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-owned enterprises, including subsidies in services trade in other on-going trade negotiations. The new regime makes us think hard about …
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reflection, several related options: (i) the built-in mandate in the GATS for negotiations on services procurement (Article XIII … regional negotiations. Overall, we find that each of these possibilities has potential merits, though none is without related …
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This paper provides a legal analysis of the significance of standards, technical regulations and SPS provisions (collectively, "TBTSPS") in regional trade agreements ("RTAs") in relation to the multilateral trading system. From a normative perspective, it examines the way in which RTA regulation...
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from WTO membership in terms of improved market access for traditional exports are likely to be limited. However, by …
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and tilted the world into a deep recession, if not, a 1930s-style depression. Others have claimed that the greenhouse … Soviet bloc into the world economy; and, two, the acceleration of technological innovations (as exemplified by the revolution … in information technology). The new global equilibrium could be a win-win outcome for the world but the process of moving …
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For many years now, lack of progress in multilateral trade negotiations has been a major cause of concern among WTO … must be taken by consensus and the full membership must be involved at every stage. Decision making by consensus is a … solution to the problem of process in negotiations by sidestepping the requirement for a consensus. The paper gives a detailed …
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Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As...
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argue that trade negotiations are based on mercantilistic rules. But the actual outcome of the Uruguay Round suggests that …
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Krugman (1991, 1997) argues that international trade negotiations are based on mercantilist rules. Bhagwati (1988, 1995 …) highlights how nations are obsessed with reciprocity in their bargaining. Based on studying the trade negotiations process and … support for the "hegemon hypothesis:" to help maintain the world trading system, large countries tend to give more net …
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Competition policy, today, is an essential element of the legal and institutional framework for the global economy. Whereas decades ago, anti-competitive practices tended to be viewed mainly as a domestic phenomenon, most facets of competition law enforcement now have an important international...
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