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The Environmental Regime in Developing Countries

Jha, Raghbendra - 1999

This paper discusses the environmental externalities that are commonly found in the developing world (the environmental regime) along with the policy responses, if any, commonly used to deal with these. Included are the effects of industrial emissions, air and water quality impacts of untreated...

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Trade and Environment : Bargaining Outcomes from Linked Negotiations

Abrego, Lisandro - 1997

Recent literature has explored both physical and policy linkage between trade and environment. Here we explore linkage through leverage in bargaining, whereby developed countries can use trade policy threats to achieve improved developing country environmental management, while developing...

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Trade and Environment Beyond Singapore

Whalley, John - 1996

This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...

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Carbon Motivated Regional Trade Arrangements : Analytics and Simulations

Dong, Yan - 2009

This paper presents both analytics and numerical simulation results relevant to proposals for carbon motivated regional trade agreements summarized in Dong & Whalley(2008). Unlike traditional regional trade agreements, by lowing tariffs on participant's low carbon emission goods and setting...

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Unilateral Measures and Emissions Mitigation

Chatterji, Shurojit - 2009

We discuss global climate mitigation that builds on existing unilateral measures to cut emissions. We document and discuss the rationale for such unilateral measures argue that such measures have the potential to generate positive spillover effects both within and across countries. In a simple...

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The Possibilities For Global Poverty Reduction Using Revenues From Global Carbon Pricing

Davies, James B. - 2011

Global carbon pricing can yield revenues which are large enough to create significant global pro-poor redistributive opportunities. We analyze alternative multidecade growth trajectories for major global economies with carbon tax rates designed to stabilize emissions in the presence of both...

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The Division and Size of Gains from Liberalization of Service Networks

Bhattarai, Keshab - 1998

This paper emphasizes the different nature of cross border liberalization in network related services, such as telecoms, compared to liberalization in goods. In the presence of network externalities, it argues that if two disjoint country service networks involving a small and large country are...

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Beyond Goods and Services : Competition Policy, Investment, Mutual Recognition, Movement of Persons, and Broader Cooperation Provisions of Recent FTAs involving ASEAN Countries

Banda, O. G. Dayaratna - 2005

We discuss recent bilateral, regional, and country trade, partnership, and economic agreements involving both ASEAN as a single entity and individual ASEAN countries (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia) focusing on their reach beyond conventional trade in goods and services issues. What emerges is of...

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Competitive Liberalization and a US-SACU FTA

Whalley, John - 2003

competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate preferential arrangements with smaller countries or regions will lower … such an arrangement lies in improved access to a smaller but more protected market where the EU already has preferential …

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Chinese Firm and Industry Reactions to Antidumping Initiations and Measures

Li, Chunding - 2010

antidumping actions against China from developed and developing countries, US and EU to compare their different effects. We find … industry reactions to antidumping actions by the US and EU are the same as for other developed countries, but the effects of US … actions are larger. US antidumping actions have more impact than EU's on firm numbers, employees and exports, and EU …

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