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Social Policy Dimensions of Economic Integration : Environmental and Labour Standards
Anderson, Kym - 1996
. 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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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473066
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Bilateral Negotiations and Multilateral Trade : The Case of Taiwan-U.S. Trade Talks
Chen, Tain-Jy - 1995
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473546
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Bilateral Trade as a Development Instrument Under Global Trade Restrictions
Nashashibi, Karim - 1974
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012479072
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Can the Doha Round be a Development Round? Setting a Place at the Table
Bagwell, Kyle - 2011
membership into the world trading system, the WTO may face a "latecomers" problem that, while occurring also in earlier rounds …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012461008
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Globalization and Poverty
Harrison, Ann - 2006
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012466318
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International Trade and Domestic Regulation
Staiger, Robert W. - 2009
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012463108
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Carbon, Trade Policy, and Carbon Free Trade Areas
Dong, Yan - 2008
, forms and possible impacts of each variant. We also speculate as to how the world trading system may evolve in the next few …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464216
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International Rules and Institutions for Trade Policy
Staiger, Robert W. - 1994
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473937
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Government Policies in a Granular Global Economy
Gaubert, Cecile; Itskhoki, Oleg; Vogler, Maximilian - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2021
We use the granular model of international trade developed in Gaubert and Itskhoki (2020) to study the rationale and implications of three types of government interventions typically targeted at large individual firms -- antitrust, trade and industrial policies. We find that in antitrust...
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