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Showing 1 to 20 of 30 for “"RTAs"”.
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Food Security and Preferential Trade Agreements
… between Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreements (RTAs and BTAs, respectively) as these are designed differently in the light of food policy. Findings indicate that having a PTA in force, in contrast to having none, is associated with better food security outcomes. However, an increase in the …
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Cape Town road traffic accident analysis: Utilising supervised learning techniques and discussing their effectiveness
… and reduce the frequency and injury severity of RTAs are of utmost importance. There is limited South African literature on modelling RTA injury-severity using supervised learning (SL) methods that fit a model that relates a target variable to a set of predictor variables. In this thesis, …
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Whether the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA) agreement satisfies the requirements for ‘legality' under the applicable WTO law governing regional trade agreements (RTAS)
… intra-African trade. It exists alongside other RTAs, and alongside the World Trade Organisation (the WTO), which is the umbrella body for international trade. The WTO allows for the creation of RTAs; however, this is subject to certain conditions which are enshrined in the WTO legal framework. …
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Identifying risk factors for traumatic injury (TBI) due to road traffic accidents (RTA) and strategies to reduce the burden of secondary brain injury
… detailed risk factors contributing to TBI due to RTAs in children. The objectives of this study were to map the burden of disease and examine circumstantial and clinical information to inform potential intervention strategies. Methods: This was a descriptive study of patients with TBI admitted to …
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Three Essays in Empirical Economics
… essay focuses on regional trade agreements (RTAs). A number of studies have found that RTAs significantly increase members' trade flows. While recent studies have begun to explore the reasons for this, none have examined whether the RTA trade effect varies systematically with the number and …
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Building or stumbling, blocks anyhow: a comparative approach of regional labour mobility frameworks towards global solutions
… a proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs), some of which are facilitating labour mobility specifically. In this paper, the author first conducts a comparative overview of RTAs that have a form of labour mobility programmes: namely, ECOWAS, ASEAN, the European Union, NAFTA, CARICOM and …
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Epidemiology and economic impact of road traffic accidents in the United Arab Emirates
High rates of serious road traffic accidents (RTAs) have been reported for the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in recent years. This research aims to describe the problem in the UAE and to quantify its economic burden on the country’s resources.<br/><br/>The approach chosen is quantitative, based on …
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Services provisions in regional trade agreements : does the East African community stand to gain more from an integrated market?
… provisions under regional trade agreements (RTAs) follow the same trend as those RTAs that provide for goods. They are largely premised on the elimination of explicit barriers to the entry of foreign service providers in the region. Notably, for services trade under RTAs, two models of …
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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 conclusion of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs), which constitute an exemption from the Most Favoured Nation (MFN) principle of non-discrimination. Multilateral negotiations within the WTO system have, therefore, been complemented by regionalism. Both trends have come to apparently coexist …
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Minority carrier lifetimes in germanium on silicon heterostructures
… epi-Ge. TEM showed that recrystallization using RTAs below the Ge melting point and liquid phase epitaxy using RTAs above the Ge melting point resulted in recrystallized poly-Ge with varying degrees of defects. Epi-Ge resulted in the highest level of coherent crystallinity. Inductively-coupled …
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Trajectory Specification to Support High-Throughput Continuous Descent Approaches
… that by specifying intermediate waypoints with RTAs, it is possible to use intermediate waypoints with RTAs to increase the throughput by as much as 70%, while incurring an additional fuel burn penalty of 2% per flight.
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Intrusive thoughts, crisis support and symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorders in adolescents involved in road traffic accidents
… levels of PTSD seen in adolescents involved in RTAs. In addition, other variables were assessed which were suggested by Rachman to be indicative of successful emotional processing (e.g. social support). 34 adolescents between the age of 10 and 16, who had been involves in RTAs were asked to …
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Trade and investment effects of free trade agreements: The case of Vietnam
Regional trade agreements (RTAs) are reciprocal trade agreements between two or more partners. The relatively recent emergence of deep and comprehensive RTAs is expected to have substantial impacts on members, especially developing countries. For a particular country, the impacts of RTAs on trade …
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Elucidation of the Various Mechanisms of Antioxidant Activity of Organosulfur Compounds
… are potent radical-trapping antioxidants (RTAs) through the intermediacy of sulfenic acids (RSOH). In an effort to shed light on the antioxidant mechanisms of other organosulfur constituents of garlic and sulfurized olefins, in Chapter 2, we reported on the antioxidant activity of …
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The Depth of Cooperation and Institutional Strength: Assessing the Design of Regional Trade Agreements
… two aspects of regional trade agreements (RTAs): the depth of cooperation and the strength of treaty institutions. The explanation of the depth focuses on the negotiations that produce regional trade agreements. The distribution of preferences among the negotiating states conditions the …
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Economic Adjustment in Small Open Economies to External Shocks Arising from the Carry Trade, Trade Liberalisation and Remittance Flows
… on whether two regional trade agreements (RTAs) in South Asia, the South Asian Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA) and the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) have bolstered intra-regional exports. The results suggest that the two RTAs have not had a significant impact on the region as …
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Economic Adjustment in Small Open Economies to External Shocks Arising from the Carry Trade, Trade Liberalisation and Remittance Flows
… on whether two regional trade agreements (RTAs) in South Asia, the South Asian Preferential Trading Arrangement (SAPTA) and the South Asian Free Trade Area (SAFTA) have bolstered intra-regional exports. The results suggest that the two RTAs have not had a significant impact on the region as …
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Essays on Regional Economic Integration in East Asia
… not the aggregate, so as to assess the impact of RTAs across product types as well as the nature of the home market effect and the role of similarity of demand structures. On the financial side, the dissertation synthesizes analyses of the composition of cross-border portfolio holdings in East …
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Economic Integration in ASEAN Region, and International Trade linkages with FDI, Tourism and Environment - Analysis and Evaluation of trade determinants at SITC I Industry Sector Level Using Four Gravity Models
… It estimated the impact of the aforementioned RTAs including AEC formation, particularly regarding, (i) traditional trade determinants, 'behind the border' 'beyond the border' constraints, 'home bias' and 'globalization puzzles' (ii) trade creation and trade diversion effects of RTAs, (iii) …
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