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The case for creating a Working Party on the Functioning of the WTO
Pedersen, Peter N. - 2011
few important initiatives on transparency and decision-making, most contributions on the functioning of the WTO have been …Since the conclusion of the Uruguay Round in 1994 and the creation of the WTO in 1995, the functioning of the … made by external observers of the WTO. However, over the past two years, an increasing number of Members have showed …
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Competition policy and poverty reduction: A holistic approach
Anderson, Robert D.; Müller, Anna Caroline - 2013
addition to the earlier work done on these topics in the WTO Working Group on the Interaction between Trade and Competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010326814
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Surviving the Turbulence Is Not Enough: Can Côte d'Ivoire Flourish Again?
Constant, Amelie F.; Tien, Bienvenue N. - 2011
Côte d'Ivoire is the world's largest producer and exporter of cocoa beans, it accounts for 40% of the WAEMU's output, and 11% of its population are immigrant workers. Any political instability in the country will not only affect the domestic economy, but it will also affect the international...
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The revised WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA): Key design features and significance for global trade and development
Anderson, Robert D.; Müller, Anna Caroline - 2017
The WTO's plurilateral Agreement on Government Procurement ("the GPA" or "the Agreement") is an important ongoing … widely used in other WTO Agreements. Apart from the above, the GPA revision is important for the merging of trade and good … participating WTO Member governments. …
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Aid for trade and Africa's trade performance: Evidence from bilateral trade flows with China and OECD countries
Lemi, Adugna - In: Journal of African Trade 4 (2017) 1/2, pp. 37-60
The optimism surrounding aid for trade (AfT) led scholars and practitioners to probe its link with trade performance of aid-recipient countries in Africa. In the absence of formal evaluation guidelines, most previous studies, using aggregate data, have looked into the impacts of AfT on exports...
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On the effects of sanctions on trade and welfare: New evidence based on structural gravity and a new database
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Syropoulos, Constantinos; Yalcin, Erdal - 2019
Using a new, global data base covering the years 1950 to 2015, we study the impact of sanctions on international trade and welfare. We make use of the rich dimensionality of our data and of the latest developments in the structural gravity literature. Starting with a broad evaluation by sanction...
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Trade Integration in the CIS: Alternate Options, Economic Effects and Policy Implications for Belarus, Kazakhstan, Russia and Ukraine
Astrov, Vasily; Havlik, Peter; Pindyuk, Olga - 2012
A functioning Belarus-Russia-Kazakhstan Customs Union (BRK-CU) would comprise the bulk of the FSU economy and represent a significant step towards an attempted re-integration of the FSU – even more so if Ukraine were also to join. There are still important structural differences in...
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Changing fortunes: Long-termism - G-Zero, artificial intelligence and debt
Poloz, Stephen S. - 2019
This paper looks at the implications for monetary policy of the widespread adoption of artificial intelligence and machine learning, which is sometimes called the "fourth industrial revolution". The paper reviews experiences from the previous three industrial revolutions, developing a template...
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The Global Sanctions Data Base. Release 3: COVID-19, Russia, and multilateral sanctions
Syropoulos, Constantinos; Felbermayr, Gabriel; … - 2022
This paper introduces the third update/release of the Global Sanctions Data Base (GSDB-R3). The GSDB-R3 extends the period of coverage from 1950-2019 to 1950-2022, which includes two special periods - COVID-19 and the war between Russia and Ukraine. The new update of the GSDB contains a total of...
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Indien: Eine Alternative zu China?
Menkhoff, Lukas; Wagner, Christian - In: Wirtschaftsdienst 103 (2023) 1, pp. 62-67
Die Spannungen in der Weltwirtschaft und die Sorge um eine zu starke wirtschaftliche Abhängigkeit Europas von China rücken Indien in den Blickpunkt. Dort leben knapp 18 % der Weltbevölkerung in einer demokratischen Staatsform. Allerdings beträgt die Größe des Marktes bestenfalls ein...
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