This article identifies a number of examples of apparent lack of coherence in United States and European Union trade policies. They include the effect of preferential policies that lock in trade shares and inhibit growth promoting structural adjustment, biases in tariff structures, policies that...

This article identifies a number of examples of apparent lack of coherence in United States and European Union trade policies. They include the effect of preferential policies that lock in trade shares and inhibit growth promoting structural adjustment, biases in tariff structures, policies that...

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The concept of a "digital divide" - inequality in access to modern information and communication technologies (ICTs) between industrialised and developing countries, and between urban and rural populations - has attracted much attention from policymakers, aid organisations, media and the general...