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Conference on Trade and Development, the US Treasury Department and the World Bank. These essays report some of the core …
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This book sheds new light on a major issue on the international trade policy agenda--the promotion and defence of competition in globalizing markets. The authors discuss multi-national approaches to competition policy in the WTO, European Union, the Americas, OECD, UNCTAD and CER. They...
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One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with:...
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The IMF, the World Bank and GATT/WTO have had to adapt to changing circumstances in the past 60 years as they guided … the world economy to growing interdependence and prosperity. Now they face several simultaneous challenges. In this book …
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A pollution haven may arise if environmental stringency differs between countries, when capital is mobile, and when trade rules allow firms to relocate and still sell their products to the same customers. This cohesive volume analyzes how country characteristics determine environmental rules,...
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and integration between countries, substantial differences still exist throughout the world. Global Divergence in Trade …
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The handbook on international trade policy is an insightful and comprehensive reference tool focusing on trade policy issues in the era of globalization. Each specially commissioned chapter deals with important international trade issues, discusses the current literature on the subject, and...
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Kei-Mu Yi (2003), 'Can Vertical Specialization Explain the Growth of World Trade?', Journal of Political Economy, 111 … L. Baier and Jeffrey H. Bergstrand (2001), 'The Growth of World Trade: Tariffs, Transport Costs, and Income Similarity …
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, and Expertise: Causation and Precision in Upland Cotton', World Trade Review, 7 (1), 183-209 -- Gene M. Grossman and …-44 -- John H. Jackson (1997), 'The Perplexities of Subsidies in International Trade', in The World Trading System: Law and Policy … (eds), The World Trade Organization: Legal, Economic and Political Analysis, Volume II, Chapter 41, New York, NY: Springer …
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Does free trade contribute to the deterioration of the environment? This important book offers a fresh look at the trade-environment debate from a political-economic perspective. It provides an extensive analysis of the environmental consequences of free trade, and examines how trade affects...
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