This paper examines the U.S. textile industry's quest for import restraints. It considers significant legislation and voting patterns in Congress during the last decades of the 20th century. The following is an abridged version of the paper presented at the 12th International Conference,...

This study employed Markov analysis to investigate changes in market shares held by primary world regions supplying apparel to the U.S. market. Movement in market shares among six world regions providing eighteen categories of apparel were examined for the time period 1989-2001. The East Asian...

As a result of rapid technological advances, widespread regulatory change and continuing globalization of the world economy over the last twenty years, we have witnessed a resumption in the growth in living standards in most countries from their stalled levels in the 1970s. Unfortunately, these...

This paper discusses some broad conceptual challenges that need to be addressed in order for the world to benefit more from the ongoing process of globalization. At the broadest level, the theme of this paper is that globalization requires a complementary institutional infrastructure that needs...

A review of the existing scientific literature regarding world trade, both theoretical and empirical, demonstrates the existence of a growing link between trade and protection of the natural environment, in both positive and negative directions. Some authors voice the opinion that accelerated...

The central argument of this paper is that regional economic integration must be complemented by the creation of regional frameworks for environmental management. Beyond working to expand market access, APEC countries must cooperate to create conditions which provide incentives for sustainable...

This paper endeavors to indicate the current state of the argument concerning global labor standards, identify the two international bodies under whose auspices the issue is most likely to reside, and to review the ways in which multinational businesses have been forced to operate in the...

A comparison of estimated import-demand equations between the U.S. and its main trading partners shows that the U.S. has a higher income elasticity of import demand than its trading partners; and that its elasticity exhibited a quantum jump in the years since 1995. Thus, if all countries...

The existence of equilibrium for majority rule is shown under the assumption of a certain condition of pairwise symmetry and without restricting the number of voters to only odd cases. Plott had studied a special case of this problem by placing a strict symmetry condition on the preferences of...

This paper was presented at the 11th International Conference of the International Trade and Finance Association in Washington, D.C., May 26 to 29, 2001.