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A Multilateral Agreement on Investment : Convincing the Sceptics
World Trade Organization - 1998
Much has been recently written about the Multilateral Agreement on Investment (MAI) that has been negotiated by OECD countries. Perhaps even more has been said by the critics of those who would like to see an agreement of this kind extended among other countries. There has indeed been a great...
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Exchange Rate Regimes and the Stability of Trade Policy in Transition Economies
World Trade Organization - 1998
This paper examines the interplay between exchange rate regimes and policies and commercial policy in six transition economies. In all these economies the rate of protection afforded domestic industry by the exchange rate has been eroded by high rates of inflation and insufficient growth in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012884314
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Export Prohibitions and Restrictions
World Trade Organization - 2020
Eighty countries and customs territories so far have introduced export prohibitions or restrictions as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic according to a new report by the WTO Secretariat. The report, which is based on information from official sources and news outlets, draws attention to the...
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A Simple Trade Policy Perspective on Capital Controls
World Trade Organization - 1998
This note discusses capital controls using insights from the trade policy literature. It highlights some key issues that have been neglected in the current international debate on capital controls. Capital is tradable in the same way as many goods and services are. As a result, much of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012884299
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Trade Costs in the Global Economy : Measurement, Aggregation and Decomposition
World Trade Organization - 2021
Proper measurement and aggregation of trade costs is of paramount importance for sound academic and policy analysis of the determinants - particularly those of policy - of economic outcomes. The international trade profession has witnessed signifcant new developments, both on the theoretical and...
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Making globalization socially sustainable
Bacchetta, Marc (contributor); Jansen, Marion (contributor) - 2011
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African perspectives on trade and the WTO : domestic reforms, structural transformation, and global economic integration
Low, Patrick (ed.); Osakwe, Chiedu (ed.);  … - China Round Table <4., 2015, Nairobi> - 2016 - First published
to Nairobi : a force for the world trading system : from the past twenty years to the next twenty years / Moulay Hafid El … -- Rising Africa in world trade? A story of traditional commodities and new products / Michael Finger -- Trade policy trends in … and investment attraction in the open world economy : the experience of China / Yuan Yuan -- Conclusions / Patrick Low …
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Making globalization more inclusive : lessons from experience with adjustment policies
Bacchetta, Marc (ed.); Milet, Emmanuel (ed.);  … - World Trade Organization - 2019
Policies aimed at helping workers adjust to the impact of trade or technological changes can provide a helping hand to the workforce and increase the benefits of open trade and new technologies. This publication contributes to the discussion on how governments can help make international trade...
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Trade policy review: Russian Federation 2016
World Trade Organization - 2016
“Trade Policy Reviews” analyse the trade policies and practices of each member of the WTO. The reviews consist of three parts: an independent report by the WTO Secretariat, a report by the government, and the concluding remarks by the Chair of the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Body. The...
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