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As at today, it is an indisputable fact that the climate is changing and there is a scientific consensus that the world …
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The world is going through strikingly fast and comprehensive transformation. The harmonization of the bilateral or … multilateral regulations and standards all over the world will make market penetrations much easier, or harder. This is also a …
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Despite Egypt’s adoption of an “open-door” policy since the 1970s and a rapid expansion of world trade in recent … 2001, a number of trade liberalization and reform measures, although falling short of opening Egypt’s protected market …
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This paper examines a number of key factors that have an impact on economic development in the Maghreb. While growth indicators have been favorable in recent years, a consideration of the inequitable distribution of wealth and the precarious employment situation paint a different picture....
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proposed trade agreement come from closer cooperation in the energy sector rather than from the economy-wide effects of … reducing trade barriers. The agreement may also have significant adverse effects that need to be taken into account. …
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I test Bates' view that trade across ecological divides promoted the development of states in pre-colonial Africa. My … narrative evidence to show the results are not due to conquest of trading regions. I also test mechanisms by which trade may … have caused states, and find that trade supported class stratification between rulers and ruled. …
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toward untying. However, substantial parts of the multilateral system, notably the World Bank, continue to extend loans …
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of trade between Austria and the ten new entrants to the European Union in 2004. On average, the new goods account for 42 …% of the bilateral trade flow after enlargement. A time series measure shows growth in the new goods margin coincides with … in trade following a trade liberalization. …
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African states up to October 2014. The EPAs are meant not just to liberalize trade but also to promote economic development in … ECOWAS EPAs as example, analyses reveal that tensions are due to both the gap between discourse and practice of EU trade and …
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external trade policy. Neverthe-less, it intensifies the foreclosure of its external borders. Thereby, the escape routes become …
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