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Showing 1 to 20 of 28 for “"Regional Trade Agreements"”.
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The Depth of Cooperation and Institutional Strength: Assessing the Design of Regional Trade Agreements
… questions, this project addresses 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 …
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Figments of Fragmentation in International Trade Law: Examining the Systemic Interaction between WTO Law and Regional Trade Agreements
The growing network of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) concluded between States has often been seen as a threat or policy alternative to the multilateral World Trade Organization (WTO) system. This dissertation re-evaluates this assumption by examining the interaction between WTO law and the RTA …
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Services provisions in regional trade agreements : does the East African community stand to gain more from an integrated market?
… With the advent and development of technology, trade in services has grown more rapidly than trade in goods in world production. This has also resulted from ongoing economic reforms and the development of more liberal policies. Prior to the Uruguay Round of negotiations, international trade was …
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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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Whether the African Continental Free Trade Area (AFCFTA) agreement satisfies the requirements for ‘legality' under the applicable WTO law governing regional trade agreements (RTAS)
The African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) Agreement is a potentially transformative regional trade agreement (RTA) which aims to stimulate intra-African trade. It exists alongside other RTAs, and alongside the World Trade Organisation (the WTO), which is the umbrella body for international …
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Financial Openness and Trade Volatility in Argentina
… the relationship between financial openness and trade volatility in Argentina. Data spanning 1970-2011 provided by the IMF, WTO, and INDEC will be used to construct a panel dataset for both a global analysis and a sectoral analysis for the Argentine economy. The application of established and …
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INTERNATIONAL LAWMAKING: EXPORT RESTRICTIONS ON MINERAL RAW MATERIALS
… critiquing the effectiveness of international trade law regulating export restrictions, with an emphasis on trade in mineral raw materials. First, it offers a historical and empirical analysis of export restrictions on raw materials. Second, it is based on a legal analysis of the texts, …
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Effective cartel enforcement: getting Malaysia ready for what lies ahead
… – international cartel enforcement via regional trade agreements between developed and developing countries. This work argues that in order to encourage the utilisation of competition related provisions in regional TAs there are prerequisites to be satisfied. One of the prerequisites is …
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Trade Facilitation and Export diversification in South Africa
… a gravity model to investigate the impact of trade facilitation on export diversification in South Africa. This paper uses panel data of 124 countries ranging over the period 2012 – 2016. In this paper, a statistical approach called factor analysis was used to construct four new aggregate …
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The impact of SADC regionalisation on intra-SADC trade
The subject of international trade is as old as the human race. Countries have always needed goods they were unable to produce either because of lack of resources, lack of skills or just cost related constraints. On the other hand, countries have at one time or the other been able to produce more …
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Tides of Cooperation: The Ebb and Flow of Regional Cooperation in Latin America
<p>Regional organizations have developed into important global actors as they negotiate inter-regional trade agreements, regulate economic policies, and develop international security communities. States have much to gain from such regional cooperation efforts particularly in emerging regions such …
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Legal analysis on the relationship between the AU/AEC and RECs : Africa lost in a "spaghetti bowl" of legal relations?
In Africa, the regional trade agreements (RTAs) are commonly known as regional economic communities (RECs). Currently, fourteen regional economic communities operate on the African continent. However, in the quest for a more systematic approach to promoting "a strong and united Africa", only eight …
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The regulation on trade barriers under SADC and EAC: assessing the effectiveness of their legal framework
There are more regional integration initiatives in Eastern and Southern Africa than anywhere else in Sub-Sahara Africa. These include Common Market of Eastern and Southern Africa (COMESA), East Africa Community (EAC), Southern African Development Community (SADC), Southern Africa Customs Union …
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Movement of heterogeneous goods and people.
Applied General Equilibrium models of trade failed to predict the sectoral changes in trade volumes following the Canada-US Free Trade Agreement. These models utilized a representative firm framework and used econometric estimates for the elasticities of substitution between home and foreign goods. …
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Economic reforms and product market integration in developing countries : an empirical investigation using retail prices in Zambia
In spite of extensive trade reforms, markets for goods and services are not fully integrated across countries. Less appreciated also is that product markets within countries are frequently not integrated. Barriers to trade within countries are shown to be as important in preventing product market …
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Building or stumbling, blocks anyhow: a comparative approach of regional labour mobility frameworks towards global solutions
… level seem off the agenda, with the General Agreements on Trades in Services essentially tabled, the past decades have produced a proliferation of regional trade agreements (RTAs), some of which are facilitating labour mobility specifically. In this paper, the author first conducts a …
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Three Essays in Empirical Economics
… gas demand by 5.59%. The second 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 …
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Economic Adjustment in Small Open Economies to External Shocks Arising from the Carry Trade, Trade Liberalisation and Remittance Flows
… financial flows such as workers' remittances and trade liberalisation are identified to be of particular importance. This thesis is composed of three independent essays that investigate the macroeconomic impacts on small open economies from these three shocks spanning two geographic locations. …
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