- Trade Policy Options for Chile: A Quantitative Evaluation
- G.W. Harrison; T.F. Rutherford; D.G. Tarr / Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999
- Welfare in Chile would be improved by moving toward uniformity in the value-added tax and lowering the Chilean tariff to between 6 and 8 percent. Chile is currently evaluating a wide range of possible trade policies. Using a gl...
- The GATS Agreement on Financial Services - A Modest Start to Multilateral Liberalization
- Piritta Sorsa / International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997
- This paper analyzes the links between multilateral and unilateral financial sector liberalization. The rules in the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) and related negotiations in financial services in 1995 were a first atte...
- Trade and Investment Interface
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
- This note was prepared in response to the request by the Working Party of the Trade Committee for follow - up to key questions arising from an earlier Secretariat note on the treatment of investment in the Uruguay Round. It attempts t...
- Investment and the Final Act of the Uruguay Round: A Preliminary Stocktaking
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
- This paper aims to provide a preliminary stocktaking of the outcome of the Uruguay Round with regard to the treatment of investment. Doing so is difficult for a number of reasons, not least of which is the fact that investment per se ...
- The International Contestability of Markets -- Economic perspectives: Issues Paper
- Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999
- For a number of years analytical work and discussions have taken place in the Trade Committee and in various other fora on the “new” dimensions of market access arising in world of deepening economic integration. This work h...
- Agriculture and the policy environment: Zambia and Zimbabwe: political dreams and policy nightmares
- Doris J. Jansen; Andrew Rukovo / OECD Development Centre, 1992
- The paper examines the effect of differing policies in the post-independence period on the agricultural and overall economic performance of Zambia and Zimbabwe. It focuses on the interaction between macroeconomic and agricultural poli...
- Building China's Information Technology Industry: Tariff Policy and China's Accession to the WTO
- M. Borrus; S.S. Cohen / Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, 1997
- A major issue that remains open both with respect to China's participation in the ITA and its accession to the WTO is the speed of tariff liberalization that China will commit to in these negotiations. We argue in this paper that, at ...
- A Dynamic Simulation Model of Tourism and Environment in the Yucatan Peninsula [Mexico]
- P. Kandelaars / International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1997
- Tourism in the Yucatan peninsula has been and is still growing, which may lead to conflicts between tourism and the environment, population and other economic sectors. A dynamic simulation model ahs been developed to understand the dy...
- The TRIPs Agreement: A Guide for the South: The Uruguay Round Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights
- South Centre, 1997
- This document aims to contribute to an understanding of the factors that prompted the proposals for the TRIPs Agreement, to outline certain aspects of the Agreement thought to be particularly important for developing countries, and to...
- General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS)
- World Trade Organization, 1999
- Nigerian Perspectives on the Future Bilateral Free Trade Agreement between Norway and Nigeria
- C. Bu / Norwegian Council for Africa, 2012
- As the multilateral negotiations at the World Trade Organisation (WTO) are at a standstill, an increasing number of bilateral trade agreements are being negotiated. In Norway the multilateral negotiations are the responsibility of the...
- Small-scale and informal mining: a big problem for Latin American states
- J. Kuramoto / Evidence and Lessons from Latin America, 2012
- Latin America has experienced substantial growth and transformation in small-scale mining, meaning it is often no longer small or artisanal, instead it is characterised by high informality and an increasing potential to generate confl...
- Brazil’s generous diplomacy: friendly dragon or paper tiger?
- R. Muggah; E. Passarelli Hamann / Graduate Institute of International Studies, Geneva, 2012
- Featuring a stable democracy and dizzying economic growth, Brazil is fast on the way to acquiring global power status. The country is investing in enhanced multilateral and bilateral relationships as a means of leveraging trade and re...
- Comprehensive report detailing multi-sector trade opportunities and enabling conditions in the transition to a green economy
- United Nations [UN] Environment Programme, 2013
- Prepared by the Trade, Policy and Planning Unit of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), this report is a key component of the Green Economy and Trade Opportunities Project (GE-TOP). The aim of GE-TOP is to identify opportu...
- Understanding Wage Issues in the Tea Industry
- Oxfam, 2013
- Wage levels are an issue of concern across the globe as individuals, companies and governments wrestle with how wages paid to workers relate to costs of living, corporate and national competitiveness, profitability and broader macroec...
- What next for the BRICS Bank?
- N. Watson; M. Younis; S. Spratt / Institute of Development Studies UK, 2013
- A new development bank to be created by the ‘Rising Powers’ of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) is intended to promote greater cooperation between developing countries, and address what is seen by many...
- The Global Information Technology Report 2013: Growth and Jobs in a Hyperconnected World
- B. Bilbao-Osorio (ed); S. Dutta (ed); B. Lanvin (ed) / World Economic Forum, 2013
- The Networked Readiness Index presented in this report ranks 144 economies based on their capacity to exploit the opportunities offered by the digital age. This capacity is determined by the quality of the regulatory, business and inn...
- Fatal fashion: Analysis of recent factory fires in Pakistan and Bangladesh: a call to protect and respect garment workers’ lives
- Centre for Research on Multinational Corporations, 2013
- The garment industry in both Bangladesh and Pakistan is recognised for paying low wages, demanding and unsafe working conditions, and the repression of unions. Workers are not organised and therefore not in the position to monitor or ...
- When does Aid for Trade work best?
- Y. Basnett; J. Engel; J. Kennan; C. Kingombe; I. Massa; D.W. te Velde / Overseas Development Institute, 2012
- Aid for Trade has emerged as an important vehicle for assisting developing countries to improve their trade capacity and to benefit from the expansion of global markets. But any optimism on the volume of Aid for Trade flows is punctua...
- How to make Trade for Aid successful
- Y. Basnett; J. Engle / Overseas Development Institute, 2013
- Aid for Trade (AfT) has emerged as an important vehicle to help the private sector in developing countries to improve its trade capacity and to benefit from the expansion of global markets, which would allow for economic growth and jo...
- Department of Economics, Strathclyde University
- University department. Research interests in the Department are wide-ranging, with particular emphasis on Applied Microeconomics, Applied Econometrics, Regional Economics and Energy Economics.
- BRICS Information Centre
- Based at the University of Toronto, Canada, the BRICS Information Centre aims is to serve as a leading independent source of information and analysis on the BRICS interaction and institutions. Documentation from the BRICS and research and reports will be published on this website as they become available. Together with international partners from the BRICS countries, the BRICS Informati...
- BRICS Policy Center / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS
- The BRICS Policy Center (BPC) / Centro de Estudos e Pesquisas BRICS is a joint initiative of the City of Rio de Janeiro and the Pontifical Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro (PUC-Rio). The Center is dedicated to the study of the BRICS countries (Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa) and other middle powers, and it is administered by the Institute of International Relations...
- Global Economic Governance Africa (GEGAfrica)
- The aims of the GEGAfrica project are to undertake and promote research driven by African needs, to advise policymakers, and stimulate and inform public and media interest on global economic governance. It is a joint initiative of the International Development Law Unit at the University of Pretoria and the South African Institute of International Affairs (SAIIA). The Global Economic Go...
- Secretaría General Iberoamericana (SEGIB)
- SEGIB is an Inter-governmental organisation for the provision of institutional and technical support to the Iberoamerican Conference and the Iberoamerican Summit Meeting of Heads of State and Heads of Government. SEGIB has member countries in Latin America and the Iberian Peninsula - Spain, Portugal and Andorra.
- International Emissions Trading Association (IETA)
- The International Emissions Trading Association (IETA) is a non-profit business organisation created in June 1999 to establish a functional international framework for trading in greenhouse gas emission reductions.
- IDH Sustainable Trade Initiative (IDH)
- IDH accelerates and upscales sustainable trade by building impact oriented coalitions of front running multinationals, civil society organisations, governments and other stakeholders. Through convening public and private interests, strengths and knowledge, IDH programs help make sustainability the new norm and deliver impact on Millennium Development Goals 1, 7 and 8.
- Scottish Institute for Research in Economics (SIRE)
- The SIRE aims to: develop and sustain a reputation for internationally excellent research in major fields of economics, building around and beyond existing strengths, enabling economics in Scotland to compete effectively in the global academic market place attract high quality graduate students to Scotland, consolidating and enhancing the growing success of...
- United Nations Development Policy and Analysis Division (DPAD)
- The development policy and analysis division (DPAD) is the main development research division of the United Nations secretariat.
- Anti-Corruption Research Network (ACRN)
- The Anti-Corruption Research Network (ACRN) is an online platform and the global meeting point for a research community that spans a wide range of disciplines and institutions. ACRN is a podium to present innovative findings and approaches in corruption / anti-corruption research, a sounding board to bounce off ideas and questions, a marketplace to announce jobs, events, courses and funding. The p...
