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Features of IP rights enforcement in Korea and China
Nomura, Takashi; Okada, Saori; Yoshizaki, Takeshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
China, in particular patent rights including invention, utility, and design rights. This paper also discusses some features …
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Toward an inclusive and a little bit ethical world trading system : listening to the voices of the people in LDCs
Sato, Kan Hiroshi; Sato, Hiroshi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Many specialists in international trade have started saying that the era of a mega FTA is approaching. If the three poles of the global economy, namely East Asia, EU and the United States, form mega FTAs, most of the volume of global trade will be covered. That may be fine, but there will be...
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Rethinking special and differential treatment in the WTO
Yanai, Akiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Special and differential treatment (S&D) allows differentiated treatment for developing countries within the WTO system by justifying a deviation from the most-favoured-nation obligation. Since it was incorporated into the GATT (the predecessor of the WTO) in the 1960s, S&D has played a...
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Normative Influences of "Special and Differential Treatment" on North-South RTAs
Yanai, Akiko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2009
Recently, there has been a surge in bilateral and regional trade arrangements between developed and developing countries, which are known as North-South RTAs. Under the current legal system of the WTO, North-South RTAs are governed by Article XXIV of the GATT or Article V of the GATS, which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004988421
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Is the anti-trafficking framework really for the 'victims'? : reflections on Burmese victims of human trafficking and non-trafficked migrants in Thailand
Yamada, Miwa - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
Since the year 2000 when the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children, human trafficking has been regarded as one of the egregious violations of human rights, and global efforts have been made to eradicate it. The anti-trafficking framework...
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Comparative analysis of bilateral memoranda on anti-human trafficking cooperation between Thailand and three neighboring countries : what do the origin and the destination states a...
Yamada, Miwa - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2012
In order to prevent, suppress and punish human trafficking, bilateral agreements between origin of victim countries and destination countries are crucial, because their cooperation involves cross-border activities such as repatriation of victims, extradition of criminals and information-sharing....
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A closer look at the diffusion of ChinaGAP
Lei, Lei - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
To enhance Chinese agricultural production, improve food quality, build consumer trust, and encourage the export of agricultural products, the Chinese government designed the Chinese version of Good Agricultural Practice (ChinaGAP) based on the main principles of the GlobalGAP combining the...
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The voices and protests of China's labour NGOs and their effort to promote migrant worker rights
Yamaguchi, Mami - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
Labour NGOs in China are relatively new organizations that emerged in the 1990s and have spread during the 2000s …. Migrant workers in China are weak both socially and economically and have been lacking ways of voicing grievances and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213713
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Product quality and intra-industry trade
Ito, Tadashi; Okubo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2014
quality improvement of Chinese export goods in its IIT with Germany. We compare the case of China with those of Eastern … between Germany and Eastern European countries is clearly narrowing. However, China's export prices to Germany are much lower … than Germany's export prices to China, and this gap has not narrowed over the last 23 years. This is at odds with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011213714
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Competition of the mechanisms : how Chinese home appliance firms coped with default risk of trade credit?
Watanabe, Mariko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
During the transition period from a planned economy to a market economy in 1990s of China, there was a considerable …
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