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Implicações do mecanismo da OCDE de conduta empresarial responsável sobre a governança e o modo de atuação das EMNs
Garcia Ribeiro, Cássio; Inacio Junior, Edmundo - 2021
the Guidelines in 1997 and has since made efforts to adapt to the content of this OECD instrument geared towards MNCs. The …This report proposes to present and analyze the impacts of the set of standards and recommendations present in the … Guidelines for Multinational Companies (OECD, 2011). This document represents the main initiative carried out by a multilateral …
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Rethinking Global Climate Change Governance
Barrett, Scott - 2008
This paper explains why the approach taken so far to mitigate global climate change has failed. The central reason is an inability to enforce targets and timetables. Current proposals recommending even stricter emission limits will not help unless they are able to address the enforcement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298567
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Rethinking Global Climate Change Governance
Barrett, Scott - In: Economics: The Open-Access, Open-Assessment E-Journal 3 (2009) 2009-5, pp. 1-12
This paper explains why the approach taken so far to mitigate global climate change has failed. The central reason is an inability to enforce targets and timetables. Current proposals recommending even stricter emission limits will not help unless they are able to address the enforcement...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010298625
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The Impact of UN and US Economic Sanctions on GDP Growth
Neuenkirch, Matthias; Neumeier, Florian - 2015
In this paper, we empirically assess how economic sanctions imposed by the UN and the US affect the target states' GDP growth. Our sample includes 68 countries and covers the period 1976-2012. We find, first, that sanctions imposed by the UN have a statistically and economically significant...
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Indisputably essential: The economics of dispute settlement institutions in trade agreements
Keck, Alexander; Schropp, Simon - 2007
Economic theory has made considerable progress in explaining why sovereign countries cooperate in trade. Central to most theories of trade cooperation are issues of self-enforcement: The threat of reprisal by an aggrieved party maintains the initial balance of concessions and prevents...
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Trade skirmishes and safeguards: A theory of the WTO Dispute Settlement Process
Beshkar, Mostafa - 2009
I propose a framework within which to interpret and evaluate the major reforms introduced to the GATT system in its transition to the WTO. In particular, I examine the WTO Agreement on Safeguards that has replaced the GATT escape clause (Article XIX), and the Dispute Settlement Process (DSP)...
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Use of the WTO trade dispute settlement mechanism by the Latin American countries: Dispelling myths and breaking down barriers
Torres, Raúl A. - 2012
DSM; and have done so by coming up with innovative and creative solutions, without deviating from the guidelines …
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Poison in the wine? Tracing GATS-minus commitments in regional trade agreements
Adlung, Rudolf; Miroudot, Sébastien - 2012
Commitments in regional trade agreements (RTAs) that fall short of the same countries' obligations under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) are a relatively frequent phenomenon. However, they have gone widely unnoticed in the literature to date and drawn very little attention in...
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Assessing the Economic and Political Impacts of Climate Change on International River Basins using Surface Wetness in the Zambezi and Mekong Basins
Blankespoor, Brian; Basist, Alan; Dinar, Ariel; Dinar, … - 2014
Many river basins will likely face higher hydrologic variability, including extreme floods and droughts, due to climate change, with economic and political consequences. Water treaties that govern international basins could face non-compliance among riparians and inter-state tensions as...
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Hanging Together or Being Hung Separately: The Strategic Power of Coalitions where Bargaining Occurs with Incomplete Information
Konrad, Kai A.; Cusack, Thomas R. - 2013
What is the strategic role of membership in an intergovernmental group with unanimity requirements if the group negotiates with an external player in a setting with incomplete information? Being in such a group has a strategic effect compared to negotiating as a standalone player and reduces the...
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