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Servification of Firms and Trade Policy Implications
Lodefalk, Magnus - 2016
In the OECD countries, the decline of manufacturing and its employment implications have long been matters of concern. Recently, policymakers in several countries have set out to achieve reindustrialization. The servicification of firms is related to these concerns and aspirations. However,...
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Trade, trade agreements and subsidies: The case of the Indian apparel industry
Mukherjee, Arpita; Paul, Anusree; Sarma, Angana Parashar; … - 2018
) enhance the export competitiveness of this sector (b) be WTO compliant and (c) ensure greater market access for Indian apparel …
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Supporting open plurilateral negotiations for multilateral liberalisation of trade
Hoda, Anwarul - 2023
account of the use of OPAs in the GATT 1947 era and of its revival under the WTO Agreement. It describes the various areas of …For many years now, lack of progress in multilateral trade negotiations has been a major cause of concern among WTO … legacy from the GATT 1947 days and is difficult, if not impossible, to change. Developing countries are strongly attached to …
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Tradable immigration quotas
Fernández-Huertas Moraga, Jesús; Rapoport, Hillel - 2011
International migration is maybe the single most effective way to alleviate poverty at a global level. When a given host country allows more immigrants in, this creates costs and benefits for that particular country as well as a positive externality for all those (individuals and governments)...
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The impact of bilateral investment treaties on FDI inflows into India: Some empirical results
Singh, Jaivir; Shreeti, Vatsala; Urdhwareshe, Parnil - 2020
Commencing in the 1990s, India signed a number of bilateral investment treaties (BITs), however, after a spate of adverse investor-state dispute settlements (ISDS), India has recently denounced all its erstwhile investment treaties. New investment treaties now need to be negotiated on the basis...
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International refugee law and the European Union's Refugee Protection Protocol: A study on the ius cogens norm of non-refoulement
Balogh, Cintia - 2015
International refugee law is binding upon all European Union member states, however European regional instruments, relocation theories and practices may diverge from the 1951 Geneva Convention and 1967 Protocol. This may lead to the violation of the ius cogens norm of the principle of...
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Financial and real integration
Baier, Scott L.; Dwyer, Gerald P. - 2008
We examine the relationship between real and financial integration. Real integration is measured by productivities of capital and labor from trade data for 1982 to 1997. Financial integration is measured by the black market exchange rate. We find more evidence of convergence to equality for...
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The Distributional Effects of International Fragmentation
Kohler, Wilhelm - 2002
Economic globalization causes an increasing international fragmentation (disintegration) of value-added-chains, whereby firms outsource components of production to foreign markets. There is a high level of concern about unwelcome distributional effects. This paper provides a theoretical...
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Industrial specialisation, trade, and labour market dynamics in a multisectoral model of technological progress
Stehrer, Robert - 2001
The issue of the impact of trade on specialisation structures and the effects of trade liberalisation on employment and labour markets has been intensively discussed in the recent literature on trade liberalisation and globalisation. In Europe this debate has gained new momentum in the...
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Income distribution, technical change and the dynamics of international economic integration
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2005
This paper explores the features of a dynamic multisectoral model which focuses on the relationship between income distribution, growth and international specialization. The model is explored both for the steady-state properties and the transitory dynamics of integrated economies. Income...
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