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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs

Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...

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Do customs trade facilitation programmes help reduce customs-related corruption?

Michael, Bryane; Ferguson, Frank; Karimov, Alisher - 2012

Customs-related corruption costs World Customs Organisation (WCO) members at least $2 billion in customs revenue each … only help reduce corruption and improve efficiency - in a large number of customs agencies -- if the customs agency …'s director undertakes a big-bang approach to reform. We also find support for the corruption clubs theory - that customs agencies …

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Black women, globalization, and economic justice : studies from Africa and the African diaspora

Steady, Filomina Chioma (contributor) - 2002

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Measurement of globalization and its variations among countries, regions and over time

Bhandari, Amit Kumar (contributor); … - 2005

The process of globalization is an international economic order which has led to the progressive integration of the world economy through the pulling the barrier of trade and greater mobility of factors of production. In addition the technological innovation also provides impetus to the...

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Measurement of Globalization and its Variations Among Countries, Regions and Over Time

Bhandari, Amit K.; Heshmati, Almas - 2021

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Ökonomische Aufholprozesse: was erklären "weiche" Faktoren?

Siebe, Thomas - In: RWI-Mitteilungen : Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsforschung 48 (1998) 1, pp. 95-114

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Trade Liberalization and Economic Growth in Iranian Economy

Rahimi, Mohammad - 2011

The goal of this study is to investigate the effect of trade liberalization on economic growth in Iranian economy using a Cobb-Douglas production function, which is expanded to take into account political instability and trade liberalization. The empirical results show that in the long run the...

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Who votes for free trade and when? : geopolitics as the source of legislative preferences on free trade agreements

Kim, Sung Eun; Yang, Joonseok - In: Review of international political economy 30 (2023) 6, pp. 2257-2284

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Services trade and policy

Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2009

Since the mid-1980s a substantial body of research has taken shape on trade in services. Much of this is inspired by the WTO or regional trade agreements, especially the EU. However, an increasing number of papers focus on the impacts of unilateral services sector liberalization. The literature...

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Trade policy uncertainty and the WTO

Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - 2014 - Manuscript date: 19 December 2014

Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical model of varying cooperative tariffs by Bagwell and Staiger (1990) to specify our empirical model for the probability of a tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments...

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