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Trade Skirmishes and Safeguards : A Theory of the WTO Dispute Settlement Process

Beshkar, Mostafa - 2012

I propose a framework within which to interpret and evaluate the major reforms introduced to the GATT system in its transition to the WTO. In particular, I examine the WTO Agreement on Safeguards that has replaced the GATT escape clause (Article XIX), and the Dispute Settlement Process (DSP)...

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Boosting Trade Finance in Developing Countries : What Link with the WTO?

Auboin, Marc - 2013

The paper discusses the efforts deployed by various players, mainly multilateral financial institutions, regional development banks, export credit agencies, to mobilize greater flows of trade finance for developing countries, with a view to help them integrate in world trade. As an institution...

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Trade Remedy Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements

Teh, Robert; Prusa, Thomas J.; Budetta, Michele - 2007

This paper maps the provisions on anti-dumping, countervailing duties and safeguards in seventy-four regional trade agreements. The key concern of the paper is that the elastic and selective nature of trade remedies may lead to more discrimination, with reduced trade remedy actions against RTA...

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Indisputably Essential : The Economics of Dispute Settlement Institutions in Trade Agreements

Keck, Alexander; Schropp, Simon - 2007

Economic theory has made considerable progress in explaining why sovereign countries cooperate in trade. Central to most theories of trade cooperation are issues of self-enforcement: The threat of reprisal by an aggrieved party maintains the initial balance of concessions and prevents...

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National Environmental Policies and Multilateral Trade Rules

Jansen, Marion; Keck, Alexander - 2010

This paper provides an overview of institutional, economic and legal aspects of the relationship between national environmental policies and the multilateral trading system. In particular, it analyses some of the difficulties the WTO Dispute Settlement System faces when having to evaluate...

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Covered or not covered: That is the question - Services classification and its implications for specific commitments under the GATS

Zhang, Ruosi - 2015

The GATS does not offer a definition of "services", but services need to be identified and classified for the operation … the determination of sectoral coverage of GATS commitments. However, services classification does not receive enough … "new services". Section III considers the implications of classification on GATS commitments by examining a number of WTO …

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Foreign banking: Do countries' WTO commitments match actual practices?

Barth, James R.; Marchetti, Juan A.; Nolle, Daniel E.; … - 2006

The General Agreement on Trade in Services (known as the GATS) is an important new element in the international …

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Telecommunications services in Africa: The impact of multilateral commitments and unilateral reform on sector performance and economic growth

Keck, Alexander; Djiofack-Zebaze, Calvin - 2006

This paper examines the impact of telecommunications liberalization in Africa on both sectoral performance and economic growth. Besides unilateral measures, we account for WTO commitments fostering the credibility of reforms. Actual regulatory quality plays a major role in bringing down prices...

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Determining "likeness" under the GATS: Squaring the circle?

Cossy, Mireille - 2006

The concept of like services and service suppliers used in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is still … under the GATS are vague concerning the criteria which should be used to establish likeness. Discussions among WTO Members … determination of likeness under the GATS gives rise to a wider range of questions – and uncertainties – than under the GATT. The …

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The contribution of services liberalization to poverty reduction: What role for the GATS?

Adlung, Rudolf - 2007

There are various conceivable links between services liberalization and poverty reduction, including the efficiency effects associated with increased competition in intermediate (infrastructural) services, income transfers generated by workers moving abroad, or the mobilization of private...

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