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Showing 1 to 20 of 124 for “"Trade agreements"”.
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International trade agreements.
In recent years, the use of the mode of regional trade liberalisation has proliferated, while the multilateral talks through the WTO have proceeded slowly, resulting in a debate on the role of bilateral and multilateral trade liberalisation. This thesis aims to provide new insights to this debate …
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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
… 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 are consistent …
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The Political Economy Of Preferential Trade Agreements
… 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 are consistent …
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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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Essays on International Trade Agreements Under Monopolistic Competition
… consists of three essays exploring how trade models with monopolistic competition can help us understand and evaluate the history of domestic policy coordination in the multilateral trading system. Relative to perfect competition, imperfect competition gives rise to new cross-border …
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Essays on the Impact of Renegotiating Trade Agreements
… explores the impact of the renegotiation of trade agreements when there is a threat that trade barriers could increase. The thesis addresses the following questions: 1. What is the impact on firm exporting decisions of the trade policy uncertainty generated by the renegotiation of trade …
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Restraints of trade agreements revisted: the law and recent developments
… traditional approach which deems restraint of trade agreements to be prima facie unenforceable was rejected under the South African legal system, as it was not consistent with the leading contractual law principles, from this the principle that restraint agreements are prima facie enforceable …
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Understanding developing countries' capacities to negotiate effective trade agreements : Colombia
… countries in negotiating international trade agreements with the US. By articulating key components of the negotiation theory with personal experience of economic diplomacy and illustrating them through the process of the World Trade Organization agreement in Colombia during 1994, this …
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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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Restructuring of the Mauritian clothing industry in the light of new trade agreements
… clothing industry, given the shift in the global trade regime. Up till now, two important trade agreements have benefited Mauritius tremendously. Being a member of African Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) group of countries, Mauritius has had the privilege of exporting to European countries under the …
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The Depth of Cooperation and Institutional Strength: Assessing the Design of Regional Trade Agreements
… 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 negotiating states …
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Invocation of international trade agreements by private parties before domestic courts : a Namibian perspective
… have locus standi to invoke international trade agreements through Namibian courts. The study investigates how effective domestic courts are in adjudicating on matters pertaining to international trade law in Namibia and within other jurisdictions such as regional economic communities. …
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Industrialization under the WTO : the impact of asymmetric free trade agreements on middle-technology developing countries
… regime, focusing on the role of asymmetric free trade agreements. It proposes a framework where free trade agreements offer payoffs that countries have not been able to achieve through their WTO commitments. To evaluate these payoffs, I explore the mechanisms through which selected features of …
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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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