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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,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010430680
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Reviving and Reorienting Growth after the Pandemic : The Role of Local Infrastructure Investments
Bilotta, Nicola; Pozzolo, Alberto F. - 2021
As many countries are seeing the first signs of recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, they are also shifting their policies from limiting the immediate economic impact of the pandemic on households and businesses to designing strategies that will revive long-term growth. Systemic challenges, such...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013235133
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Energy Security, Green Job Creation, and Youth Innovation
Burleson, Elizabeth - 2013
Global energy demand is likely to increase by 45 percent by 2030. Climate change will threaten existing employment and necessitate new green jobs. Funding has gone towards such renewable energy technologies as wind and solar; such fuel economy options as second-generation hybrids, plug-in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012753535
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Estimating causal effects of BRI infrastructure projects based on the synthetic control method
Kleimann, Martin; Li, Yuan; Schmerer, Hans-Jörg - 2020
transportation in Piraeus is very significant. Although the quantitative evidence shows a rather modest effect on employment before … local road transport. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012289890
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How Far Goods Travel : Global Transport and Supply Chains from 1965-2020
Ganapati, Sharat; Wong, Woan Foong - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
This paper considers the evolution of global transportation usage over the past half century and its implications for … supply chains. Transportation usage per unit of real output has more than doubled as costs decreased by a third … endogenous responses from transportation costs and supply chain linkages. Supply chains involving more countries and longer …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014250184
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Globalization and Hegemony Shift : Are States Merely Agents of Corporate Capitalism?
Acharya, Upendra D. - 2014
Since the advent of state sovereignty with the Peace of Westphalia, powerful Western nations have determined and applied international law in a manner that advance their national interests. In short, the international legal process has been a mechanism of hegemony, and powerful Western nations...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013063806
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Globalisation and National Environmental Policy : Update and Overview
Wijen, Frank; Zoeteman, Kees; Pieters, Jan H. M.; Van … - 2011
After outlining recent developments and the scope, target audience, and structure of the book, we review the literature on globalisation and environmental policy, especially the impact of globalisation on the environment and changes in environmental governance in relation to increasingly global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014175742
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Emerging Law Addressing Climate Change and Water
Burleson, Elizabeth - 2015
The World Economic Forum recognizes that while restrictions on energy affect water systems and vise versa, energy and water policy are rarely coordinated. The International Panel on Climate Change predicts that wet places will become wetter and dry places will become dryer. Transboundary water,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014196020
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Flexible Citizenship for a Global Society
Frey, Bruno S. - 2004
States are ill equipped to meet the challenges of a globalized world. The concept of citizenship with its rights and obligations, including the allegiance owed, is too narrowly defined to exist only between individuals and a state. Today, people identify with, and pay allegiance to, many...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014122498
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Data Spaces and Democracy
Calzada, Igor - 2019
AI is now an important component of sectors such as healthcare, agriculture, public administration and transportation …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014032665