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Rebuilding Global Trade : Proposals for a Fairer, More Sustainable Future

Deere Birkbeck, Carolyn; Meléndez-Ortiz, Ricardo - 2009

' deliberations, this collection assembled short essays from a broad range of scholars and experts around the world. Contributing …

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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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Sustainable Standard-Setting, Climate Change and the TBT Agreement

Delimatsis, Panos - 2016

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...

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The Role of WTO in Sustainable Development Governance, Revisited

Lee, Soo-hyun - 2019

International legal mechanisms in trade dispute resolution, such as the instruments of the WTO, must now, more than ever, take into consideration a wider range of interests that may very well complicate procedural aspects of the rule of law in trade disputes. Institutions such as these must...

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Trade Liberalization, Food Security and the Environment : The Neoliberal Threat to Sustainable Rural Development

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2011

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 … earnings needed to finance the import of food and other necessities to fluctuating world market prices for agricultural …

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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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