WTO, Animals & PPMs offers a new analytical framework for GATT Article XX, which inter alia clarifies the legal and analytical problems attached to non-product related PPMs. The text covers the barriers countries can enact to protect animals (as animal welfare- or biodiversity protection) in the...

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Tables -- Preface -- 1 Background and History -- Factors Shaping the Trade Debate -- Free Trade -- Protectionism and Fair Trade -- Trade Surpluses and Deficits -- Trade Patterns -- Trade Politics -- Historical Overview -- American System of High...

Geared towards policy makers, researchers, academics, and business and management professionals, The Gains and Pains of Financial Integration and Trade Liberalization helps readers develop new theories and models for analysing the future trends in finance and trade-related issues.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Contributors -- Glossary of Abbreviations and Acronyms. -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Bangladesh -- 3. Sri Lanka -- 4. Pakistan -- 5. India -- Index -- Box -- Figures -- Tables.

Intro -- Contents -- Preface -- Acronyms -- 1 Introduction -- 2 The State in Action: Regulation's Origins and Effects -- 3 The State Withdraws: Critique and Reform in the United States -- 4 Deregulation, Discrimination, and Diplomacy: The Trucking War -- 5 The State Withdraws: Reform, Trade, and...

This volume introduces the gender dimension in the empirical analyses on the links between trade and poverty. Gender disparities, an important component of overall inequality, may limit the gains from trade and the potential benefits to poor people. This view is supported by the robust finding...

Built on rich data analyses, this book offers a fresh and in-depth explanation of how China's pro-reform leaders successfully launched controversial policies to promote private and foreign economic sectors, managed leadership conflict, and ensured reform in the provinces and rapid growth in the...

Rule-Makers Or Rule-Takers? -- TABLE OF CONTENTS -- List of Figures, Tables &amp -- Boxes -- List of Abbreviations -- About the Contributors -- Preface -- Part I. Rules, Norms, and Standards -- 1. Rule-makers or rule-takers? An introduction to TTIP -- 2. This time it's different: Turbo-charging...

Factually, the principal finding of this book is that the trade policy reforms introduced by Peru in the 1990s have continued over several changes of president, whereas similar reforms in Argentina have been reversed. In both countries, the reforms included the introduction of new mechanisms for...