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Advancing Global Trade: Pro Liberalisation and Development

Neary, Peter; S¡lesers, Ainars; Krubasik, Edward G.; … - In: CESifo Forum 04 (2003) 2, pp. 52-67

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The Failure of the WTO Ministerial Meeting in Cancun: Implications for Further Research

Evenett, Simon J. - In: CESifo Forum 04 (2003) 3, pp. 11-17

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Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trading System after Doha

Srinivasan, T. N. - 2002

The Fourth Session of the Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO), held in Doha, Qatar, in …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010369126

Constraining and supporting effects of the multilateral trading system on US unilateralism

Benavente, Daniela - 2010

The subject of this paper is Section 301 of the Trade Act of 1974 of the United States, a statute that for the past 35 years has allowed the U.S. to unilaterally handle its trade disputes. More specifically, the paper examines the constraining and supporting effects of the multilateral trading...

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National Treatment in the GATT

Horn, Henrik - 2006

The National Treatment clause (NT) is the first-line defense in the GATT (and in most other trade agreements) against opportunistic exploitation of the inevitable incompleteness of the agreement. This paper examines the role of NT as it applies to internal taxation under the GATT. It is shown...

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Voluntary environmental agreements, emission taxes and international trade: The importance of the timing of strategies

Conrad, Klaus - 1999

The purpose of the paper is to narrow the gap between the widespread use of voluntary agreements and research on the rationale of such approaches. A typical example are voluntary agreements of many industries to reduce carbon dioxide emissions because of global warming. If the industry...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011608503

Improving institutional coherence: Managing interplay between trade and climate change

Stilwell, Matthew - 2009

last year has seen a rising tide of public concern, as well as pronouncements by the world's leading scientific body on … economic activity and international trade. According to the Stern Review, authored by the former World Bank Senior Economist … Sir Nicolas Stern, "climate change is the greatest market failure the world has ever seen". Responding to climate change …

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Developing countries and the political economy of the trading system

Hoekman, Bernard - 2002

This paper analyses a number of the challenges confronting developing countries seeking to use the WTO Doha negotiations to promote their economic growth and performance. A precondition for success is to have clear objectives and to take a proactive stance. But a key necessary condition for...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010279328

Conflicting perspectives in trade and environmental negotations

Buchner, Barbara K.; Roson, Roberto - 2002

International trade negotiations have recently tackled the issue of possible free trade restrictions, justified - among others - on the basis of environmental concerns. Also, some analyses of international environmental agreements (especially in the field of climate change) have highlighted the...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011335735

From trade preferences to trade facilitation: Taking stock of the issues

Persson, Maria - 2011

The objective of the paper is to explore and give an overview of two central policy alternatives to improve the integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade facilitation. After reviewing the relevant literatures and...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010305855

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