incentives of local bureaucrats and politicians who enforce forest policy may be critical to combating tropical deforestation. We …Tropical deforestation accounts for almost one-fifth of greenhouse gas emissions worldwide and threatens the world …'s most diverse ecosystems. The prevalence of illegal forest extraction in the tropics suggests that understanding the …

's conclusions and recommendations, relating to trade and industrial strategy in particular, have to be discounted heavily. …

East Asian crisis through the trade channel, even at a monthly frequency. …

the smooth functioning of 'Factory Asia' - in particular on intra-regional trade; (ii) the unilateral tariff-cutting that … WTO discipline, i.e. to ensure that bilateral trade tensions - tensions that are inevitable in East Asia - do not …

integrated with East Asia, but Europe is not. This paper explores the extent to which economic growth and trade policy … project the world economy to 2010 under various scenarios including Uruguay Round implementation, a transatlantic free trade … agreement, APEC liberalization, and a new WTO multilateral round. The bilateral trade consequences of economic growth and …

trade increased the vulnerability of East Asian countries to external shocks. Two major possibilities are investigated using … available disaggregated data on intra- and extra-regional trade and direct investment: that Asian economies compete extensively …