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agricultural trade negotiations set forth in the World Trade Organization Ministerial held in Doha, Qatar in November 2001. He … quite heterogeneous across developing regions. Shares of agriculture in GDP are still high in the East Asia and Pacific and … South Asia regions. Moreover, data indicate that trade reform in export partners, particularly OECD countries, will affect a …
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countries in the World Trade Organization (WTO) system use to restrict international trade. While such trade remedies are also …
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The author analyzes what actions could be taken in the context of the World Trade Organization's Doha negotiations to …
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The author analyzes how changes in thinking about the role trade plays in economic development have been reflected in provisions affecting developing countries in the GATT and the WTO. He focuses on the provisions calling for the special and differential treatment of developing countries. The...
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At the recent World Trade Organization (WTO) ministerial meeting in Doha, Qatar, WTO members called for the launch of …"-nondiscrimination, transparency, and provisions banning "hard core" cartels. The authors argue that an agreement along such lines will create …
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The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried trade liberalization as far as it can manage, and...
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There is a fundamental shift taking place in the world economy to which the multilateral trading system has failed to … interests largely in the rich countries, is running out of steam; (ii) the world economy is moving broadly from conditions of …
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Trade (GATT) and subsequent World Trade Organization (WTO) on choice of policy instruments, as well as how multilateral …
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Recent years have seen a surge in economic integration agreements (EIAs) and the development of non-tariff measures (NTMs). As a consequence, a growing number of EIAs include provisions on NTMs. However, little attention has been given in the literature to the effects of NTM liberalization in...
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-Saharan Africa (ECOWAS and SADC), Asia (AFTA and SAPTA) and Latin America (CACM, CAN, and MERCOSUR), estimating their impacts on … successful among them, with an estimated positive impact on its members' imports from the rest of the world (hence no trade … diversion), but its impact on their exports to the rest of the world is rather limited. During its first 10 years of existence …
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