This paper examines trade policies in Peru and Argentina since the reforms of the 1990s. Peru provides a valuable example of sustaining reform. Leaders have used negotiations and other international instruments...
Trade reform in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s was in significant part a reform of policy-making institutions. The institutions that existed when the reforms began had been created in response to...
The record of traditional safeguard provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization provides useful information about how a special agricultural safeguard might...
The binding of tariff rates and adoption of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization-sanctioned safeguards and antidumping mechanisms provided the basis to remove a multitude...
Contrary to the prevailing view that the Doha negotiations have achieved little, the authors find that on trade facilitation much progress has been made. This is particularly true in regard to action by...
我们怎样帮助贫困人口从他们的知识中而不是汗水和体力中获得更多的收入?本文总结了某些项目的经验,即旨在促进和保护贫困国家贫困人口的创新、知识和创造性技能的项目,特别是提高贫困人口从知识和技能中获得收入的项目。 国际社会相当关注与贫困国家购买的知识产权有关的问题,如WTO《与贸易有关的知识产权协定》(TRIPS)中提出的不断增长的药品费用问题。本文的主题与这方面进展的另一部分问题有关,即知识产权的连接。它所讨论的是贫困人口拥有、创造和出售的知识,而不是他们所购买的知识。...
This book aims to expand the international discourse by: Calling attention to a broader range of knowledge that has commercial potential in developing countries. Bringing an economic dimension into the...
在重商主义经济里,在乌拉圭回合中,相对于南方发展中国家而言,北方发达国家是一个大赢家,在实际经济中,北方发达国家是一个更大的赢家。 乌拉圭回合涉及南-北方发达和不发达国家和地区之间的大量讨价还价: 北方发达国家减少了进口壁垒, 特别是有关纺织品和农业的进口壁垒。南方发展中国家在这些领域,如服务和知识产权采用了新的国内监管,这一变化将使从北方发达国家购买的商品增加。在重商主义经济学中, 苹果换苹果,进口对进口。...
This report is an attempt to provide an overview of South Africa's trade regime to assess whether it is conducive to sustaining a prolonged export drive. Stagnation of output and rising unemployment have...
Dumping and antidumping: the rhetoric and the reality of protection in industrial countries. Policy instruments for pollution control in developing countries. A survey of the costs of world sugar policies...
Antidumping has about it the aura of a special measure to undo a special problem. Within this view, the explosion of antidumping actions in the 1980s was simply a good thing carried too far: the appropriate...
This paper concludes that transparency, openness, and objectivity, are important parts of the American ideal of rule of law. Yet these procedural refinements seem to contribute more to the problem than...
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was built on a mercantilist sense of economic welfare and a mercantilist sense that domestic producers had a higher claim than foreign producers to the...
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) system is three things: The belief that an open international trading system conveys political and economic advantages to each nation; The international...
A review article on the work of "practitioners of contemporary economic analysis of trade restrictions", this report focuses on three questions : a) are there holes in the case of free trade? B) Why are...
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) system is three things: The belief that an open international trading system conveys political and economic advantages to each nation; The international...
Introduction. Trade in services and the multilateral trade negotiations. Agriculture in the Uruguay Round: interests of developing countries. GATT law, agricultural trade, and developing countries: lessons...
This essay reviews and interprets recent analyses of the policy of industrial countries in response to increasing imports from developing countries. Industrial country policy has been caught between the...