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About fifty years after the independence of most former colonies on the African continent, books on African nationalism again rank high on the agenda of the international academic discussion. A selection of three recent publications demonstrates the advances made in scholarly analysis in the...
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This paper will discuss the features and the trends of Portugal?s future maritime activities in the context of a political process related to the enlargement of the continental shelf. It is our belief that the extension of Portugal?s continental shelf will have a multidimensional impact over a...
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. The crisis evidenced the deficiencies of the European Union Asylum Policy, which struggled both to offer solutions to …
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policy response. It answers the following questions: What are the different forms of corruption? What drives corruption? What …
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In spite of their growing importance in international trade as well as in bilateral and multilateral trade negotiations, services have only attracted limited attention from researchers interested in determinants of trade policies and trade cooperation. This paper seeks to account for countries'...
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The paper discusses the efforts deployed in 2008 and 2009 by various players, Governments, multilateral financial institutions, regional development banks, export credit agencies, to mobilize sufficient flows of trade finance to off-set some of the 'pull-back' by commercial institutions in the...
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Decision making in the WTO has become ever more difficult as the number of members increases and the range of issues tackled broadens. This paper looks at reasons why aspects of decision-making might be changed and discusses a number of potential pitfalls that change would have to avoid, such as...
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Policy commitment and credibility are important for inducing agents to make costly, irreversible investments. Policy … uncertainty can delay investment and reduce the response to policy change. I provide theoretical and novel quantitative evidence … for these effects by focusing on trade policy, a ubiquitous but often overlooked source of uncertainty, when a firm's cost …
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Since the conclusion of the Uruguay Round in 1994 and the creation of the WTO in 1995, the functioning of the multilateral trading system has been the focus of a considerable number of articles, proposals and debates. With the exception of a few important initiatives on transparency and...
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This paper examines the role of competition law and policy as tools for poverty reduction and development. The authors … Policy when that body was active from 1997 through 2003. Together, these principles comprise the holistic approach to … competition law and policy which is referenced in the title of the paper: * First, the focus of policy makers in using competition …
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