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EVOLUTION OF NON-TARIFF MEASURES: EMERGING CASES FROM SELECTED DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

Basu, Sudip Ranjan; Dumesnil, Fabien - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development … - 2012

-tariff measure (NTM)-related trade policies. Research and analysis activities began in UNCTAD in the 1980s to define, classify and … been taken by UNCTAD in bringing together several international agencies and eminent persons to build consensus on these …

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THE ‘EMULATOR EFFECT’ OF THE URUGUAY ROUND ON UNITED STATES REGIONALISM

Fugazza, Marco; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development … - 2012

Using a detailed data set at the tariff line level, we find an emulator effect of multilateralism on subsequent regional trade agreements (RTAs) involving the United States. We exploit the variation in the frequency with which the United States grants immediate duty free access (IDA) to its RTA...

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Out of Thin Air? Tracing the Origins of the UNCTAD Principles in Customary International Law

Waibel, Michael - 2012

UNCTAD's Draft Principles are an innovative set of best practices for sovereign borrowing and lending. Independent of … UNCTAD Principles produced out of thin air? Despite some instances of state practice examined here, the project overall shows …

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Intellectual Property Provisions of Bilateral and Regional Trade Agreements in Light of U.S. Federal Law

Abbott, Frederick M. - 2011

During the past several years, the United States has concluded a substantial number of bilateral and regional free trade agreements (hereinafter “FTAs”), largely with developing countries. Each of those FTAs includes substantial commitments in the field of intellectual property rights (IPRs)...

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Non-Tariff Measures : Evidence from Selected Developing Countries and Future Research Agenda

DITC, UNCTAD, Trade Analysis Branch - 2011

opportunities, and to contribute to UNCTAD's overarching mission of upholding an open, equitable, rule-based, predictable and non … report by the Group of Eminent Persons on Non-Tariff Barriers (GNTB) to the Secretary-General of UNCTAD which was made … available at the meeting held on 5 November 2009 in Geneva. The report highlighted the key issues of the UNCTAD initiative in …

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The Influence of Preferential Trade Agreements on the Implementation of Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries : A First Look

Biadgleng, Ermias T. - 2011

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ASSURING FOOD SECURITY IN DEVELOPING COUNTRIES UNDER THE CHALLENGES OF CLIMATE CHANGE: KEY TRADE AND DEVELOPMENT ISSUES OF A FUNDAMENTAL TRANSFORMATION OF AGRICULTURE

Hoffmann, Ulrich - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development … - 2011

For a large number of developing countries, agriculture remains the single most important sector. Climate change has the potential to damage irreversibly the natural resource base on which agriculture depends, with grave consequences for food security. However, agriculture is the sector that has...

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AN OVERVIEW OF MAJOR SOURCES OF DATA AND ANALYSES RELATING TO PHYSICAL FUNDAMENTALS IN INTERNATIONAL COMMODITY MARKETS

Fajarnes, Pilar - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development … - 2011

The debate on whether price movements in commodity markets are determined by changes in physical supply and demand fundamentals or by the speculative effects of financial investors seems to find some element of agreement on one particular point: the need for increased transparency and improved...

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THE SCOPE FOR FOREIGN EXCHANGE MARKET INTERVENTIONS

Bofinger, Peter - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development … - 2011

The discussion on exchange rate policy is dominated by the so-called “impossible trinity”. According to this principle an autonomous monetary policy, a control over the exchange rate and free capital movements cannot be achieved simultaneously. In this paper, a strategy of managed floating...

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SOME REFLECTIONS ON CLIMATE CHANGE, GREEN GROWTH ILLUSIONS AND DEVELOPMENT SPACE

Hoffmann, Ulrich - United Nations Conference on Trade and Development … - 2011

Many economists and policy makers advocate a fundamental shift towards “green growth” as the new, qualitatively-different growth paradigm, based on enhanced material/resource/energy efficiency and drastic changes in the energy mix. “Green growth” may work well in creating new growth...

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