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Will climate change affect global trade?

To what extent will trade be affected by climate change? This paper indicates key linkages between trade and climate change and reviews how their respective policies interact. The authors pose questions on whether they can be mutually supportive.

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EU Ban, HACCP Compliance and Shrimp Exports from Bangladesh: M Yunus / 2012; The paper evaluates the impact of the European Union import ban in 1997 and HACCP compliance on Bangladesh’s shrimp exports by using an augmented gravity model. The paper evaluates the impact of the E...
India & Bangladesh: bilateral trade- potential free trade agreement: 2006; India and Bangladesh have long shared common objectives for closer economic integration within the South Asia region and trade between the two countries has grown rapidly since the early 1990s. A free...
Empirical risk analysis of Indian trade's exposure to an EU border carbon adjustment measure: K. Das / Research and Information System for the Non-Aligned and Other Developing Countries, India, 2012; This document is an empirical analysis of India’s trade vulnerabilities to a possible border carbon adjustment scheme implemented by the European Union (EU). Many EU countries consider such a sc...
Global market oppertunitiy in export of jute: M Rahman / Centre for Policy Dialogue, Bangladesh, 2011; Based on this study Centre for policy dialogue (CPD) highlights the involvement of Bangladesh in global trade of both raw jute and jute goods over the past years ,present situation of the trade, and f...
Tackling corruption without tackling inefficiency likely to make trade facilitations useless: B. Michael;F. Ferguson;A. Karimov / Anti-Corruption Research Network, 2011; Customs-related corruption costs World Customs Organisation (WCO) members at least $2 billion in customs revenue each year, while conventional wisdom suggests that trade facilitation programmes red...
Dynamics and Causality among Exports, Imports and Income in Bangladesh: M A Hossain / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies , 2009; The objective of this paper is to examine the causality among exports, imports and income in Bangladesh. Bangladesh provides a good case for studying this relationship because of significant dependenc...
Working paper analysing the impacts of low greenhouse gas consumption strategies: P. Erickson;A. Owen;E. Dawkins / Stockholm Environment Institute , 2012; This working paper examines different low greenhouse gas (GHG) consumption strategies and their impacts on developing countries. The paper notes that many of the goods consumed in high-income countrie...
Liberalisation and Growth in Bangladesh An Empirical Investigation: O K M R Bashar / Bangladesh Institute of Development Studies , 2009; Economic liberalization entails either trade liberalization or financial and capital account liberalisation or both. Starting from the mid-1980s, Bangladesh gradually introduced various liberalisation...
Global trade liberalisation contributed to food insecurity in the Caribbean and responsive agriculture-based policies are needed: J.R.D. Ford (ed);G. Rawlins (ed);P. Conforti (ed) / Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations , 2007; There is considerable controversy over the impacts of trade policy and trade on food security. This book provides an overview of the interface between trade, trade policy and food security in the C...
Trade and climate change: policy and economic implications for South Africa: P du Plooy / 2011; This paper is a scoping assessment of the inter-relationship between international trade and climate change negotiations as it affects policy development in South Africa. The paper highlights two key ...