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The New Regionalism : Trade Liberalization or Insurance?

Perroni, Carlo - 1994

Several of the recently negotiated regional trade agreements (Canada-U.S., NAFTA, E.C.-Hungary/Poland/Czeck and Slovak Republics) contain significantly fewer concessions by the large countries to smaller countries than vice versa. Yet, it is small countries that have sought them and see...

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Assessing the Benefits to Developing Countries of Liberalization in Services Trade

Whalley, John - 2003

This paper discusses the potential impacts of services trade liberalization on developing countries and reviews existing quantitative studies. Its purpose is to distill themes from current literature rather than to advocate specific policy changes. The picture emerging is one of valiant attempts...

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Recent Trade Liberalization in the Developing World : What is Behind It, and Where is it Headed?

Whalley, John - 1989

outward-oriented development strategies. Conditionality in World Bank and IMF lending programs appears important in Africa … result of bilateral pressure from the U.S. and the European Community. Recent strong macro performance in the developed world …

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Coalitions in the Uruguay Round : The Extent, Pros and Cons of Developing Country Participation 1,2

Hamilton, Colleen - 1988

This paper both documents the involvement of developing countries in coalitional activity in the current GATT Uruguay round thus far, and provides a rudimenting evaluation of the pros and cons of the different options for them as far as coalitional strategies are concerned. The main conclusions...

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Global Service Efficiency and the Role of Special and Differential Based Negotiation

Yao, Daqing - 2016

much lower than agriculture and industry. Despite the progress in world commodity market integration in past half century …, the world service market remains highly segmented, which can be seen clearly from the World Bank's STRD index and CHB …

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Regionalization, Changes in Home Bias, and the Growth of World Trade

Whalley, John - 2007

regions on the growth of world trade among major blocs over the last three decades. Existing work focuses on the impacts of … over the last three decades from our global general equilibrium model reduces world trade by 27% compared to actual world … trade in 2004 in our central case scenario. These results support the view that world trade among major blocs has became …

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State-Owned Enterprises, Shirking and Trade Liberalization

Ghosh, Madanmohan - 2000

We explore the implications of trade liberalization in economies with State Owned enterprises (SOEs) and shirking. SOEs are modelled as controlled by the members of the enterprise who determine output and effort levels, while facing output prices and wage rates set by government. Enterprise...

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State-Owned Enterprise Behaviour Responses to Trade Reforms : Some Analytics and Numerical Simulation Results Using Chinese Data

Whalley, John - 2006

We note the absence of prior literature on analytical structures to be used for China and other economies with extensive SOEs when evaluating behavioural responses of SOEs to trade policy and other changes. This is despite both the large empirical literature discussing the productivity effects...

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China's Post Accession WTO Stance

Mallon, Glenda - 2004

We discuss China's stance in the WTO post-accession, noting the many issues with implementation of China's accession terms by 2007. We evaluate how much benefit China can realistically receive from WTO membership given current problems with dumping actions against China and trade restrictions...

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Competitive Liberalization and a US-SACU FTA

Whalley, John - 2003

This paper evaluates a possible US-SACU (Southern African Customs Union) free trade agreement as part of a US approach to new preferential trade agreements characterized by the term competitive liberalization.' This is the idea that competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate...

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