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, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple …
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This paper provides a detailed explanation how the law of the World Trade Organization regulates environmental … relevant World Trade Organization rules and case law, including the recent Canada-Renewable Energy case. The paper also makes … specific recommendations for how World Trade Organization law can be improved and discusses the literature on reform proposals …
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How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this starting point is key to determining how successful the GATT has been in bringing down trade barriers. If the average tariff level was about 40 percent, as commonly reported, the...
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place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …
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Rich countries' agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round will be determined. Subject to widespread criticism, they nonetheless appear to be almost immune to serious reform, and one of their most common defenses is that they protect...
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liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …
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The Zambian cotton sector went through significant reforms during the 1990s. After a long period of parastatal control, a process of liberalization in cotton production and marketing began in 1994. These reforms were expected to benefit agricultural farmers. In Zambia, these are rural, often...
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the World Bank in response to the global economic crisis of 2008-2009. Given trends in the imposition of new crisis …
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An important recent World Trade Organization dispute settlement case for many developing countries concerned European … being used to cover losses associated with exports of sugar to the world market. Although in principle the economic …
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countries fight about under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. The paper characterizes the scope of products, as …
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