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Cities and Green Growth: The Case of the Chicago Tri-State Metropolitan Area
Public Governance and Territorial Development …; … - 2013
This working paper assesses opportunities and policies for green growth in the Chicago Tri-State Metropolitan Area. It first examines the Chicago metro-region's economic and environmental performance and potential constraints to regional growth, and identifies emerging regional specialisations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277081
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Urbanisation and Green Growth in China
Public Governance and Territorial Development …; … - 2013
This working paper assesses national policy and governance mechanisms that can influence green growth in Chinese cities … impact of cities. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277087
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The Multi-level Governance of Science Policy in England
Perry, Beth - In: Regional Studies 41 (2007) 8, pp. 1051-1067
Perry B. (2007) The multi-level governance of science policy in England, Regional Studies 41, 1051-1067. This article outlines contemporary changes in the governance of science policy in England and assesses the recent emergence of regional science policies. The early 2000s have been marked by...
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Multi-level Governance of Public Investment: Lessons from the Crisis
Allain-Dupré, Dorothée - Public Governance and Territorial Development … - 2011
crisis and subsequent recession in 2008-09, many OECD and G20 countries implemented stimulus packages, which in some cases … obstacles encountered across levels of government and the instruments that facilitated implementation. The crisis has made more … crisis. As stimulus packages are phased out, many countries are planning some combination of spending cuts and tax increases …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009195419
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Japan's Asian Policy Strategy: Evolution of and Prospects for Multilateralism in Security, Trade and Financial Cooperation
Terada, Takashi - In: Public Policy Review 10 (2014) 1, pp. 227-252
In the postwar period, cooperation in the fields of security, trade and finance in Asia had been conducted mainly through bilateral arrangements. However, since 2010, there have been remarkable advances in cooperation by dint of multilateral frameworks. With regard to security framework, the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010903460
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Coping with Shocks and Shifts: The Multilateral Trading System in Historical Perspective
Irwin, Douglas A.; O'Rourke, Kevin H. - Institute for International Integration Studies (IIIS), …
This paper provides a historical look at how the multilateral trading system has coped with the challenge of shocks and shifts. By shocks we mean sudden jolts to the world economy in the form of financial crises and deep recessions, or wars and political conflicts. By shifts we mean slow-moving,...
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Global trade rules for supporting development in the post-2015 era
Cortez, Ana Luiza; Arda, Mehmet - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2014
principle of less than full reciprocity is eroded. Stronger multilateralism, effective overseeing and enforcing role by WTO and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010934670
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Global trade rules for supporting development in the post-2015 era
Cortez, Ana Luiza; Arda, Mehmet - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2014
principle of less than full reciprocity is eroded. Stronger multilateralism, effective overseeing and enforcing role by WTO and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010936508
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Are global trade negotiations behind a fragmented world of "gated globalization"?
Lake, James; Roy, Santanu - Southern Methodist University, Department of Economics - 2014
We show that global trade negotiations can prevent global free trade. In a simple model where global tariff negotiations precede sequential Free Trade Agreement (FTA), we show FTA formation can expand all the way to global free trade in the absence of global tariff negotiations but global free...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010941148
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“FREE TRADE SEMANTIC DISAGREEMENTS”: WHY WTO-STYLE MULTILATERAL LIBERALIZATION AND FTAS STAND MUCH CLOSER TO PROTECTIONISM
JORA, Octavian-Dragomir; BUTISEACA, Alexandru - In: Romanian Economic Business Review 9 (2014) 2, pp. 7-28
It is “mainstream” to say that the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) lead to the liberalization of the member states’ economies. Even “old school” pro free trade authors, known nowadays rather as being “against the tide” for promoting unilateral...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010942726