Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic … perspective, general market access commitments with respect to services trade and commitments regarding government procurement of …

Competition between ports depends on inland freight distribution and the spatial structure of the hinterland. With this …, ports and port regions increasingly compete to serve distant hinterlands. In a European context, many researchers refer to … Hamburg-Le Havre ports using automated zoning techniques. These techniques aggregate geographical areas in homogeneous …

as a gateway to the Iberian Peninsula and Western Europe. In fact, Portuguese range ports, located at the extreme of rail …Ports located in the Portuguese west coast have been collectively defined as the 'Portuguese Range', constituting a …. The aim of this paper is to identify how the Portuguese ports have been developing and how they can establish themselves …

of Europe. Iberia and the Atlantic -- Iberian Overseas Expansion and European trade networks -- Domestic Expansion in the … most important theories regarding Europe’s economic development. Adopting a comparative perspective, it considers the … for institutional development, political economies, and processes of state-building in Iberia and Europe. The book engages …