The on-going challenge in economic development and globalization, particularly for developing countries, is the issue of development and equality in society. The issue becomes particularly problematic when confronted in matters of international trade. Often misnamed anti-globalization activists...

This paper studies the implications of the Uruguay Round for Kenya`s own trade regime and its external trading environment. The analysis indicates that Kenya did not undertake significant liberalization commitments under the Uruguay Round. There are however, several effects on Kenya`s external...

For most Latin American countries, transport costs are a greater barrier to U.S. markets than import tariffs. In investigating the determinants of shipping costs to the U.S. with a large database of more than 300,000 observations per year on shipments of products from different ports around the...

Dual pricing is a practice that has garnered significant attention recently as either a potentially prohibited export subsidy or an actionable de facto specific subsidy under the WTO. Dual pricing practices by natural resource-endowed countries allow for the domestic price of natural resources...

In this exploratory note, development of the global electronics industry is viewed by accounting for cross-border co-evolution under policy interactions. A sketch is made from novel angles of the world distribution of major firms in the production and utilization of information technology, the...

The Article first presents a brief history or survey of some of the earlier problems that associate with China's banking and financial institutions. The Article then addresses specific problems, in the context of the rules, procedures, and practices of the banking and finance sector, which...

This paper assesses the effects of reducing tariffs under the Doha Round on market access for developing countries. It shows that for many developing countries, actual preferential access is less generous than it appears because of low product coverage or complex rules of origin. Thus lowering...

The reintegration into the world economy has been an integral part of Lithuania`s transformation process. Trade policy reform has been assigned a key role, aiming at opening up the economy and redirecting foreign trade. This paper (i) analyzes the trade shock following the dissolution of the...

This paper presents simple computational techniques to examine a variety of effects of the Uruguay Round on developing country trade flows. These methods are applied to the cases of Egypt and Morocco to simulate the implications of the Round for their medium-term balance of payments. The...