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The founding myth of international law is the sovereign equality of its member states. How, then, can and should it accommodate the rise of one potential hegemon and the decline of another? This review essay discusses an important new book by Cai Congyan, of Xiamen University, that tries to...
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As a new international economic policy, microtrade will face a whole host of issues, including potential legal cultural obstacles. Those legal cultural issues will arise as a result of the different and sometimes conflicting legal cultures of the varied participants within the different fora and...
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expanding domain of international intervention into the Third World. This thesis asks why this is so, taking seriously the idea … universal applicability which has inspired attempts by the Third World to use international law as a site of political struggle …. This project has made the idea(l) of self government in the Third World illusory and vulnerable to capture by rent …
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The WTO's Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) is an important agreement that aims to simplify and simplify trade procedures, lower trade costs and increase transparency and predictability in global trade. For Bangladesh, a highly export-dependent developing country, TFA offers significant...
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In this paper, we examine the effects of international arbitration on GDP growth in Latin American countries. After reviewing the literature on the importance of arbitration from an economic standpoint, and by using a panel regression that allows us to control for country effects, we found that...
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others have failed. This article does not presume to know or attempt to solve all the problems of the developing world. This …
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This paper documents that resource reallocation across firms is an important mechanism through which creditor rights affect real outcomes. I exploit the staggered adoption of an international convention that provides globally consistent strong creditor protection for aircraft finance. After this...
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