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How Much Further Can the WTO Go? Developed Countries Issues
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityA lack of political leadership is often perceived as the main source of the repeated difficulties of the WTO. The paper argues that such a lack of...
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Assessing the EC Trade Policy in Goods
The recent shift in European trade policy to negotiate bilateral agreements with no less than 24 countries is taking Europe into dangerous waters....
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Are Developing Countries Deterred from Using the WTO Dispute Settlement System?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Roderick AbbottThe data issued by the WTO Secretariat on disputes shows that ‘developing countries’ have participated in one-third of the cases 1995-2005. The...
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Trade Policy in Asia
By: Razeen SallyTrade policy in Asia is dangerously unbalanced. It rests on a shaky leg of discriminatory bilateral and regional FTAs. Its other WTO leg has gone...
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Coping with Trade Liberalisation Adjustments
With the prospect of further trade liberalisation the question for developing and vulnerable countries of how best to manage the adjustment process...
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Intellectual Property Rights, Pharmaceuticals and Foreign Direct Investment
Tags: foreign direct investment globalisation innovation intellectual property pharmaceutical industryIn response to the challenges and opportunities of globalisation, the pharmaceutical sector has evolved to become one of the most dynamic and...
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South-South Services Trade
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis paper contributes to the debate on the development potential of South-South trade in services. It represents the first attempt to identify key...
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South South Trade in Goods
The empirical analysis presented in this paper indicates that trade between developing countries (South-South trade) offers a wide scope for...
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Non Tariff Barriers in Computable General Equilibrium Modelling
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityTags: non-tariff barriersWith diminishing tariffs, the focus of trade policy makers and analysts is logically turning towards non-tariff barriers (NTBs), but there much...
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Estimating Price Elasticities of Supply for Cotton: A Structural Time-Series Approach
Tags: agricultureThe Kalman Filter is used to estimate a structural time-series model of cotton supply for 30 countries and 16 aggregated regions. Estimated...
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The Doha Negotiations on Trade in Goods: A European Perspective
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe note reviews the basic market access issues in the Doha negotiations on trade in goods from an European perspective. First, it shows that some...