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More than half of the World Trade Organization (WTO)-notified services trade agreements (STAs) in effect since 2008 …) determinants of preferential trade agreements and using the World Bank's database on the restrictiveness of domestic services … results suggest that countries within Asia that are more remote from the rest of the world and that have similar economic …
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Given the rise of services preferentialism in the last decade and the importance of domestic regulation for services trade, this paper examines the role of regulatory incidence and convergence as determinants of services trade agreements (STAs). Our results suggest that regulation is an...
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Using a large panel for 95 countries and the 1972–2014 period, this paper analyses the interactions among globalization, political & civil rights and economic convergence, through a simultaneous estimation technique. We use a multi-dimensional, de facto, and continuous measures of Freedoms and...
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We explore the political economy of trade and labor mobility in a Ricardian world. We combine a Ricardian economy with … Ricardian world, the lack of convergence in levels of well-being across countries can be attributed to an international …
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The fight against money laundering in Canada will require tougher measures that shine a light on the perpetrators who now operate in the shadows, says a new report from the C.D. Howe Institute. In “Why We Fail to Catch Money Launderers 99.9 percent of the Time,” author Kevin Comeau supports...
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necessary costs of reducing GHG emissions be allocated across regions of the world, within the next few generations, and … simultaneously address growth expectations and economic development? We postulate a two-region world and, based on sustainability and …
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