The current study attempts to understand the relationships among Environmental Quality (EQ), Human Development (HD) and political and governance regime in a cross-country framework. The underlying hypothesis is that in addition to income, as reflected from the literature on Environmental Kuznets...

The inter-linkage between economic openness and environmental repercussions is a widely researched area. The current study contributes in the existing pool of research by conducting a cross-country empirical analysis for the year 2008 by exploring the interrelationship between openness...

The IBSA (India, Brazil and South Africa) came into being in middle of 2003 with the meeting of the heads of Governments of the three countries on the sidelines of the Evian Summit. Since then the three countries have collaborated at times in the WTO multilateral negotiation forums. Another...

1. Introduction: World Trade Organization, Trade and Opportunities -- 2. Trade Policy and Price-based Barriers -- 3. Non-Tariff Barriers and Trade Flows -- 4. Trade, Environment and Climate Change -- 5. RTAs and Trade Integration -- 6. Emerging Issues under WTO -- 7. Conclusion.