Search
Searching with a thematic focus on Trade Policy
Showing 3541-3550 of 3822 results
Pages
- Document
Trade Policy Options for Chile: A Quantitative Evaluation
Policy Research Working Papers, World Bank, 1999Welfare 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.DocumentThe GATS Agreement on Financial Services - A Modest Start to Multilateral Liberalization
International Monetary Fund Working Papers, 1997This 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 attempt at multilateral liberalization of the financial sector.DocumentThe International Contestability of Markets -- Economic perspectives: Issues Paper
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999For 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.DocumentInvestment and the Final Act of the Uruguay Round: A Preliminary Stocktaking
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999This 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 was not placed formally on the negotiating agenda of the Round.DocumentTrade and Investment Interface
Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development, 1999This 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.DocumentBuilding China's Information Technology Industry: Tariff Policy and China's Accession to the WTO
Berkeley Roundtable on the International Economy, 1997A 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.DocumentThe TRIPs Agreement: A Guide for the South: The Uruguay Round Agreement on Trade-Related Intellectual Property Rights
South Centre, 1997This 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 point to some of the implications for these countries.DocumentA Dynamic Simulation Model of Tourism and Environment in the Yucatan Peninsula [Mexico]
International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis, 1997Tourism 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 dynamic relationships between economy, environment, and population.DocumentTrade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS Agreement)
World Trade Organization, 1999The TRIPS Agreement, which came into effect on 1 January 1995, is to date the most comprehensive multilateral agreement on intellectual property. The areas of intellectual property that it covers are: copyright and related rights (i.e.