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Showing 1 to 16 of 16 for “"Preferential Trade Agreements"”.
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Food Security and Preferential Trade Agreements
… lenses condition the views on whether trade is generally seen as an opportunity for or threat to food security. Until now there is no consensus on the (empirical) impact in the literature. First, I analyse the impact of PTAs on food security across 93 low and middle income countries for …
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The Political Economy of Preferential Trade Agreements
… dissertation is comprised of three chapters on preferential trade agreements (PTAs). The first two chapters examine why countries sign PTAs with other countries, while the final chapter studies the effect of PTAs on imports.</p> <p>The first chapter provides direct empirical evidence that PTAs …
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The Political Economy Of Preferential Trade Agreements
… dissertation is comprised of three chapters on preferential trade agreements (PTAs). The first two chapters examine why countries sign PTAs with other countries, while the final chapter studies the effect of PTAs on imports.</p><p>The first chapter provides direct empirical evidence that PTAs …
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Preferential Trade Agreements, taxation, and industry location
Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) affect both the pattern of trade and the location choices of Foreign Direct Investment (FDI). Thus, the formation of a PTA may have adverse effects on the excluded countries and result in inter-regional tax competition. Nonetheless, this connection has not so …
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An argument for more plurilateral agreements and their value for developing countries: stemming the tide of preferential trade agreements, post-Doha
The latest round of multilateral trade negotiations at the WTO, the Doha Round, is deadlocked, and it is unlikely that any further significant rule-making progress will be made there. The system's faltering has resulted in an unprecedented move towards preferential trade agreements between WTO …
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The SADC protocol on trade in services : a review of the protocol in light of the GATS and other SADC protocols and what it means for trade in services in the region
In 1995 the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) came into force. This is the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) legal instrument aimed at regulating multilateral trade in services (TiS). GATS was negotiated in light of the increase in TiS in the world and the need to regulate this area of …
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Would Harmonizing Preferential Rules of Origin Aid Trade Liberalization?
… the product. Such origin rules are known as “non-preferential rules of origin”. However, there is another type of rules of origin called “preferential rules of origin”. They are used to stipulate whether a good is deemed to originate in a preferential trade agreement partner country and …
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Issues affecting utilization of the European Union’s Generalised System of Preference (GSP)
… thus enabling their economies to grow through trade. Krugman (1987). This thesis considers historical data to establish the main issues that influence the utilization of GSP; including application of GSP, academic theory in relation to the use of GSP and other preferential trade agreements such …
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Evaluating the impact of preferential markets on Eswatini SME economy
… was motivated by the fact that the impact of preferential trade agreements (PTA) on Eswatini SME economies (measured through labour productivity (LP), as well as the perception from SMEs on these markets) remain unknown. Studies conducted in various continents give conflicting findings on the …
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THE NEW POLITICS OF INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN THE EUROPEAN UNION
In the past years, trade politics within the European Union have seen a number of structural changes both in content and process. They range from the institutional evolution of EU’s policy-making to the expansion of its trade agenda to new issues, through the engagement of non-traditional social …
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Essays on Agricultural Greenhouse Gas Emission Footprints: Accounting, Bias, and Trade Policy
… and the carbon footprint of international trade at the commodity-country level. These uncertainties arise from fragmented emissions accounting frameworks. At the same time, a significant portion of agricultural GHG emissions arises from production within a country to meet external demand, …
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Procedural environmental rights in regional trade agreements: trends, policy drivers and the case for multilateralisation within the World Trade Organization
The World Trade Organization (WTO) is at the nexus between trade and the environment. The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT), as amended in 1994 during the Uruguay Round, in effect established a new treaty structure to govern international trade and commerce. The underlying philosophy …
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Three Essays on the Generalized System of (Trade) Preferences
… System of Preferences (GSP) is a unilateral trade liberalization program in which developed countries offer non-reciprocal tariff reductions (tariff preferences) on certain products imported from designated developing and least developed countries. GSP is considered an important tool in the …
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An investigation of the effect of labour law concessions on stakeholders in Kenyan Garment export processing Zones
… unions and institutions of higher learning), trade instruments (preferential trade agreements and codes of conduct) and other instruments (existing laws, arbitration and unions) could ensure that EPZ working conditions improved. The majority of workers indicated that their employer-employee …