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The Environmental Impacts of Protected Area Policy
Reynaert, Mathias; Rodrigues, Eduardo Augusto de Souza; … - National Bureau of Economic Research - 2023
The world has pledged to protect 30 percent of its land and waters by 2030 to halt the rapid deterioration of critical … summarize empirical evidence across multiple regions of the world. In most cases, protection has had at most a modest impact on … econometric advancements, shifting focus to direct measures of biodiversity, filling the knowledge gap on the effect of protected …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014437004
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Beyond Goods and Services : Competition Policy, Investment, Mutual Recognition, Movement of Persons, and Broader Cooperation Provisions of Recent FTAs involving ASEAN Countries
Banda, O. G. Dayaratna - 2005
We discuss recent bilateral, regional, and country trade, partnership, and economic agreements involving both ASEAN as a single entity and individual ASEAN countries (Singapore, Thailand, Malaysia) focusing on their reach beyond conventional trade in goods and services issues. What emerges is of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012467453
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Competitive Liberalization and a US-SACU FTA
Whalley, John - 2003
This paper evaluates a possible US-SACU (Southern African Customs Union) free trade agreement as part of a US approach to new preferential trade agreements characterized by the term competitive liberalization.' This is the idea that competition among large countries (US/EU) to negotiate...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012468526
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Numerical General Equilibrium Analysis of China's Impacts from Possible Mega Trade Deals
Li, Chunding - 2014
This paper explores the potential impacts on both China and other major countries of possible mega trade deals. These include the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP), the Regional Comprehensive Economic Partnership (RCEP), and various blocked deals. We use a numerical 13-country global general...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012458242
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Free Trade, Growth, and Convergence
Ben-David, Dan - 1997
What is the impact on output of movement towards free trade? Can trade liberalization have a permanent effect on output levels, and more importantly, does it have an impact on steady-state growth rates? The model developed here emphasizes the role" that knowledge spillovers emanating from...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472719
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Why Do Countries Seek Regional Trade Agreements?
Whalley, John - 1996
This paper emphasizes the range of factors which enter country calculations to seek regional trading arrangements. These include conventional access benefits, but extend to safe haven concerns, the use of trade arrangements to underpin security arrangements, and tactical interplay between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473304
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Regional Trading Arrangement : Natural or Super-Natural?
Frankel, Jeffrey A. - 1996
lower than under the MFN status quo. Estimates from the gravity model suggest the world system may already be in the super …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012473433
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American Regionalism and Global Free Trade
Leamer, Edward E. - 1994
A free trade agreement supports global free trade since trade barriers tend to divert trade in favor of members, but not reduce imports. The term: 'mutual assured deterrence' is used to refer to a regional free trade association that has the feature that no member can gain individually from the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474172
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The New Regionalism : Trade Liberalization or Insurance?
Perroni, Carlo - 1994
Several of the recently negotiated regional trade agreements (Canada-U.S., NAFTA, E.C.-Hungary/Poland/Czeck and Slovak Republics) contain significantly fewer concessions by the large countries to smaller countries than vice versa. Yet, it is small countries that have sought them and see...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012474308
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Carbon, Trade Policy, and Carbon Free Trade Areas
Dong, Yan - 2008
, forms and possible impacts of each variant. We also speculate as to how the world trading system may evolve in the next few …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012464216