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Defining Development in WTO Law : The Legality and Parameters of Labour Rights Conditionality in the Generalised System of Preferences
O'Brien, Brynn - 2012
This paper argues that GSP labour rights conditionality is in conformity with WTO law. This hinges on the critical question of whether the realisation of labour standards can meet a ‘development need,' a term considered by the WTO Appellate Body report in the EC – Tariffs Preferences case,...
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The Foreign Trade
Kharina, Karina - 2013
In a situation of slowdown of global trade growth, growth in the Russian foreign trade turnover is declining, as well. It is to be noted that though during seven months of this year trade with far abroad countries showed positive dynamics there was a recession in relations with CIS states. The...
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Global Trade Finance, Trade Collapse and Trade Slowdown : A Granger Causality Analysis
Đào, Kim Tùng - 2018
This research paper provides a causality assessment on the linkage between declines in world trade finance and the world trade collapse in the period following the Financial Crisis of 2008 and 2009 as well as the ensuing global trade slowdown. The paper performs Granger Causality tests on two...
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The Slowdown in Global Trade : A Symptom of a Weak Recovery
Aslam, Aqib - 2018
Global trade growth has slowed since 2012 relative both to its strong historical performance and to overall economic growth. This paper aims to quantify the role of weak economic growth and changes in its decomposition in accounting for the slowdown in trade using a reduced form and a structural...
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Chapter 22. A Global View of Economic Growth
Ventura, Jaume - 2005
This paper integrates in a unified and tractable framework some of the key insights of the field of international trade and economic growth. It examines a sequence of theoretical models that share a common description of technology and preferences but differ on their assumptions about trade...
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Trade restrictions and economic development : a study of the effectiveness of trade barriers
Monadjemi, Mehdi S.; Lodewijks, John Kees - In: Expert journal of economics 8 (2020) 1, pp. 18-23
Countries pass through different stages of structural transformation. In the early stage of development, economic activity is dominated by agriculture and mining. As a country develops, firms adopt new technology and move toward industrialization and faster economic growth. Eventually, the...
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Debunking Protectionist Myths : Free Trade, the Developing World, and Prosperity
Panagariya, Arvind - 2020
More than 170 years ago, Frédéric Bastiat noted in his masterly work Economic Sophisms that the “opposition to free trade rests upon errors, or, if you prefer, upon half-truths.”1 Ever since Adam Smith successfully replaced mercantilist orthodoxy with free trade doctrine in his celebrated...
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Beyond Trading in Telecom for Sustainable Development
Haroon, Yousaf - 2014
This paper is an effort to capture the canvas of GATS and its interrelationship with over all trade value chain and MNC business models. Looking at the patterns of services trade, it is interesting to note that on one end, the improvements in telecom infrastructure facilitate new ways to export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014028174
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A new index of globalization : measuring impacts of integration on economic growth and income inequality
Huh, Hyeon-seung; Park, Cyn-Young - 2019
The purpose of this study is twofold. The first is to develop a new composite index of globalization based on data on 158 economies over the period 2006−2014. The second intention is to use the new index to evaluate empirically the possible effects of globalization on economic growth and...
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The (Unnoticed?) Contradictory Overlapping of International and Domestic Rules on FDI : Getting the Legal Facts Right
Fernandez-Pons, Xavier; Torrent, Ramon - 2012
, showing how the development of EC/EU law has blurred the clear distinction between them initially established in the Treaty of … be addressed; and it seems unacceptable that, in application of existing EU law, EU Member States violate systematically … and permanently the BITs to which they are Parties. c) A revision of the approach followed both by the EU legislator and …
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