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the generalized system of preferences and through the World Trade Organization arbitration court are studied. The impact …, accelerated development of the global trade, the new role of the EU in the global economy. The legal and institutional framework … of the CCP is studied. There is a focus on the tasks in the traditional fields of the trade policy – liberalization of …
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This paper considers the challenges confronting LDCs in meeting the adaptation and mitigation requirements brought on by the climate crisis and addresses the question as to whether the Least Developed Country Fund (LDCF), which is a key source of LDC climate adaptation finance, is still fit for...
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progress . The Bretton Woods Institutions (World Bank, IMF, GATT) were based on a post World War II model . They encouraged one … national donations based on taxes, a model that no longer works well . At the same time the globalization of the world economy …
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Many of the present difficulties of the world economy have been blamed on the two oil-price explosions of the 1970s …
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This study analyzes the impact of trade on cross-country inequality using a panel data set from 65 developing counties … over a long period 1970-2008. This study differs from the existing literature on distributional impact of trade by … explicitly noting the importance of development stage in shaping the link. The analysis shows that the effect of trade on …
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The dissatisfaction of developing countries with the new Trade Round surfaced first in the WTO meeting in Seattle in … bias in the world trading system against developing countries. Such bias prevailed right from the time of the inception of … industrializers and the failure of recent across-the-board and universal trade liberalization, he proposes the necessary changes in …
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This paper examines one possible explanation for intra-trade flows derived in light of an international environment … more general formulated Heckscher-Ohlin framework, in which intra-trade flows may be explained through product … differentiation while conventional explanations apply to inter-industry trade (see e.g. Helpman (1981), (1984), Kierzkowski (1984 …
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Panel data on 54 developing countries between 1960 and 2000 are used to investigate how the impact of opening to trade … on economic growth is affected by wealth inequality. The results suggest (a) that opening to trade tends to accelerate …
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Agriculture sector plays a vital role in the world economy and provides food for every one of us. The World Trade … Organization (WTO) is important body in the international trade and agriculture. Surprisingly, the Agreement on Agriculture (AoA …) of WTO does not refer to food and agriculture at all. Agricultural subsidies and trade become controversial issues in the …
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markets to international trade and foreign investment. Yet most countries have not simply opened up their markets. They have … favor some industries over others. This leads to the following question: is openness to trade and FDI alone sufficient to … developing countries benefit from abandoning policy neutrality vis-a-vis trade, FDI and resource allocation across industries. …
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