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multilateral cooperation when countries are linked by international trade flows and transboundary pollution. …
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analyse the current state of play and the character of these conflicts in each of the main arenas, focussing heavily on trade …
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The paper celebrates John Fei's life and contributions to economics by viewing them in the context of recent theoretical and empirical literature on the economics and politics of growth. It summarizes the lessons from the literature and development experience since the end of the second world...
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This paper considers the economic sanctions that were applied in the mid-1980s to pressure the South African government to end apartheid. It asks what role those sanctions played in the eventual demise of the apartheid regime and concludes that the role was probably very small. An alternative...
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This paper argues that previous empirical work on the explanation for Hong Kong's export Growth, by focusing on the values of the estimated price and income elasticities, has failed to provide a full account. It is necessarily also to look at changes in the explanatory variables in the model,...
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The latest, and internationally controversial, issue relating to trade and human rights is that of labor standards. It … has surfaced in international fora including the World Trade Organization (WTO). I will focus exclusively on this issue in … political problems associated with using trade policy as an instrument for enforcing human rights. …
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trade area to compensate for the loss of welfare due to the formation of the original union. …
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rounds of multilateral negotiations under its auspices for reductions of trade barriers culminating in the URA in 1994. …
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This paper analyses the impact of various configurations of regional economic integration on member countries as well as on outside countries under realistic assumptions. That is, we consider constant external tariffs as required by Article XXIV of the GATT and the asymmetric formation of the...
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