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Intellectual Property and the WTO
Fink, Carsten - 2004
-Related Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is one of three pillar agreements, setting out the legal framework in which the World Trade … Organization (WTO) has operated since the end of the Uruguay Round. For the multilateral trading system, TRIPS marked the departure … trade. Yet the TRIPS negotiations on intellectual property were marked by significant North-South differences. Developed …
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The evolution of deep trade agreements
Mattoo, Aaditya; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2020
This paper presents new data on the content of preferential trade agreements. The data contain detailed information on the 18 policy areas most frequently covered in preferential trade agreements, focusing on the stated objectives, substantive commitments, and other aspects such as transparency,...
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Deep Trade Agreements and Vertical FDI : The Devil is in the Details
Osnago, Alberto - 2015
Recent data show that the institutional content of preferential trade agreements has evolved over time. Although pre-1990s preferential trade agreements mostly focused on tariff liberalization, recent agreements increasingly contain deep provisions in diverse areas, such as intellectual property...
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The Economic Effects of Counterfeiting and Piracy : A Review and Implications for Developing Countries
Fink, Carsten - 2016
Policy makers around the world recognize the potentially harmful consequences of trademark counterfeiting and copyright …
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Conceptual aspects of global value chains : World Development Report 2020 background paper
Antràs, Pol - 2020
The paper offers an overview of some key conceptual aspects associated with the rise of global value chains (GVCs). It outlines a series of alternative interpretations and definitions of what the rise of GVCs entails, and it traces the implications of these alternative conceptualizations for the...
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The voice of foreign direct investment : foreign investor policy preferences and experiences in developing countries
Saurav, Abhishek; Kuo, Ryan - 2020
This paper provides insights to inform government efforts to attract and retain foreign direct investment, by analyzing the results of a survey of more than 2,400 affiliates of multinational enterprises across 10 middle-income countries. The paper explores corporate perspectives and...
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Global recessions
Kose, M. Ayhan; Sugawara, Naotaka; Terrones, Marco E. - 2020
The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230745
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An empirical investigation of trade diversion and global value chains : World Development Report 2020 : background paper
Soyres, François de; Maire, Julien; Sublet, Guillaume - 2019
Rules of Origin as an implicit trade barrier for imports from the rest of the world. Global Value Chains are most relevant …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168114
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Inflation dynamics and global value chains : World Development Report 2020 : background paper
Soyres, François de; Franco, Sebastián - 2019
The global economy has witnessed a decline in inflation and an increase in inflation synchronization since the early 1980s. This paper investigates the relationship between inflation synchronization and trade integration, and documents the strong link between inflation co-movement and Global...
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Trade, global value chains and GDP comovemement : an empirical investigation : World Development Report 2020 : background paper
Soyres, François de; Gaillard, Alexandre - 2019
This paper provides up-to-date characterization of the association between trade and GDP comovement - also called the trade comovement slope- for 150 countries from 1962 to 2011. The paper shows that trade is significantly linked to more GDP correlation, either directly through bilateral trade,...
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