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Does Globalization Cause a Higher Concentration of International Trade and Investment Flows?

World Trade Organization - 1998

It has sometimes been argued that "globalization" benefits only a small number of countries, and that this leads to … greater marginalization of excluded countries. This paper argues that globalization is not necessarily biased towards greater …, marginalization is not intrinsic to globalization. Key Words: Globalization, international trade and investment flows concentration. …

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The Economic Impact of COVID-19 on Women in Vulnerable Sectors and Economies

World Trade Organization - 2020

Women are likely to be harder hit than men by trade disruptions caused by the COVID-19 pandemic and the dangers are particularly acute in developing countries according to a new information note from the WTO Secretariat. The paper points to how governments’ policy responses could address...

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Is Trade Liberalization a Window of Opportunity for Women?

World Trade Organization - 2003

This paper analyses how trade affects women's job opportunities and earnings through five case studies: Mauritius, Mexico, Peru, the Philippines and Sri Lanka. It is found that women's share of the labour force has increased over time and the wage gap between men and women has narrowed. It is...

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Making trade work for women : Key findings from the 2022 World Trade Congress on Gender

World Trade Organization - 2023

In December 2022, the Gender Research Hub organized, alongside the WTO, the World Trade Congress on Gender - the first international research conference to focus on trade and gender. This high-level event brought together eminent trade and gender experts to present the latest research in the...

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Making trade work for women : key findings from the 2022 World Trade Congress on Gender

World Trade Organization - 2023

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Trade and poverty reduction in the Asia-Pacific Region : case studies and lessons from low-income communities

Stoler, Andrew L. (contributor) - 2009

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Knowledge Spillovers through International Supply Chains

World Trade Organization - 2014

Using industry-level R&D and patent data for a sample of 29 countries for the period 2000-2008, we study the importance of international supply linkages for knowledge spillovers. We find a statistically significant effect of supply chains on international knowledge spillovers. We show that...

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United States - Tax Treatment for "Foreign Sales Corporations" : Arbitration Reports

World Trade Organization - 2002

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Why are Trade Agreements more Attractive in the Presence of Foreign Direct Investment?

World Trade Organization - 1998

This paper argues that interests of nationals and owners of home-based foreign capital in the formation of a Trade Agreements (TA) are not antagonistic, except under rather particular assumptions on initial tariffs among potential members. Further, if initial tariffs are endogenously determined...

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Trade in a globalizing world

2008

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