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This paper reviews the most significant recent developments in the theory of trade agreements. The paper offers an integrated approach to evaluating trade agreements, and uses the approach to present results on preferential and multilateral trade agreements. The paper identifies also several...
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This book considers the leadership of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) and the interaction with civil society in the process of South Asian regional cooperation and integration, and discusses how the emerging urgency in the provision of regional public goods provides...
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We develop a novel two-stage methodology that allows us to study the empirical determinants of the ex post effects of past free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as obtain ex ante predictions for the effects of future FTAs. We first identify 908 unique estimates of the effects of FTAs on different...
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particularly the case after the establishment of the World Trade Organization in 1995 and especially during the Doha Round (2001 … act as a tool for enlightening our understanding of what we see in the world around us ... For those who want a …
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1. The World Trade Organization and the international political economy -- 2. Institutional development of the WTO -- 3 …Despite the disruption of the multilateral trade talks at Seattle in December 1999, the work of the World Trade … Organization (WTO) continues. The trade and investment issues that have been outstanding since the Seattle events are explored in …
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One of the unforeseen consequences of the WTO agreements has been controversy over risk. This volume explores aspects … of risk with special reference to the WTO, where national instruments to reduce risk may conflict with international … trade rules. The book is divided into sections dealing with: accounting for risk in trade agreements; risk and the WTO …
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. Bewley (ed) (ed.), Advances in Economic Theory: Fifth World Congress, Chapter 9, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 329 …Wilfred J. Ethier (2004), 'Political Externalities, Nondiscrimination and a Multilateral World', Review of … Favored Nation Obligation and Its Exceptions in the WTO/GATT System', International Review of Law and Economics, 16 (1), March …
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the “coherence gap” in global governance. This paper examines the contribution that the WTO can make in its three areas of … argument that could be made for the use of WTO-triggered trade actions to enforce cooperative behaviour towards rebalancing …
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China's accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2001 was widely regarded as a major milestone in the … information about China's economy after WTO accession and analyses many important issues concerning China's economic growth …
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The prospective WTO Millennium Round of negotiations will highlight critical economic issues regarding the application … and implementation of the WTO rules to international trade in goods and services. In this book, a distinguished group of … academic experts considers the agenda and areas of interest for the next Round in light of Seattle, the functions of the WTO …
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