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WTO 'à la carte' or WTO 'menu du jour'? Assessing the case for Plurilateral Agreements
Hoekman, Bernard M.; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2013
Plurilateral agreements in the WTO context allow sub-sets of countries to agree to commitments in specific policy areas … that only apply to signatories, and thus allow for 'variable geometry' in the WTO. Plurilateral agreements share a number … distinguishes them from the general, nondiscriminatory agreements that are negotiated among—and apply to—all WTO Members. Current …
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Bite the Bullet: Trade Retaliation, EU Jurisprudence and the Law and Economics of 'Taking One for the Team'
Hoekman, Bernard M.; Mavroidis, Petros C. - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2013
by Fedon (an Italian producer of eye glass cases) from the EU for the imposition of WTO-authorized retaliatory trade … barriers by the United States following the failure by the EU to comply with an adverse ruling by the WTO regarding its import … WTO-illegal protection, at the expense of a set of EU exporters, including Fedon, that were hit by US countermeasures. By …
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Liberalizing Trade in Services: Lessons from Regional and WTO Negotiations
Hoekman, Bernard M.; Mattoo, Aaditya - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2013
review the limited progress achieved to date in the WTO and major regional agreements on services and possible explanations …
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Who profits from trade facilitation initiatives?
Hoekman, Bernard M.; Shepherd, Ben - 2013
Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from trade facilitation - measures to reduce the overall costs of the international movement of goods. From an equity perspective an important question is how those benefits are distributed across and within...
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Who profits from trade facilitation initiatives? : implications for African countries
Hoekman, Bernard M.; Shepherd, Benjamin - In: Journal of African trade : official journal of the … 2 (2015) 1/2, pp. 51-70
Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from measures to facilitate trade - reduce trade costs - for African countries in particular. However, concerns have been expressed by policymakers regarding the distribution of the benefits and costs of trade...
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Preference erosion and multilateral trade liberalization
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard M.; Manchin, Miriam - 2005
WTO-based concern. …
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Trade in services: Opening markets to create opportunities
Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2017
This paper reviews the role of services in development and growth, the potential role of trade in services as a driver of the productivity performance of sectors that use services as inputs, and the links between services policies and domestic trade costs. Barriers to trade in services have...
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Initial conditions and incentives for Arab economic integration : can the European Community's success be emulated?
Hoekman, Bernard M.; Messerlin, Patrick - Sciences économiques, Sciences Po - 2002
The authors compare the European Community's "trade fundamentals" prevailing in the 1960s with those applying in Arab countries today. The fundamentals differ significantly-Arab countries trade much less with each other than EC members did, and the importance of such trade in GDP varies greatly....
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Global Governance of International Competitiveness Spillovers
Hoekman, Bernard M. - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2013
Reducing public sector deficits and high debt burdens in part will require an increase in net exports – which is only possible if the countries concerned are able to produce goods and services that are 'competitive' on world markets. Policies aimed at enhancing competitiveness may be offset by...
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The World Bank Group Trade Strategy: Fit for Purpose?
Hoekman, Bernard M. - Robert Schuman Centre for Advanced Studies (RSCAS), … - 2013
In 2011 the World Bank Group (WBG) issued a new trade strategy. This identifies the primary axes for WBG engagement and support activities and areas where action is likely to have the greatest positive impact in terms of helping developing countries to integrate further into the world economy...
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