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Non-tariff measures and standards in trade and global value chains
Beghin, John C.; Maertens, Miet; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2015 - This version: February 24, 2015
We assess the literature on public and private quality standards and their impact in food markets, international trade … protectionism, a complicate task. We look at studies investigating public and private standards and across various quantitative … approaches and countries. These standards have complex effects. The evidence is mixed regarding standards as catalyst for or …
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The Politics of Meta-Governance in Transnational Private Sustainability Governance
Fransen, Luc - 2015
meta-governance in the governance of sustainability standards in agriculture. It shows how meta-governance efforts are … sustainable. It therefore reveals the mechanism through which meta-governance of coordination problems among cross-border self …-organizing governance arrangements may end up reproducing these coordination problems, rather than addressing them …
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Portugal's wine globalization waves, 1750-2015
Lains, Pedro - 2017
From 1750 to 2015 we may detect three waves of globalization of wines produced in Portugal, namely, port wine exports for the British market in the 18th century, common wines exports to France in the second half of the 19th century, and finally the growth of exports to European markets from the...
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The globalisation of the wine industry: new world, old world and China
Thorpe, Michael - In: China Agricultural Economic Review 1 (2009) 3, pp. 301-313
Purpose – As the Chinese economy continues to develop, rising incomes for many people has meant significant shifts in consumption patterns. Over the past several years, per capita wine consumption in China has doubled. Although off a relatively low base, this still represents a significant...
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Income distribution in the Latin American Southern Cone during the first globalization boom, ca: 1870-1920
Bertola, Luis; Castelnovo, Cecilia; Rodriguez, Javier; … - Instituto Figuerola de Historia y Ciencias Sociales, … - 2008
Latin America is the most unequal region in the world and there is a lively debate concerning the explanations and timing of such high levels of income inequality. Latin America was also the region, not including European Offshoots, which experienced the most rapid growth during the first...
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The Multilateral Trade Regime Seen Through a Global Public Good Lens : New Insights on Old Problems
Sapovadia, Vrajlal K. - 2007
The Research Paper "The Multilateral Trade Regime seen through a Global Public Goods Lens: New Insights on Old Problems" is prepared on reflections generated while a debate was held by gpgNet during July 2003. The conference was sponsored by UNDP, and global participants has given their wide...
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On the Moral Equivalence of Foods : Organic and 'Conventional' Bananas in Global Production Networks
Murphy, Andrew J.; Trauger, Amy - 2008
Organic foods have received much recent attention, from consumers and retailers as well as academics. Rapid change and growth in the organic sector has brought about new challenges and opportunities for the organic foods social movement and markets, and one such recent development has been the...
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Integrative Governance : Generating Sustainable Responses to Global Crises (Foreword)
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2018
intelligence, might shake up the lives of individuals as well as governance frameworks at global and national levels. The rules of … that China had been gradually expanding its own systems of public participation and local governance with Chinese cultural …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014112915
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The Development of Global Justice and Sustainable Development Principles in the WTO Multilateral Trading System Through the Lens of Non-Trade Concerns : An Appraisal on China's Progress
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2016
. Specifically, global governance and law with borderless globalization are to blame for the inability to find appropriate solutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123758
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The Development of Global Justice and Sustainable Development Principles in the WTO Multilateral Trading System Through the Lens of Non-Trade Concerns : An Appraisal on China's Progress
Farah, Paolo Davide - 2016
. Specifically, global governance and law with borderless globalization are to blame for the inability to find appropriate solutions …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014123865