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  Making WTO membership work for Viet Nam: globalization as critical discourse

  Mekonginfo, 2005

  This paper asks what mechanisms are at work to turn formerly ant-capitalist leaders of Vietnam into supporters of globalisation. It concludes that globalisation is in fact a critical – liberating – discourse, providing the poor with positive examples of progress and embuing them with the 'capacity to aspire'.
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  EU–ACP Economic Partnership Agreements: the effects of reciprocity

  Institute of Development Studies UK, 2005

  This briefing discusses the potential implications of the EPAs, as reflected in recent research from the IDS.
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  The future of the WTO: addressing institutional challenges in the new millennium

  World Trade Organization, 2004

  In the light of recent setbacks of the WTO, particularly in Seattle and Cancun, this report looks at the state of the organisation in order to study and clarify institutional challenges and to consider how the organisation can be reinforced to meet these challenges in the future.
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  The WTO in 2003: structural shifts, state-of-play and prospects for the Doha Round

  Institute of Defence and Strategic Studies, 2003

  Much has changed in the transition from the General Agreement on Trade and Tariffs (GATT) to the World Trade Organisation (WTO). The WTO goes deeper and wider than its predecessor the GATT, and the Doha Round of negotiations proposes to enter territories such as investment, competition and environment-related policies.
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  The WTO agreement on rules of origin: implications for South Asia

  Centre for Development Studies, Kerala, India, 2003

  The history of 'rules of origin' – the criteria for determining the national source of origin of products – have become an essential part of any trade policy regime, for commercial policy tools, more often than not, discriminate among countries.
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  Analytical study of the High Commissioner for Human Rights on the fundamental principle of non-discrimination in the context of globalization

  United Nations High Commission for Human Rights, 2004

  This report considers how globalisation has brought new attention to the principle of non-discrimination by:providing opportunities for increasing commercial and cultural exchangehighlighting inequalities within and between countriesIt argues that the prohibition of discrimination provides an essential principle for globalisation.
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  Economic implications of China’s accession to the WTO

  Institute of World Economics and Politics, Chinese Academy of Social Sciences (CASS), 2003

  China – the world’s eighth largest importer, the sixth largest trading power in 2001, with a population of 1.3 billion people – joined the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 2001. What are the implications of this entry for China and the rest of the world? Will it lead to a surge in exports from China? Or, will it lead to job losses in the Chinese economy?
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  Towards a development-supportive dispute settlement system in the WTO

  International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development, 2003

  The WTO’s dispute settlement system is not a neutral technocratic process in its structure and operation. This resource paper examines how it may become more supportive of the sustainable development goals of developing countries.
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  Globalizing embedded liberalism: some lessons for the WTO's 'development' round from the New International Economic Order (NIEO)

  Robarts Centre for Canadian Studies, 2003

  Over the past four decades, efforts have been made at the United Nations to overcome the asymmetrical structure of world trade and distribute the benefits from participation in the trading system more equally.
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  The WTO'S problematic "last resort" against noncompliance

  Swiss Institute for International Economics and Applied Economic Research, 2003

  Trade-restricting remedies provide a ‘last resort’ mechanism for the WTO to address non-compliance. This paper evaluates the experience so far in using trade measures to respond to non-compliance, and argues that the disadvantages of the approach outweigh its advantage.

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