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Sustainable development impact of trade and investment liberalization in Asia and the Pacific
Narayanan, Badri; Duval, Yann; Kravchenko, Alexey; … - 2017
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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Trade, poverty eradication, and the sustainable development goals
Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2016
This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty eradication using microeconomic and macroeconomic mechanisms and the effects of trade and trade policy on consumer prices, producer prices, and wages. As these mechanisms affect the real...
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A more sustainable energy strategy for India
Ahluwalia, Montek S.; Gupta, Himanshu; Stern, Nicholas H. - 2016
The COP-21 meeting in Paris produced an important result. For the first time all countries developed and developing agreed to take some mitigation action. However even if all countries deliver on what they have promised by 2030 and progress thereafter continues only at the same rate global...
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Global Sustainable Development and Trade Agreements : Toward a Green Bargain
Trachtman, Joel P. - 2022
Trade is a tool to increase human welfare and development, but is increasingly being harnessed also to achieve broad environmental and social sustainability. This paper evaluates the modern relationship between trade and distribution of wealth, on the one hand, and trade and sustainable...
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Harnessing digital trade to advance the sustainable development goals : an empirical study
Witada Anukoonwattaka; Romao, Pedro; Shahu, Nikita; … - 2024
Trade's profound digital transformation has spurred a new era of digital trade. However, little is known about the impact of digital trade and related policies on sustainable development. To investigate this, our exploratory study employs Fixed-Effects (FE) regressions, linking digital trade...
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Thoughts on how trade, and WTO rules, can contribute to the post-2015 development agenda
Roberts, Michael - 2014 - Manuscript date: 13 June 2014
date. Indeed, sustainable development is recognized as an objective in the Marrakesh Agreement Establishing the World Trade …
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Sustaining Multilateral Trade Cooperation in a Multipolar World Economy
Hoekman, Bernard - 2014
The deadlock in the WTO Doha Round has been accompanied by an increased focus on the negotiation of preferential trade agreements, including so-called ‘mega-regionals'. This paper discusses possible implications for — and possible responses by — excluded countries that have little...
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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development
Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011
the developing world while permitting lavish subsidies and import-restrictive tariffs in industrialized countries. This … developing world. It chronicles the patterns of trade and production that contribute to this problem from the colonial period … International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, and the World Trade Organization (WTO) exacerbate hunger and environmental …
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Sustaining Trade Reform : Institutional Lessons from Peru and Argentina
Baracat, Elias - 2013
The paper looks at how trade reform has gone in Peru and Argentina since the reforms of the 1990s. Peru provides a valuable example of sustaining reform. Argentina, on the other hand, has gone back to a protectionist trade regime that eschews WTO governance principles. The paper brings out the...
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New Is Old? The EU’s Open, Sustainable, and Assertive Trade Policy
Eliasson, L. Johan; Garcia-Duran, Patricia - 2023
The European Commission presented its Open, Sustainable, and Assertive (OSA) trade policy strategy in early 2021, heralding the document as representing a new and strategic approach to countering dependency and strengthening resiliency. We analyse the OSA through policy paradigms, making two...
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