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Busse, Matthias - 2003

Many believe that multinational enterprises insensitively ignore political rights and civil liberties in the countries of their investments. Frequently, non-governmental organisations accuse multinationals of fostering repressive regimes in developing countries and consider foreign direct...

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Principal-Agent-Probleme in internationalen Organisationen

Vaubel, Roland - 2003

Der Aufsatz zeigt anhand zahlreicher Beispiele und quantitativer Analysen, dass internationale Organisationen – mehr als alle anderen staatlichen Institutionen – ein extremes Kontrolldefizit aufweisen. Umfragen belegen, dass sie andere Interessen als die Bürger haben. Sie können diese...

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Kyoto-Protokoll, Wettbewerb und WTO-Handelssystem

Shin, Soonjae - 2003

Es wird häufig angenommen, dass nationale und grenzüberschreitende Klimapolitik, die aufgrund des Kyoto-Protokolls in den Industriestaaten eingeführt wird, durch die Einschränkung der Nutzung fossiler Energieträger ökonomische Kosten verursacht. Damit kann es zwischen den...

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Telecommunications-Related Services: Market Access, Deeper Integration and the WTO

Braga, Carlos A P; Fink, Carsten; Hoekman, Bernhard - 2002

how the multilateral system under the World Trade Organization can help developing countries in promoting their own …

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Non-Tariff Barriers and the Telecommunications Sector

Stephenson, Sherry M. - 2002

This paper discusses the nature, importance, and measurement of non-tariff barriers (NTBs) in services trade with particular reference to telecommunications services. It is shown that although more effectively addressed for the telecom sector at the multilateral level than for other service...

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The political economy of the enhanced HIPC-initiative

Michaelowa, Katharina - 2002

Only three years after its initial endorsement by the World Bank and the IMF in 1996, the Heavily Indebted Poor Country …

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Liberalization in telecommunications

Knorr, Andreas - 2002

During the past two decades, international trade in telecommunication services has significantly intensified. What is more, an increasing number of telecommunications operators have begun to expand their activities beyond national borders through FDIs, joint ventures, and cooperation agreements....

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The development and implementation of IMF and World Bank conditionality

Dreher, Axel - 2002

The paper presents a detailed description of IMF and World Bank conditionality and tries to explain changes in this … conditions seem to be influenced by contemporaneous World Bank activity. Moreover, the paper tries to explain compliance with … World Bank conditionality as well as interruptions of IMF programs in the recipient countries. Compliance with World Bank …

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Investment policies and telecommunications regimes

Drabek, Zdenek - 2002

telecommunications industry. We analyse in particular the role of the WTO agreement in furthering liberalization around the world, and …

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Is it time for a world currency?

Shams, Rasul - 2002

recent opposite views on the appropriateness of a common world currency for this purpose. Referring to an adequately … formulated theory of world money, it is shown that there is presently no alternative to a flexible exchange rate system. This … system might, under specific conditions, gradually evolve into a world monetary system with a global currency. Developing …

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