI research project examining the impact on poverty of emerging powers 'Beyond the BRICs'. He is also working on the Globalised System of Trade Preferences among Developing Countries (GSTP), the dynamics of South-South cooperation and the interaction between trade agreements within UNCTAD and the WTO. |
| Selected Publications | 'What have the poorest countries to gain from the Doha Development Agenda (DDA)?' (with Rorden Wilkinson), (2010), BWPI Working Paper No. 132, available here. 'South-South trade and North-South politics: Emerging powers and the reconfiguration of global governance', (2010), BWPI Working Paper No. 131, available here. 'What Happened to Doha in Geneva? Re-engineering the WTO’s Image While Missing Key Opportunities', (2010) European Journal of Development Research, 22 (2), pp. 141–153, (with Rorden Wilkinson). 'The Political Economy of the MDGs: Retrospect and Prospect for the World's Biggest Promise', (with David Hulme), New Political Economy 15(2), (2010). An earlier version of this paper was published as BWPI Working Paper 110/2010, available here. 'Developing Countries in the ITO and GATT Negotiations', Journal of International Trade Law and Policy 9(1) (2010). An earlier version of this paper was published as BWPI Working Paper 95/2009, available here. 'Developing Country Participation in the GATT: A Reassessment', World Trade Review, 7(3), (July 2008) (with Rorden Wilkinson). 'The Use and Misuse of Trade Simulations', The Journal of World Trade, 42(1), (February 2008). 'How the Poor Pay for the US Trade Deficit and Why it Matters for the Doha Development Agenda', in Lee, D, and Wilkinson, R, (eds) The WTO After Hong Kong, (London: Routledge, 2007). 'Aid since Monterrey: an Assessment', paper prepared for the Development Finance Unit of the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs, (2008) (with Tony Addison). 'Social Transfers and Growth: A Review', BWPI Working Paper No. 52/2008 (with Armando Barrientos). This paper is available here. |
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