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Defining Development in WTO Law : The Legality and Parameters of Labour Rights Conditionality in the Generalised System of Preferences

O'Brien, Brynn - 2012

This paper argues that GSP labour rights conditionality is in conformity with WTO law. This hinges on the critical question of whether the realisation of labour standards can meet a ‘development need,' a term considered by the WTO Appellate Body report in the EC – Tariffs Preferences case,...

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Untangling the Mutatis Mutandis Principle in Free Trade Agreements : Using the WTO to Understand FTAs

Barbosa, Juan - 2012

mutandis from the World Trade Organization (WTO) agreements. The incorporation of a WTO provision under this expression makes …

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Technical Barriers to Trade Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements

Ting, Lee Ti - 2012

The proliferation of regional trade agreements (“RTAs”) behoves all WTO members to assess the extent to which RTAs depart from fundamental principles in the WTO such as the most-favoured-nation (“MFN”) treatment in the GATT and in particular, the WTO Agreement on Technical Barriers to...

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Private Standardization and International Trade in Goods : Any WTO Law Implications for Domestic Regulation?

Kudryavtsev, Arkady - 2012

. First, it briefly describes the diverse ‘world' of private-sector standards. Then, it addresses the implications of WTO law …

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Are World Trading Rules Passé?

Cho, Sungjoon - 2013

This Article probes the previously underexplored failure of the world trading rules to keep abreast with the global …

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Public Health Regulation : The Impact of Intersections between Trade & Investment Treaties in Asia

Hsu, Locknie - 2014

There has been an explosive growth of free trade agreements (FTAs) in recent years. The World Trade Report 2011 of the … World Trade Organization (WTO) shows Asian members to be among the most active in signing preferential trade agreements …

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South Africa and the World Trade Organisation Anti-Dumping Agreement

Ndlovu, Lonias - 2014

This paper explores and analyses the position of South Africa in relation to the World Trade Organisation (WTO) dispute …

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Trade and Credit : Revisiting the Evidence

Gutiérrez Chacón, Eduardo - 2019

This paper explores the effects of bank lending shocks on export behavior of Spanish firms. For that purpose, we combine Balance of Payments data on exports at the firm product-destination level with a matched bank-firm dataset incorporating information on the universe of corporate loans from...

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African Countries in the World Trading System : International Trade, Domestic Institutions and the Role of International Law

Desta, Melaku G. - 2015

This article addresses an important and complex subject relating to the link between international law and economic development. There is broad agreement that trade liberalization and participation in foreign markets play an important role in economic development. Countries in Sub-Saharan Africa...

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R&D Subsidies : A Law & Economics Analysis of Regional and International Rules

Caiado, Jose; Berghaus, Thomas - 2014

This paper addresses the question of what the current international legal systems concerning subsidies for innovation … are and whether these fit the findings of economic analysis. Innovation is a very relevant economic instrument toward … achieving innovation may not be undertaken on a socially optimal level by private firms. This is because the social benefits of …

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