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Liberalizing climate-friendly goods and technologies in WTO environmental goods negotiations: product coverage, modalities, challenges and the way forward
Zhang, ZhongXiang - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
should represent one immediate contribution that the WTO can make to fight against climate change. This paper presents the … key issues surrounding liberalized trade in climate-friendly goods and technologies in WTO environmental goods … negotiations. It begins with what products to liberalize and in which manner. Clearly, WTO environmental goods negotiations to date …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005108449
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Runda Doha: început fără sfârşit
Popa, Diana - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2011
This paper aims to research existing literature on the collapse of the Doha Round and its causes. The first part is a review of significant paper in the vast literature on the history of international trade from the end of the Second World War until the present, focusing especially, on the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008854398
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Least-Developed Countries' Trade During the "Super-Cycle" and the Great Trade Collapse: Patterns and Stylized Facts
Escaith, Hubert; Tamenu, Bekele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013
LDCs' trade patterns changed in the past decade, thanks to the rebalancing of global demand towards large emerging countries and the resulting cycle of high international commodity prices. This process led to a wider geographical diversification of LDCs' exports but contributed also to a greater...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011260598
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Geographical Diversification of Developing Country Exports
Shepherd, Ben - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This paper shows that export costs, tariffs, and international transport costs are all important determinants of geographical export diversification in a sample of 123 developing countries. A 10% reduction in any one of these factors produces a 5%-6% increase in the number of foreign markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836527
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Trade Collapse, Trade Relapse and Global Production Networks: Supply Chains in the Great Recession (revised)
Escaith, Hubert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Global supply chains reshaped international trade since the 1980s. Their role in explaining the trade collapse that followed the financial crisis of September 2008 was significant. Because manufacture production is internationally fragmented, adverse external shocks affect firms not only through...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009148019
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From overhang to hangover: consequences of protectionist responses to the global crisis for low-income countries
Willenbockel, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
countries raise their import duties to the maximum levels compatible with current WTO obligations. The study complements the … to WTO-rule-consistent protectionism in response to the crisis would have drastic adverse implications for developing … reduce existing binding overhangs considerably and would thus reduce the threat of a WTO-compliant rise in global protection …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005040711
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Emerging Issues and Concerns of African Countries in the WTO Negotiations on Agriculture and the Doha Round
Osakwe, Patrick N. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Since the Uruguay Round, African countries have been concerned about the rules and operations of the multilateral trading system and are beginning to realize that they have to be active in the negotiation process to protect their interests. Consequently, several countries in the region have been...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005617166
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Global Trade Models and Economic Policy Analyses: Relevance, Risks and Repercussions for Africa
Ben Hammouda, Hakim; Osakwe, Patrick N. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2006
Computable general equilibrium (CGE) models are widely used for trade policy analyses and recommendations. Simulation results from these models have also been used as a basis for offering advice to African countries on what positions to take in multilateral trade negotiations. There is however...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005622084
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Criza comerţului mondial
Georgescu, George - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2005
One of the roots of the current global imbalances resides in the asymmetry of the international trade flows under the constraints of maintaining non-tariff barriers and of protectionism revival. Trade liberalization is critical for restoring the financial global equilibrium. The study is...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008685523
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Implications of WTO Accession for Insurance Sector of Laos
Lord, Montague J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
to the World Trade Organization (WTO). It provides a consolidated perspective about insurance services in Laos, with … particular reference to the impact of possible Government commitments to liberalizing the insurance industry as part of its WTO … (GATS) of the WTO. The implications of liberalization for the insurance industry are then considered and reforms supporting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259325