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The establishment of international labor standards linked to market access within the WTO is among the proposals … WTO Charter and, previously, the GATT are virtually silent on the potential inhumanity of globally integrated goods and … standards ultimately gained access to the process of rules-setting in the WTO indirectly through Article XXIV governing the …
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within the WTO. We first develop an understanding of the interaction between global goods, capital and labor markets and the …
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This paper explores how far free trade agreements (FTAs) have strengthened or weakened global governance of the trading system. We open with an analysis of the altered political and economic context within which countries have come, in recent years, to assign a new importance to regional and...
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, Japan, and other major trading countries/regions of the Doha Round of WTO multilateral trade negotiations and a variety of …
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In this paper we discuss the various aspects of the Doha Round of Multilateral Trade Negotiations in the WTO that offer …
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There are two principal theories of why countries trade: comparative advantage and increasing returns to scale. Yet there is no empirical work that assesses the relative importance of these two theories in accounting for production structure and trade. We use a framework that nests an increasing...
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