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development-friendly UK trade policy with preferential access to services imports and cumulative rules of origin, as well as … negotiations, Brexit implies fundamental changes in the British trade regime concerning third countries. This starts with a … negotiation of national terms of access for World Trade Organization (WTO) membership and extends to renegotiation of the numerous …
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, one of which is trade integration. Developing countries especially could benefit from greater trade integration with BT … the use of BT in trade integration by examining in more detail five key and, in some cases, linked fields of application …. The first is trade finance, where BT could deliver direct cost savings for exporters and importers by removing the need …
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Development, developing countries are often excluded from global foreign direct investment (FDI) flows. Beyond economic … development. The 2030 Agenda and the Addis Ababa Action Agenda, thus, call for appropriate international frameworks to support … investments in developing countries. In this context, the Joint Ministerial Statement on Investment Facilitation for Development …
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To achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030, developing countries need additional funding. Funding can … USD 2.5 trillion per year for developing countries, according to figures from the United Nations Conference on Trade and … Development. In addition, these countries have to deal with the recent decline in financial flows from international public and …
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development policy. Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030 will in itself require additional financial …-sector funding. Faced with ambitious climate targets and China's growing involvement in development finance, the current debate on … development to the outside world. While all actors agree that the EU's external financing architecture should be simpler, more …
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" climate-policy package. The European Commission had announced this trade-policy instrument under the Green Deal in 2019 as a … abroad (carbon leakage). The CBAM proposal envisages imposing a levy on imports in certain energy-intensive European sectors … mainly about improving domestic competitiveness at the expense of climate-policy effectiveness and development prospects …
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central role in the global climate and development agenda. International- and regional-level initiatives such as the … Briefing Paper derives recommendations for development cooperation, governments and insurers for an enhanced action agenda on …
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To avoid catastrophic effects on natural and human systems, bold action needs to be taken rapidly to mitigate climate change. Despite this urgency, the currently implemented and planned climate mitigation policies are not sufficient to meet the global targets set in Paris in 2015. One reason for...
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With inequality reduction now being officially and broadly recognised as a key development objective with its own … Sustainable Development Goal (SDG 10), there is a need for simple, economical and quick methodologies with which to focus on this … of development cooperation on income, consumption and wealth inequality. This is important, as a rigorous causal analysis …
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difficulties and losses in terms of inputs, harvests, trade and transportation. The new instability could easily spread to other … the design of lockdown measures, depends in particular on the degree of economic development, the extent to which the … poor South should thus look different to those in the global North and in emerging economies. For development cooperation …
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