Intellectual property rights
- Sprinting during a marathon: why the WTO ministerial failed in July 2008
- R. Wolfe / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale , 2009
- The WTO’s rush in July 2008 was an attempt to break the logjam on "modalities" for agriculture and NAMA in the marathon Doha Round negotiations. This paper is a counterfactual analysis...
- The special safeguard fiasco in the WTO: the perils of inadequate analysis and negotiation
- R. Wolfe / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale , 2009
- The July 2008 attempt to agree on modalities for the WTO’s Doha Round broke down in part because ministers could not agree on a proposed special safeguard mechanism (SSM) for developing countrie...
- Institutions and intellectual property reform in developing countries
- D. Lippoldt / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale , 2008
- This policy brief examines key dimensions of the institutional changes with respect to intellectual property rights (IPRs) in developing countries (DCs). Currently, conformity with the minimum global ...
- Preferential trade agreements in services: friends or foes of the multilateral trading system?
- C. Fink / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale , 2008
- To examine preferential services liberalisation and its consequences for the multilateral trading system, this paper: ...
- Has economic analysis improved regulatory decisions?
- R.W. Hahn;P.C. Tetlock / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale , 2007
- This paper provides an assessment of government-supported economic analysis of regulation. It argues that while there is growing interest in the use of economic tools, such as benefit -cost analysis, ...
- EPAs: Thinking outside the European box
- C. Delpeuch;G. Harp / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale , 2007
- The preferences granted by the European Union (EU) to the ACP countries in Cotonou are neither reciprocal nor extended to all developing countries and therefore not compliant with WTO legislation. As ...
- EPAs: a plan ‘A+’
- P.A. Messerlin;C. Delpeuch / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale , 2007
- The authors criticise the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) currently proposed by the EU to the African, Caribbean and Pacific countries (ACPs). They point out that those EPAs will prove extre...
- One minute to midnight: is there still time to rethink EPAs?
- C. Delpeuch / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale , 2007
- The European Union (EU) and the African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries are entering the final negotiations over Economic Partnership Agreements (EPA) that would liberalise bilateral trade ...
- Assessing the EC trade policy in goods
- P. A. Messerlin / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale , 2007
- This paper argues that the recent shift in European trade policy to negotiate bilateral agreements with no less than 24 countries is taking Europe into dangerous waters. The bilaterals considered by t...
- Subsidies and regulatory reform in West African cotton: what are the development stakes?
- B. Shepherd; C. Delpeuch / Groupe d'Economie Mondiale , 2007
- West Africa has acheived some success in making the case in international negotiations over the reform of the cotton market international community. But some countries (espcially Mali) are in danger ...
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