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International investment law is undergoing a time of reflection, review and revision. Increasing dissatisfaction with the functioning of the current system that governs the protection of international investment and the wish to ensure that investment is channelled towards sustainable development...
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This paper considers the possibilities that the member states of the WTO would adopt some kind of antitrust provision. Initially, the paper reviews the historical relation of competition policy to trade policy, from the Havana Conference to the present. It then reviews the conflicts between the...
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Since the inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 1995, member countries have been heavily relying on the …
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This paper argues that GSP labour rights conditionality is in conformity with WTO law. This hinges on the critical question of whether the realisation of labour standards can meet a ‘development need,' a term considered by the WTO Appellate Body report in the EC – Tariffs Preferences case,...
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This essay aims to determine whether developing countries can benefit from a multilateral agreement on foreign direct investment (FDI). For the purpose of this essay, the problem is broken into two separate questions. The first question is whether a multilateral agreement can help increase the...
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provisions under the World Trade Organization (WTO) which in turn resulted in a tremendous impact on the ambitious Agreement on … facilitation was exclusively to serve the needs of the developed world, where the latter could, as a result of these measures gain … a better access to the markets of the developing world. However, trade facilitation in emerging economies could witness …
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The subject of international trade, with its many promises and perils, has spawned a vast body of literature. In “Developing Countries and the Multilateral Trade Regime: The Failure and Promise of the WTO’s Development Mission,” Dr. Donatella Alessandrini reviews the international...
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While the objectives of the World Trade Organization include promotion of economic development for developing countries … stabilizing world trade and inhibiting state interference with world trade, they also have significant implications for tariff and …
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Despite the looming expiration of the extended transition period under Article 66.1 of the Agreement on Trade-related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) on 1 July 2013, most least-developed countries (LDCs) have not made significant progress in implementing the TRIPS Agreement. WTO...
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Facilitating economic development of developing countries has become an important agenda in the world trading system …, currently represented by the World Trade Organization, will depend on bridging these gaps between developed and developing … regulatory reform to promote development in the current system. The paper also proposes organizational reform in the World Trade …
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