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Does Globalization Cause a Higher Concentration of International Trade and Investment Flows?
World Trade Organization - 1998
It has sometimes been argued that "globalization" benefits only a small number of countries, and that this leads to … greater marginalization of excluded countries. This paper argues that globalization is not necessarily biased towards greater …, marginalization is not intrinsic to globalization. Key Words: Globalization, international trade and investment flows concentration. …
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Can Bilateralism Ease the Pains of Multilateral Trade Liberalization?
World Trade Organization - 1998
Using the influence-driven approach to endogenous trade-policy determination, we show how a free-trade agreement (FTA) with rules of origin can work as a device to compensate losers from trade liberalization. The FTA constructed in this paper is characterized by external tariff structures that...
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Bilateralism in services trade : is there fire behind the (BIT-)smoke?
Adlung, Rudolf; Molinuevo, Martin - 2008
Far less attention is given to the even more rapid proliferation of bilateral investment treaties (BITs) and their overlap with obligations assumed by WTO Members under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS). About 60 per cent of world foreign investment stocks are in services and,...
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Evolution of Asia's outward-looking economic policies : some lessons from trade policy reviews
Daly, Michael John - 2011 - Manuscript date: 17 August 2011
This Working Paper contains some observations concerning the evolution of trade and trade-related policies in the Asia-Pacific region since the establishment in 1989 of the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM), whose goal is to improve the transparency of these policies. It also draws some...
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What global fragmentation means for the WTO : Article XXIV, behind-the-border concessions, and a new case for WTO limits on investment incentives
Blanchard, Emily J. - 2014 - Manuscript date: December 19, 2013
The rapid rise in global fragmentation — foreign investment, global supply chains, and ‘production sharing — is fundamentally reshaping the multilateral trading system. This paper uses a simple economic modeling framework to understand how the global fragmentation phenomenon may reshape...
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The Impact of Transparency on Foreign Direct Investment
World Trade Organization - 2001
Non-transparency is a term given in this paper to a set of government policies that increase the risk and uncertainty faced by economic actors foreign investors. This increase in risk and uncertainty stems from the presence of bribery and corruption, unstable economic policies, weak and poorly...
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A Simple Trade Policy Perspective on Capital Controls
World Trade Organization - 1998
This note discusses capital controls using insights from the trade policy literature. It highlights some key issues that have been neglected in the current international debate on capital controls. Capital is tradable in the same way as many goods and services are. As a result, much of the...
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Footloose global value chains : how trade costs make a difference
Jakubik, Adam; Stolzenburg, Victor - 2019 - Manuscript date: November 2019
The geography of global value chains (GVCs) depends crucially on trade costs between countries hosting various stages of production. Some stages might be more sensitive to trade costs than others. In this paper, we exploit a value-added decomposition of bilateral trade flows to distinguish low...
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A survey of investment provisions in regional trade agreements
Chornyi, Vasyl; Nerushay, Marianna; Crawford, Jo-Ann - 2016 - Manuscript date: June 2016
The liberalization and protection of investment flows has become an increasingly indispensable pillar of economic integration. The objective of this study is to contribute to a better understanding of the ways in which RTAs achieve such liberalization and protection. To this end, we have...
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Aid for trade, foreign direct investment and export upgrading in recipient countries
Gnangnon, Sèna Kimm; Roberts, Michael - 2015 - Manuscript date: 4 December 2015
This paper examines empirically whether Aid for Trade (AfT) programmes and Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows affect export upgrading and, if so, whether their effects are complementary or substitutable. Export upgrading entails export diversification (including overall export...
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