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Will Markets Direct Investments Under the Kyoto Protocol?
Larson, Donald F. - 2016
Under the Kyoto Protocol, countries can meet treaty obligations by investing in projects that reduce or sequester greenhouse gases elsewhere. Prior to ratification, treaty participants agreed to launch country-based pilot projects, referred to collectively as Activities Implemented Jointly...
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Non-Tariff Measures and the World Trading System
Ederington, Josh - 2017
With the success of the World Trade Organization and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in … literature on non-tariff measures in the world trading system. It provides a set of stylized facts based on available data on non … measures in the trade literature with a focus on the rules and institutions that govern non-tariff measures in the world …
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Agricultural Trade : What Matters in the Doha Round?
Laborde, David - 2017
This survey concludes that including agriculture in the Doha Agenda negotiations was important both economically and politically, although the political resistance to reform is particularly strong in this sector. While agriculture accounts for less than 10 percent of merchandise trade, high and...
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Reducing Distortions in International Commodity Markets : An Agenda for Multilateral Cooperation
Hoekman, Bernard - 2017
as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power …
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Changing Contributions of Different Agricultural Policy Instruments to Global Reductions in Trade and Welfare
Croser, Johanna L. - 2017
Trade negotiators and policy advisors are keen to know the relative contribution of different farm policy instruments to international trade and economic welfare. Nominal rates of assistance or producer support estimates are incomplete indicators, especially when (especially in developing...
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European Community-Sugar : Cross-Subsidization and the World Trade Organization
Howse, Robert L. - 2016
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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Determinants of Trade Policy Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis
Gawande, Kishore - 2017
. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …
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Doha Merchandise Trade Reform : What's at Stake for Developing Countries?
Anderson, Kym - 2016
liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …
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Implications of the Doha Market Access Proposals for Developing Countries
Laborde, David - 2017
This paper uses detailed data on bound and applied tariffs to assess the consequences of the World Trade Organization …
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Formulas and Flexibility in Trade Negotiations : Sensitive Agricultural Products in the Wto's Doha Agenda
Jean, Sebastien - 2017
Many trade negotiations involve large cuts in high tariffs, with flexibilities allowing much smaller cuts for an agreed number of politically-sensitive products. The effects of these flexibilities on market access opportunities are difficult to predict, creating particular problems for...
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