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WTO rules and practices for transparency and engagement with civil society organizations

Perez-Esteve, Maria - 2012 - Manuscript date: 26 July 2012

In a rapidly changing trade environment, marked by economic slowdown and impasse in the Doha Round, the success of the WTO in promoting and legitimizing the rules-based multilateral trading system rests, to a large extent, on maintaining effective relations with civil society, including...

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Preferentialism in trade relations : challenges for the World Trade Organization

Low, Patrick - 2014

This paper argues that preferential trade agreements (PTAs) and the World Trade Organization (WTO) are not substitutes …

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BRICs in the global economy under the prism of economic nationalism of IPE

Roukanas, Spyros A.; Diamantis, Gabriel V. - In: International journal of economic sciences and applied … 7 (2014) 1, pp. 51-67

Economy. Firstly, it aims to deepen our understanding of the emergence of the BRICs in the world economy. To this end, a … macroeconomic analysis is carried out with the aim of making clear the changes the BRICs have brought to the world economy. Secondly …, an analysis is made of the extent to which the global economic crisis has enhanced the role of the BRICs in the world …

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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs

Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...

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Trade policy uncertainty and the WTO

Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - 2014 - Manuscript date: 19 December 2014

Do WTO commitments reduce the risk of trade policy reversals? To address this question, we rely on the theoretical model of varying cooperative tariffs by Bagwell and Staiger (1990) to specify our empirical model for the probability of a tariff increase. We then study how WTO tariff commitments...

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Trade policy uncertainty and the WTO

Groppo, Valeria; Piermartini, Roberta - 2014

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China and the World Trading System

Subramanian, Arvind - 2011

Until recently, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has been an effective framework for cooperation because it has …

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WTO Decision - Making for the Future

Low, Patrick - 2011

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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WTO Rules and Practices for Transparency and Engagement with Civil Society Organizations

Perez-Esteve, Maria - 2012

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Investment Treaties and the Globalisation of State Capitalism : Opportunities and Constraints for Host States

Skovgaard Poulsen, Lauge N. - 2012

The growing stock of foreign investments by sovereign wealth funds and state-owned enterprises poses regulatory challenges to the international investment regime. With arbitrators seemingly keen on expanding the jurisdictional scope of investment treaty arbitration to cover a wide range of...

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