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The role of justice in the North–South conflict in climate change: the case of negotiations on the Adaptation Fund

Grasso, Marco - In: International Environmental Agreements: Politics, Law … 11 (2011) 4, pp. 361-377

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The WTO and the Doha Round: Walking on Two Legs

Hoekman, Bernard - In: World Bank - Economic Premise (2011) 68, pp. 1-6

The Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations has been ongoing for 10 years, and given political …

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Auctions versus Negotiations: Evidence from Public Procurement in the Italian Healthcare Sector

Vellez, Mercedes - Centro di Studi Internazionali Sull'Economia e la … - 2011

This paper contributes to the empirical literature on auctions and negotiations. Using healthcare facilities data on … procurement contracts, I find evidence that auctions do not yield lower prices than negotiations. This result is robust to …

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EXPERIENCE OF ROMANIA IN THE ELABORATION AND IMPLEMENTATION OF THE DOMESTIC POLICIES OF EUROPEAN INTEGRATION: LESSONS FOR THE REPUBLIC OF MOLDOVA

Morari, Cristina - In: CES Working Papers 3(1) (2011) March, pp. 72-80

objective, the study is focused on analyzing the evolution of Romania accession negotiations, internal and external activities …

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Children participating in family decisions (English version)

RICHTER, Rudolf; ZARTLER, Ulrike - In: Revista de cercetare si interventie sociala 32 (2011) March, pp. 7-24

Children are nowadays seen as self-reliant subjects able to articulate their wishes and to participate in family decisions. International studies have shown that children in Austria participate in family affairs only to a moderate extent. National studies just as well indicate that there is much...

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Gestion et appropriation de la nature entre le nord et le sud. Trente ans de politiques internationales relatives à la biodiversité

Boisvert, Valérie; Vivien, Franck-Dominique - In: Revue Tiers-Monde n° 202 (2010) 2, pp. 15-32

<alinea/> The emergence and spread of the notion of biodiversity since the mid 1980s attest the creation of a new field of action and knowledge at the interface between science and politics, aiming at the appropriation and management of nature. The purpose of this paper is to assess in this respect...

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Applying environmental performance indices towards an objective measure of sustainability in the Levant

Nasr, George J. - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 11 (2008) 1, pp. 61-73

An 'Environmental Diamond' for the Levant is proposed, similar to the World Bank's 'Development Diamond'. It would serve as a framework for evaluating ecosystem risk for the countries in the Jordan Basin that are currently facing a sustainability crisis. The approach followed by this paper was...

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How to reallocate water rights when environmental goals conflict with existing entitlements

Thoyer, Sophie - In: International Journal of Sustainable Development 9 (2006) 2, pp. 122-137

approaches: auctions, contracts and negotiations. …

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The Spanish Labor Market in a Cross-Country Perspective

Jaumotte, Florence - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

The Spanish labor market is not working: the unemployment rate is structurally very high; wages are not very responsive to labor market conditions, causing a high cyclicality of unemployment; and the labor market is highly dual. Compared with the EU15, Spanish labor market institutions and...

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WTO Negotiations on Trade Facilitation: Update

Misovicova, Maria - Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific … - 2006

This paper provides an update on the latest status of the WTO negotiations on trade facilitation issues. These … negotiations focus on the clarification and improvement of relevant aspects of GATT Articles V, VIII, and X which contain … technical assistance to developing countries have become a major driver of these negotiations. The principle of special and …

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