Trade liberalisation
- Stopping protectionism as a response to the crisis
- As the global slowdown spreads and deepens, protectionism is back. These collected essays make suggestions for global leaders. Common messages are that macroeconomic initiatives are best to fight this crisis and leaders should agree a framework to complete the Doha Round and establish a surveillance mechanism to track any new protection.
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- Structural causes of rural poverty in Latin America
- ( C. Kay / Centre for Development Policy and Research, SOAS , 2009)
- Neither the state-driven development strategy of import-substitution industrialisation from the late 1940s to the 1970s nor the neoliberal market-driven strategy since the 1980s has been able to resol...
- Towards replacing the neoliberal model with a new way of thinking
- ( G. Hobbs;D. Tucker / War on Want , 2009)
- This report examines the employment impacts of trade liberalisation, as well as impact assessments for the current round of world trade talks and the new wave of bilateral EU trade deals. The paper sh...
- Competitive challenges for Asia from liberalisation in developing countries?
- ( United Nations Economic and Social Commission for Asia and the Pacific , 2009)
- One of the most striking features of global economic development over the past few decades has been the rise to prominence of Asia in international trade. This report takes a closer look at the extent...
- How to mitigate the negative effects of Asian overlapped FTAs in the future?
- ( M. Kawai;G. Wignaraja / Asian Development Bank Institute , 2009)
- A lively debate is taking place over the impact of free trade agreements (FTAs) on East Asia's business. This paper seeks to address the critical question of whether the Asian noodle bowl of multiple ...
- EU-MERCOSUR trade agreement: what are the factors entail risks of negative impacts?
- ( L. Hinojosa / Brooks World Poverty Institute, University of Manchester , 2008)
- The trade-sustainable impact assessments of the European Union-Mercosur trade agreement find that the social and environmental impacts of the trade liberalisation scenario would be mixed and potential...
- Should free trade agreements (FTAs) try to harmonise competition laws?
- ( S. Sahu (ed);N. Gupta (ed) / Indian Council for Research on International Economic Relations , 2008)
- The failure to include competition provisions at the WTO multilateral framework provided the scope for including their inclusion at bilateral/regional level. However, there are large differences acros...
- International agreements: what provisions can increase the likelihood of a financial crisis?
- ( Third World Network , 2009)
- This policy note states that north-south free trade agreements (FTAs), bilateral investment treaties (BTIs) and WTO commitments often contain a number of provisions that can increase the likelihood of...
- Government procurement as a development tool and instrument for macroeconomic management
- ( South Centre , 2008)
- The ability of governments to procure from firms of its own choice can be an important development tool and can also be an instrument for macroeconomic management. This Policy Brief analyses the scope...
- Stopping protectionism must be high on the agenda for G20 leaders
- ( R. Baldwin;S. Evenett / Vox , 2009)
- This ebook aims to inform practical measures to address the problem of protectionism amongst policy makers leading up to the G20 summit April 2009. The authors suggest that trade must be a more centra...
- The importance of concluding Doha Round for mitigating protectionist risks
- ( U. Dadush / Carnegie Endowment for International Peace , 2009)
- Although the impact of trade-restricting measures enacted so far is small, the risk of a devastating resurgence of protectionism is real. This paper deems that a trade war today would generate even gr...
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