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Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As...
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This paper applies a partial equilibrium model to analyze the fiscal revenue implications of the prospective economic partnership agreement between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union. The authors find that, under standard import price and substitution...
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The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) under the WTO is a newly-born and the first ever multilateral … lessons for the GATS itself and other WTO members. The transitional review provided under China's Accession Protocol and …
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Policymakers increasingly view China’s rapidly growing wealth as a threat. China currently ranks second, or perhaps even first, in the world in gross domestic product (although 78th in per capita GDP), and the fear is that China will acquire military prowess commensurate with its wealth and...
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Before the coronavirus disease crisis, the EU-27 foreign trade as a whole and the member states` trade in particular, have encountered certain challenges with the expansion of the Asian economies worldwide. On the one hand, the Single Market is one of the important achievements of the...
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and deeper paperless trade provisions than those featured in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement. A more detailed …
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Almost eight years after the launch of the Doha Round, the WTO negotiations remain mired in a swamp of detail, with … could be achieved; whether there are alternative approaches to WTO negotiations that could be explored for the future; and … what a future negotiating agenda might look like. It concludes with some reflections on the prospects for the WTO at the …
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The Marrakesh Agreement establishing the WTO recognizes the need for positive efforts designed to ensure that … commensurate with the needs of their economic development.This article discusses how the WTO contributes to facilitating Africa …'s integration into the WTO multilateral trading system. It is argued that, while African countries are actively engaged in the work …
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