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place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …
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The focus of trade policy has shifted in recent years from economy-wide reductions in tariffs and trade restrictions toward targeted interventions to facilitate trade and promote exports. Most of these latter interventions are based on the new mantra of "aid-for-trade" rather than on hard...
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The World Trade Organization has been until recently an effective framework for cooperation because it has continually … mechanism that has driven the World Trade Organization process to previous successes. The second is new restraints on …
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How global emissions reduction targets can be achieved equitably is a key issue in climate change discussions. This paper presents an analytical framework to encompass contributions to the literature on equity in climate change, and highlights the consequences -- in terms of future emissions...
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Uruguay Round commitments by about 13 percent but remain on average 1.9 times more restrictive than actual policies. The World …
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There is growing clamor in industrial countries for additional border taxes on imports from countries with lower carbon prices. The authors confirm the findings of other research that unilateral emissions cuts by industrial countries will have minimal carbon leakage effects. However, output and...
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The Doha Round must be concluded not because it will produce dramatic liberalization but because it will create greater security of market access. Its conclusion would strengthen, symbolically and substantively, the WTO s valuable role in restraining protectionism in the current downturn. What...
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