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environmental policies and the multilateral trading system. In particular, it analyses some of the difficulties the WTO Dispute … failures, be ruled consistent with multilateral trade law. This paper argues that WTO law in theory provides appropriate tools … interpretations of certain WTO rules in the context of environmental disputes. …
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and the WTO Secretariat, which builds on a database developed by the World Bank nearly ten years ago and draws on a recent … analysis of their impact. This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database (STPD), a joint initiative by the World Bank … classification, consistent with both the earlier World Bank database and the current OECD database, enabling for the first time a …
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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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In this paper we examine the impact of major disasters on international trade flows using a gravity model. Our panel data consists of more than 170 countries for the years 1962-2004 yielding approximately 300,000 observations. We find that the driving forces determining the impact of such events...
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sectoral CGE framework in order to project the world economy forward to the year 2035 and assess to what extent current trends … are particularly high: The emergence of new players in the world economy, intensification of South-South trade and …
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