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A Fragmenting Global Economy: A Weakened WTO, Mega FTAs, and Murky Protectionism
Aggarwal, Vinod K; Evenett, Simon J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2013
Although the global economy has begun to recover from the 2008-2011 financial crisis, challenges to the world trading system have increased. Several trends are taking public policies further away from the core WTO disciplines of non-discrimination, namely MFN and national treatment. This has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011084204
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The Burden of Proof in National Treatment Disputes and the Environment
Horn, Henrik - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2009
know the motives for policies that are allegedly pursued to protect the environment, but that also give commercial …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005025513
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Trade and Environment in the WTO : Negotiating Options for Developing Countries
Kumar, Sanjay; Chowdhury, Nupur - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2005
The debate on the trade related environment issues has intensified in the Doha Round at WTO. The idea is to ensure … Trade and Environment and the Committee on Trade and Development at the WTO were asked to act as a forum in which the … approach the trade and environment debate in a new dimension. The project based approach instead of the usual list based …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009363930
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Environment Related Trade Barriers and the WTO
Khatun, Fahmida - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2009
This paper looks at some of the environment related trade measures which may appear to be trade barriers at times in … the context of the WTO. It also briefly discusses WTO Agreements on environmental measures and the use of environment … related trade measures. The paper finally articulates the interests of LDCs in the area of trade and environment and how their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009365099
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Trade Liberalization and Globalization: A Survey
Hillman, Arye L. - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2003
This Paper presents a survey of the literature on trade liberalization and globalization. The questions are why trade liberalization occurred, why trade liberalization took the form of reciprocity combined with multilateralism, why the liberalization allows for protectionist policies, and why...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005067625
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Evaluating the Contributions of Regional Trade Agreements to Governance of Services Trade
Stephenson, Sherry; Robert, Maryse - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs support or debilitate the GATS in its governance function as the keeper of … governance by focusing on four different issues : architecture; compliance; ability to promote reforms; and actual impact of RTAs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653138
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Evaluating the Contributions of Regional Trade Agreements to Governance of Services Trade
Stephenson, Sherry; Robert, Maryse - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2011
), as of June 2011. This paper discusses how RTAs support or debilitate the GATS in its governance function as the keeper of … governance by focusing on four different issues : architecture; compliance; ability to promote reforms; and actual impact of RTAs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009653166