This report investigates the implications of regionalism for the interaction between trade and climate policy. It examines the implications of regional climate governance for international trade and conversely the implications of regional trade governance for climate change action. Regional...

This paper examines the incidence of foreign control in Canadian non-financial industries. It focuses on changes in the share of assets and revenues under foreign control over a long-run period during which Canada's regulatory climate shifted from being more restrictive to more liberal in its...

Chapter 1: Introduction -- Chapter 2: Business Environment -- Chapter 3: Historical Perspective on Doing Business in Bangladesh -- Chapter 4: Historical Perspective on Doing Business in Sri Lanka -- Chapter 5: Cultural Issues Affecting Business Activity in Bangladesh -- Chapter 6: Cultural...

One of the key threads in the UNFCCC discussions has been reducing the negative impacts of the implementation of response measures. This paper explores how that might be accomplished by means of trade-related economic diversification policies. It explores the new realities of trade distributed...

Even though the Paris Agreement does not include any trade-related provisions, trade has the potential to play a major role in the implementation of the response measures enshrined by the Parties in their Nationally Determined Contributions (NDCs), while creating opportunities for many countries...

The increased importance of environmental protection led to the introduction of sustainability-related criteria in standard-setting practices. A discomfort with the functioning, working methods and certain rigidities of the global standardizing bodies such as the ISO led to a mushrooming of a...