This paper is interested to introduce an alternative free trade agreement framework to promote the fast economic growth and the reduction of poverty in the least developed countries (LDC’s). This new scheme of free trade agreement is called “The Nano-Free Trade Territory (NFTT)”. The main...

This paper investigates the nexus between health care households’ expenditure and GSP for Italian regions during 1980-2009, using time series and panel econometric techniques. After a brief introduction and a survey of the economic literature on this issue, we discuss the data and briefly...

While political attempts to insert a human rights clause into the WTO law framework have not been successful so far, such clauses have been included into free trade agreements and unilateral trade instruments, such as the system of generalised preferences. The present paper analyses the human...