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ECIPE Working Papers
FUTURE-PROOFING WORLD TRADE IN TECHNOLOGY: Turning the WTO IT Agreement (ITA) into the International Digital Economy Agreement (IDEA)
Despite being an agreement designed for the fastest developing sectors, the signatories of the Information Technology Agreement (ITA) in the World Trade Organization (WTO) have so far failed to re-neg...
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ECIPE Occasional Papers
Indian Trade Policy After the Crisis
India, like China, had a “good” crisis; both have spearheaded exuberant post-crisis recovery in emerging markets. A combination of stable government and roaring growth gives rise to predictions th...
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ECIPE Occasional Papers
Chinese Trade Policy After (Almost) Ten Years in the WTO: A Post-Crisis Stocktake
China’s trade policy has shifted in the near-decade since it joined the WTO, argues Razeen Sally in a new study. It behaves more like a very large, complex economy and less like a small-to...
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ECIPE Occasional Papers
Securing Korea's Prosperity in the Next Century: An analysis of the Korea-EU Free Trade Agreement
Korea is a country at cross-roads. As a small but innovative economy, it has always depended on free trade for growth. But as it faces competition from South-East Asian economies, the export-lead mode...
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GEM Papers
FTA Networking in East Asia and Asia-Pacific: Where Are We Going?
This paper provides an overview on the recent development of FTA networking in extended East Asia and assesses the quality of FTAs with novel information on the utilization of FTAs, rules of origin, W...
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ECIPE Policy Briefs
Stepping into Asia's Growth Markets: Dispelling Myths about the EU-Korea Free Trade Agreement
Four years after the launch of Global Europe – the European Union’s trade strategy from 2006 – policymakers are now confronted with the first negotiated agreement with one of the rising economic...
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GEM Papers
Productivity of India’s Offshore Outsourcing Sector: Business-based Evidence
Following on an earlier paper discussing the sustainability of India’s comparative advantage in IT offshore outsourcing, the authors pursue their enquiry whether rising labour costs are being co...
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GEM Papers
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ECIPE Working Papers
Russian Commercial Policies and the European Union – Can Russia be Anchored in a Legal International Economic Order?
Can Russia be brought to abide by international commercial rules? In ECIPE’s new Working Paper, Iana Dreyer and Brian Hindley discuss the isolation of Russia from international legal norms. They ask...
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GEM Papers
Should China Revalue its Currency? Lessons from the Japanese Experience
There is a similarity of pattern between the present international pressures for RMB revaluation and pressures which were exerted on Japan in the ‘80s for Yen revaluation. The undervaluation of the ...