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Developing Countries and Enforcement of Trade Agreements : Why Dispute Settlement is Not Enough

Bown, Chad P.; Bernard M., Hoekman - 2012

Poor countries are rarely challenged in formal World Trade Organization trade disputes for failing to live up to … this failure. Given the weak incentives to enforce World Trade Organization rules and disciplines against small and poor … members, bolstering the transparency function of the World Trade Organization is important for making trade agreements more …

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Regional, Multilateral, and Unilateral Trade Policies on MERCOSUR for Growth and Poverty Reduction in Brazil

Gurgel, Angelo; Harrison, Glenn W.; Rutherford, Thomas F.; … - 2003

and export subsidies results in gains to the world more than four times greater than either the FTAA or the EU …-MERCOSUR agreement. This shows the continued importance to the world trading community of the multilateral negotiations …

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The Cotonou Agreement and its Implications for the Regional Trade Agenda in Eastern and Southern Africa

de la Rocha, Manuel - 2003

Subregional trade arrangements (RTAs) in Eastern and Southern Africa have proliferated in the past 10 to 15 years. The small size of most of the countries in the region, some of which are landlocked, and the security needs in the post independence period largely explain the rapid expansion....

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Rules of Origin and the Web of East Asian Free Trade Agreements

Manchin, Miriam; Pelkmans-Balaoing, Edylinda Annette Oreta - 2012

The authors provide an overview of the preferential rules of origin in East Asia, highlighting the aspects that might …

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Institutional Arrangements for the Promotion of Regional Integration of Electricity Markets : International Experience

Oseni, Musiliu O.; Pollitt, Michael G. - 2014

This paper focuses on the institutional arrangements needed for facilitating regional electricity cooperation. The paper begins by discussing the theory of international trade cooperation in electricity, with a view to discussing what preconditions might be important in facilitating wide area...

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Reciprocity in Free Trade Agreements

Freund, Caroline L. - 2003

The author uses detailed trade, tariff, and income data for countries involved in 91 trade agreements negotiated since 1980 to test for reciprocity in free trade agreements. The results offer strong evidence of reciprocity in North-North and South-South free trade agreements, but there is little...

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Trade Remedies and World Trade Organization Dispute Settlement : Why Are So Few Challenged?

Bown, Chad P. - 2012

countries in the World Trade Organization (WTO) system use to restrict international trade. While such trade remedies are also …

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Emerging Trends in WTO Dispute Settlement : Back to the GATT?

Holmes, Peter; Rollo, Jim; Young, Alasdair R. - 2003

As the number of cases in the World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement system has increased, there has been a …

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Is the WTO Passe?

Bagwell, Kyle; Bown, Chad P.; Staiger, Robert W. - 2015

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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Multilateralism beyond Doha

Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - 2012

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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