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This Working Paper contains some observations concerning the evolution of trade and trade-related policies in the Asia-Pacific region since the establishment in 1989 of the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM), whose goal is to improve the transparency of these policies. It also draws some...
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international organizations investigated here also influence SO2 emissions, water pollution, and round wood production …
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Trade Agreements (PTAs). Our focus is on applying the gravity model to analyze India’s trade flows (exports and imports …) with its trading partners around the world and to examine the impact of various PTAs in which India or its trading partner … or both are members. Clearly this is of interest, since, from 1991 India is aggressively negotiating and concluding PTAs …
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I evaluate India's transition from an inward-oriented development strategy to greater participation in the world … economy. While tariff rates have decreased significantly over the past decade, India is still one of the more autarkic … countries. Despite improvement over the past in export performance, India continues to lag behind its South- and East Asian …
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developing countries during the latter’s catching-up process (know as ‘flying geese theory’). Under the look-east policy of India …, it has been autonomously decreasing the trade barriers since the 1990s. India and ASEAN signed an FTA in 2010 and … by analysing India’s firm-wise OFDI flows to ASEAN and its ten members. Trade liberalisation under an FTA has been mainly …
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To anticipate the likely effects of recent trade agreements with Mexico on the environment and food safety, this paper examines changes in agricultural chemical use. Econometric estimation and simulation suggest that the combined effects of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA),...
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Vietnam has been among the most successful East Asian economies, especially in weathering the external shocks of recent globalization crises - the 1997-98 Asian financial crisis and the 2008-09 great recession, financial crisis and collapse of global trade. Its success contradicts its...
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This paper investigates if differences in environmental regulations can influence FDI flows in a multi-country setting taking into account the so-called "third-country" effects. We examine bilateral FDI flows using a new extended OECD investment database which covers great number of host...
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Addressing the relationship between domestic environmental regulations and international trade policies is essential to better understand the need for consistency and complementarity between these areas. The set of trade and environment indicators developed by the OECD aims to provide insights...
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of environmental policy stringency which links our analysis to the "Pollution Haven" hypothesis. We also briefly analyse …
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