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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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Reform in Basic Telecommunications and the WTO Negotiations : The Asian Experience
World Trade Organization - 1998
This paper examines liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in a number of Asian countries and the role of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in this process. It begins by explaining the working of the GATS as a mechanism for multilateral liberalization efforts. It...
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Financial Services and the WTO : Liberalization in the Developing and Transition Economies
World Trade Organization - 1998
(GATS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). It shows that the negotiations have contributed to more stable and transparent …
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Regulatory Autonomy and Multilateral Disciplines : The Dilemma and a Possible Resolution
World Trade Organization - 1998
A major challenge for the multilateral trading system is to secure the benefits of trade liberalization without infringing on the freedom of governments to pursue legitimate domestic objectives. The difficulty lies in distinguishing between two types of situations. In one, a non-protectionist...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012884313
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Intellectual Property and Digital Trade Mapping International Regulatory Responses to Emerging Issues
World Trade Organization - 2021
This paper explores how regulatory responses to emerging IP issues in digital trade may develop at the international level and in particular how existing mechanisms might influence the chances of developing internationally agreed rules in this regard. The primacy of state sovereignty in...
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The Shifting Contours of Trade in Knowledge : The New 'Trade-Related Aspects' of Intellectual Property
World Trade Organization - 2020
This paper charts the evolution and diversification of trade in knowledge that has taken place in the quarter-century since the WTO TRIPS Agreement came into force. Entirely new markets have come into being, potentially redefining the very character of 'trade'.
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The role of advanced technologies in cross-border trade : a customs perspective
World Trade Organization; World Customs Organization - 2022
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The Role of Advanced Technologies in Cross-border Trade : A customs perspective
World Trade Organization - 2022
This publication is a collaboration between the WCO and the WTO to gain a better understanding of how the latest advanced technologies can help customs authorities to contribute to trade facilitation and to shed light on the opportunities and challenges customs authorities face when deploying...
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Subsidies, Trade, and International Cooperation
World Trade Organization - 2023
Dealing constructively with subsidies in global commerce is central to G20 leaders' goal of reforming and strengthening the multilateral trading system. The growing use of distortive subsidies alters trade and investment flows, detracts from the value of tariff bindings and other market access...
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Trade in a globalizing world
2008
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