Preise für natürliche Ressourcen stehen im Spannungsverhältnis zwischen Ökologie und Fairness. So dient die Einführung und Erhöhung von Preisen auf der einen Seite dem Schutz der Umwelt, weil sie die Ressourcennachfrage verringern. Auf der anderen Seite drohen sie, arme...

A new kind of international regulatory system is spontaneously arising out of the failure of international "Old Governance" (i.e., treaties and intergovernmental organizations) to adequately regulate international business. Nongovernmental organizations, business firms, and other actors, singly...

Wesentliches Ziel des seit 1995 rechtsgültigen GATS-Vertrages (General Agreement on Trade in Services) ist die "fortschreitende Liberalisierung" sämtlicher Dienstleistungsmärkte. Um dieses Ziel zu erreichen, wird seit 2000 eine weitere Liberalisierung verhandelt. Die vorliegende Studie lotet...

The paper discusses the costs and benefits to be expected by least-developed and low-income ("vulnerable") economies if they accede to the WTO, the impact of current debates about WTO reform on vulnerable economies, and measures to make it easier for vulnerable economies to accede to and...

Food price volatility is one of the major challenges facing current and future global food systems. This book analyses how and why governments responded as they did to the global food crisis of 2007-09 and what their decisions can teach us about policy interventions.

This paper proposes a new perspective on international capital flows and countries' long-run external asset position. Cross-sectional evidence for 84 developing countries shows that over the last three decades countries that have had on average higher volatility of output growth (1) accumulated...