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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
specific goals (including possible Sustainable Development Goals); and the contribution that Aid for Trade can make. …
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Women's economic empowerment : an inherent part of Aid for Trade
Der Boghossian, Anoush - 2019 - Manuscript date: 25 April 2019
Aid for Trade supports developing and least-developed countries in building their trade capacity and in increasing … organizations) and monitor impacts and effectiveness (with OECD and other international organizations). Through Aid for Trade, the … economic development. Gender equality is an inherent part of Aid for Trade. This has also been reflected in the Buenos Aires …
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Trade policies supporting women's economic empowerment : trends in WTO members
Der Boghossian, Anoush - 2019 - Manuscript date: 25 April 2019
This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment. The analysis below is based on the information provided by WTO Members as part of their Trade Policy Review (TPRs) process from 2014 to 2018. Reports from the WTO Secretariat,...
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Multilateral development aid : assessing the major replenishments of 2016
Manning, Richard - 2017
This survey of the 2016 replenishments of three multilateral development bank soft funds and of the Global Fund for AIDS, TB and Malaria shows that a significant re-set of the multilateral development finance system is taking place, with grant funding from traditional donors generally in decline...
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Aid and violence reduction
Hoeffler, Anke - 2023
on domestic and international policy agendas. When analysing the allocation of aid by purpose, it is obvious that donors …. Almost no aid is targeted at suicide prevention and less than one per cent of total official development assistance is …
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A Rough Guide to Global Intellectual Property Pluralism
Chon, Margaret - 2020
Almost everyone can agree that the original connection of intellectual property to trade was for purely economically instrumental purposes but few would have predicted its other consequences, particularly the reshaped relationship of intellectual property’s innovation mandate to the production...
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Climate Change and International Trade
Leal-Arcas, Rafael - 2013
This book is unique in that it uses trade as a tool to move the climate agenda forward, by presenting the following two new approaches to climate change mitigation: 1) a bottom-up approach to climate change and 2) using regional trade agreements (RTAs) to promote climate change mitigation. The...
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From International Competitive Carrier to the WTO : A Survey of the Fcc's International Telecommunications Policy Initiatives 1985-1998
Spiwak, Lawrence J. - 2004
With the creation and implementation of the February 1997 World Trade Organization Agreement on Basic Telecommunications Services (the February Accord or WTO Agreement), the international telecommunications community has (at least on paper) promised ostensibly to move away from markets...
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A Globalist Manifesto for Public Policy
Calomiris, Charles W. - 2011
The worldwide trend towards privatisation, liberalisation and globalisation has produced substantial economic benefits. Nevertheless, liberalisation has had its shortcomings and there are potential threats to further progress, including in particular an anti-liberalisation backlash. Continuing...
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Politics and IMF conditionality
Dreher, Axel; Sturm, Jan-Egbert; Vreeland, James Raymond - 2013 - This version: June 2013
Bailouts sponsored by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) are famous for their conditionality: in return for continued installments of desperately needed loans, governments must comply with austere policy changes. Many have suggested, however, that politically important countries face rather...
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