Showing 1 - 10 of 33
globalisation (involving of liberalisation of international trade and investment) on the state of the environment and sustainable … ignored. New efforts are needed to ensure that WTO plays a more constructive role in the future in coordinating trade … development. While the WTO and Bretton Woods institutions believe that this impact can be expected to be favourable, divergent …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038682
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008465443
The WTO and other Bretton Woods institutions are widely seen as facilitators of the process of economic globalisation … views of pressure groups from more developed countries about the role of the WTO in economic globalisation paying particular …, a process which has been underway for many centuries but which has accelerated since World War II. The role of the WTO …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038671
has joined the WTO. There is concern about the possible impact of China’s WTO entry on its rural poverty and its ability … adjustment support and migration from rural areas in the future. The WTO does not count such measures as a form of economic … WTO exempt. As discussed these include ‘green box’ measure, certain development measures in developing countries, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009145047
arising from free trade and the process of globalisation. There are concerns that these processes may undermine prospects for … work program of the Environment and Trade Committee of WTO, it seems to have little effect. Probably if these principles …There is a widespread belief that the WTO has made virtually no concessions to environmentalists about their concerns …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005469071
This paper estimates the immediate impact of China's accession to WTO on water, air and soil pollution in the Chinese … manufacturing sector. The pollution effects of WTO accession are decomposed into three categories: composition, technical and scale … effects. The results suggest that the immediate environmental impact of China's WTO accession will be largely positive. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005469076
-26 May, 2000 will exert a profound effect on international trade in genetically modified organisms (GMOs) and their products … various articles of the Protocol on international trade in GMOs are analyzed. Based on the present status of imports of GMOs … products after China accedes to WTO is explored. Also, China’s strategies and countermeasures to control and regulate imports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005038685
Recent developments in the global system of cities present a curious paradox. With the cost of communications declining almost to zero and substantial, though less dramatic reductions in transport costs, there is now little technical requirement for most kinds of production to be undertaken in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010911003
adjustment policies (involving the extension of markets and economic globalisation) to take account of coevolutionary principles …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005801838
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008506853