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The WTO and Trade-Related Human Rights Measures : Trade Sanctions vs. Trade Incentives

Zagel, Gudrun Monika - 2020

One of the main reproaches against the WTO is that it does not allow for the enforcement of human rights through trade measures. The article analyzes legal, economic and political aspects of trade sanctions and trade incentives respectively. Whereas the WTO legal order hardly permits trade...

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Trade Sanctions, Human Rights and Multinational Corporations : The EU-ACP Context

Amao, Olufemi O. - 2009

Significant numbers of multinational corporations ("MNCs") from the European Union ("EU") operate in the African, Caribbean and Pacific ("ACP") countries. The ACP countries are attractive operational bases because of the enormous availability of raw materials, low cost of labour, and favourable...

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Pretending to be the good guy : how to increase ODA inflows while abusing human rights

Schmaljohann, Maya - 2013

I investigate the effect of ratification of different human rights treaties adopted by the United Nations General Assembly on Official Development Assistance (ODA) by donors of the OECD Development Assistance Committee (DAC). On average the ratification of an additional human rights treaty...

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The WTO and environmental provisions : three categories of trade and environment linkage

Khalilian, Setareh (contributor) - 2009

The current WTO jurisdiction on linkages of trade and environment is not free of contradictions and has provided for heated debate due to some inconsistencies in past WTO rulings. The article argues that the WTO jurisdiction is not only unclear but also lacks economic reasoning. It aims to...

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FCPA Sanctions : Too Big to Debar?

Stevenson, Drury D. - 2012

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Rethinking the World Bank's Sanctions System

Yukins, Christopher R. - 2013

The World Bank is reviewing its system for suspending and debarring contractors (known formally as the World Bank … the World Bank defer finalizing any reforms until it concludes its assessment of first principles, and has at hand all the … data necessary to assess the sanctions system against those first principles. Reform of the World Bank sanctions system is …

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Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and its Gender Gap

Gutmann, Jerg - 2020

We empirically analyze the effect of UN and US economic sanctions on life expectancy and its gender gap in target countries. Our sample covers 98 less developed and newly industrialized countries over the period 1977–2012. We employ a matching approach to account for the endogeneity of...

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Reaching Multinational Corporations : A New Model for Drafting Effective Economic Sanctions

Weida, Jason Collins - 2006

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Extraterritorial trade sanctions : theory and application to the US-Iran-EU conflict

Janeba, Eckhard - 2022

Under extraterritorial sanctions the sanctioning country extends its policies to trade of third countries with the sanctioned country. A prominent example is former US President Trump's decision to leave the Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action (JCPOA), a multilateral agreement with Iran. The...

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Sanctioned to Death? The Impact of Economic Sanctions on Life Expectancy and Its Gender Gap

Gutmann, Jerg - 2018

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