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. However, they are likely to have a more prominent role in trade policy discussions in the years ahead for the new World Trade …
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This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the …
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This paper reviews the history of bilateral trade negotiations between Taiwan and the U.S. The question posed at the outset is: does bilateralism enhance or jeopardize multilateralism? The U.S.-Taiwan experience seems to suggest a grossly negative answer. Bilateral negotiations for market...
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In their striving toward development, a number of less developed countries have espoused bilateral trade as yet another policy instrument allowing them to increase their acquisition of foreign resources. This has been particularly true of the trade of India, Pakistan, and Egypt, on which some...
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membership into the world trading system, the WTO may face a "latecomers" problem that, while occurring also in earlier rounds …
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This essay surveys the evidence on the linkages between globalization and poverty. I focus on two measures of … globalization: trade and international capital flows. Past researchers have argued that global economic integration should help the … evidence suggests that the poor are more likely to share in the gains from globalization when there are complementary policies …
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Existing formal models of the relationship between trade policy and regulatory policy suggest the potential for a regulatory race to the bottom. WTO rules and disputes, however, center on complaints about excessively stringent regulations. This paper bridges the gap between the existing formal...
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What are the potential benefits from establishing international rules for the conduct of trade policy and how should these rules be designed? These questions are of central importance to the evolution of national trade policies in the post-war era, a period in which an elaborate system of...
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possible impacts of each variant. We also speculate as to how the world trading system may evolve in the next few decades as …
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innovation endogenously determines the dynamics of technology, and, therefore, market leadership and trade flows, in a world with … illustrates that, statically, globalization (defined as reduced trade barriers) has ambiguous effects on welfare, while …, dynamically, intensified globalization boosts domestic innovation through induced international competition. Accounting for …
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