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Sustainability impact assessments of free trade agreements : A critical review

Moïsé, Evdokia - 2021

Trade negotiations are frequently accompanied by sustainability impact assessment (SIA) to evaluate the potential economic, environmental, social and human rights effects of a possible agreement. SIAs can help promote environmental protection, and support the better integration of women,...

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Directions for Inclusive and Sustainable Industrial Development in Zimbabwe and the Republic of Korea

Lim, Soyoung; Lee, Keun; Ndlela, Daniel; Kim, Kye Hwan; … - 2023

This report is the result of a joint study by the Korea Institute of Industrial Economics and Trade (KIET) and the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), based on the experience of economic development in Korea and Zimbabwe. This collaboration originated from an existing...

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Restrictiveness of services trade policy and the sustainable development goals

Fiorini, Matteo; Hoekman, Bernard M. - 2018

The realization of many of the United Nations (UN) sustainable development goals (SDGs) depends on bolstering the performance of service sectors and improving access to specific services in developing countries. We show that prevailing services, trade, and investment policies affect access to...

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Services Trade Policy and Sustainable Development

Fiorini, Matteo - 2017

The realization of many of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) depends on bolstering the performance of services sectors and improving access to specific services in developing countries. We show that prevailing services trade and investment policies impact on access to services that matter...

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Balancing Investor Protection and Sustainable Development in Investment Arbitration – Trying to Square the Circle?

Emmert, Frank - 2018

companies. This is causing "regulatory chill" in many parts of the world, where governments, in particular in less developed or …

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Climate Change, Food Security, and Agrobiodiversity : Toward a Just, Resilient, and Sustainable Food System

Gonzalez, Carmen G. - 2014

resulted in an unprecedented erosion of agrobiodiversity that renders the world's food supply vulnerable to catastrophic crop …, reducing the productivity of the world's fisheries, and placing pressure on scarce water resources. Furthermore, the climate … Agriculture Organization reports that the number of chronically undernourished people in the world reached a peak of 1.02 billion …

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Trade and Sustainable Development : Non-Economic Objectives in the Theory of Economic Policy

Hoekman, Bernard M.; Nelson, Douglas R.; Francois, Joseph F. - 2022

While the theory of economic policy offers a potential framework for thinking about the joint pursuit of economic objectives (EOs) and non-economic objectives (NEOs), over time the theory of economic policy was formalized in a way that considers NEOs as constraints that are given, rather than as...

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Achieving Bangladesh's Tourism Potential : Linkages to Export Diversification, Employment Generation and the 'Green Economy'

Honeck, Dale - 2014

it has three World Heritage sites, including the Sundarbans tiger reserves. Moreover, it is part of important travel …

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Achieving Bangladesh's tourism potential : linkages to export diversification, employment generation and the "green economy"

Honeck, Dale; Akhtar, Md. Shoaib - 2014 - Manuscript date: 26 August, 2014

it has three World Heritage sites, including the Sundarbans tiger reserves. Moreover, it is part of important travel …

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Trade, poverty eradication, and the sustainable development goals

Brambilla, Irene; Porto, Guido G. - 2016

This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty eradication using microeconomic and macroeconomic mechanisms and the effects of trade and trade policy on consumer prices, producer prices, and wages. As these mechanisms affect the real...

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