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WTO Law and
International Emissions Trading: Is There Potential for Conflict?
In order to meet their emission reduction targets with minimum adverse
effects on their economies, it is highly likely that UNFCCC Annex I
governments will pursue emission reduction policies in such a way as to
require of foreign products to mirror the "climate costs" of their
production processes or to favour domestic "climate friendly" producers
over foreign ones. Such treatments could occur in governing eligibility
for participation in emissions trading or in the access to and amount of
allocated tradable emission units.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1145242
The Trials of Winning at the WTO: What Lies Behind Brazil’s Success
This Article aims to advance our understanding of three sets of
interrelated questions: who shapes international trade law through
litigation and bargaining; how do they do so; and what broader effects do
international trade law and judicialization have within a country. It
Article builds from four years of empirical investigation of international
trade dispute settlement and its impact in Brazil. Its point of entry is
an examination of what lies behind Brazil's ……… of the World Trade
Organization (WTO) ………
http://works.bepress.com/cgi/viewcontent.cgi?article=1019&context=gregory_shaffer
Toward a More
Effective WTO: The Role of Variable Geometry
Since the Uruguay Round, the World Trade Organization (WTO) has become an
increasingly controversial institution. On the one hand, it has been
assailed for having gone too far. Some critics, typically reflecting the
concerns of many developing countries, claim that by making all of its
members adopt agreements such as those relating to Trade Related
Intellectual Property and Investment Measures (TRIPs and TRIMs), the WTO
has strayed beyond its basic trade mission and forced many of its members
to accept obligations that are …......
http://www.petersoninstitute.org/publications/papers/paper.cfm?ResearchID=949
TRIPs: Present Status and Future Directions
Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights (TRIPS) is the first
comprehensive and global set of rules, covering the protection of
intellectual property rights (IPRs) such as, copyrights and related
rights, patents, trademarks, geographical indications, industrial designs
and lay out designs of integrated circuits, trade secrets, and plant
varieties. Moreover, it provides the minimum standards for the protection
of intellectual property rights, equally applicable to all member
countries of the agreement. In this regard, there are two prominent
treaties, such as, the Paris Convention (1883) for the protection of
industrial property, and the Berne ………
http://worldtradereview.com/news.asp?pType=N&iType=A&iID=182&siD=14&nID=41266
Information Gaps, Information Systems, and the WTO's
Trade Policy Review Mechanism
Lack of information is a severe barrier to
effective participation by developing countries in the international trade
regime. Information systems in international regimes are the sets of
institutions, actors and procedures involved in collecting, analysing and
disseminating information about members’ actions and the regime’s
effectiveness. The multilateral trade regime’s … This paper asks: how has
the TPRM responded to the demands for information and transparency in the
trade regime, particularly from the perspective of developing countries?
http://www.globaleconomicgovernance.org/docs/Arunabha%20Ghosh%20Final.pdf
Regional Economic
Cooperation
EU and U.S.
Free Trade Agreements in the Middle East and North Africa
Free trade agreements between the West (U.S. and EU) and Middle East
and North African (MENA) countries, while containing beneficial
elements, have strengthened negative perceptions of “western-led
globalization” because they benefit unpopular elites and impose
serious short term economic adjustment, concludes Riad al Khouri, a
Carnegie Middle East Center economist specializing in MENA
countries. Examining the socio-economic and political effects of
American and European trade agreements on Jordan, Morocco, and Egypt
in EU ………
http://www.carnegieendowment.org/files/cmec8_al_khouri_final.pdf
Effects of Free Trade Agreement on Indo-China Trade
Given the nature of huge trade inflows into the Indian market from
the China this paper tries to shape up the possible effects that a
free trade agreement between these trading giants will have. In
addition to a general overview of how trading relation has gone
about in the last decade we will try to magnify into the fact that
whether the proposed FTA agreement between India and China will lead
to any welfare gains for India or not.
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1152134
The Impact of Economic Partnership Agreements in Countries of the
Southern African Development Community
In the context of economic partnership agreements (EPAs) currently
under negotiation between the European Union (EU) and African,
Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, trade is meant to be
progressively liberalised in a reciprocal way as of 2008. EPAs are
also intended to foster existing regional integration efforts among
the ACP. This paper presents a computable general equilibrium model
simulation of the impact of EPAs for countries of the Southern
African Development Community (SADC). Different liberalisation
scenarios are compared. We find that EPAs with the EU are ………
http://jae.oxfordjournals.org/cgi/content/abstract/17/1/85
Will the EU-Africa Economic Partnership Agreements Foster the
Integration of African Countries into the Global Trading System?
New Economic Partnership Agreements were intended to replace the
non-reciprocal EU-ACP trade relationship by 1 January 2008 in a bid
to further the development of ACP countries under a WTO-compatible
framework. African countries and regions failed to conclude any EPAs
by that date due to scepticisms on the deeper trade implications of
the EPAs and the non-implementation of the EPA preparatory ………. This
paper sets out to examine the state of play of the EPA negotiations
against the backdrop of the last-minute initialled Interim
Agreements and their implication on the regional integration agenda
of the African Economic Community (AEC).
http://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1145537
Trade Facilitation in ASEAN Member Countries :
Measuring Progress and Assessing Priorities
This paper reviews recent progress and indicators of trade
facilitation in member countries of the Association of Southeast Asian
Nations. The findings show that import and export costs vary considerably
in the member countries, from very low to moderately high levels. Tariff
and non-tariff barriers are generally low to moderate. Infrastructure
quality and services sector ………. The authors find that trade flows in
Southeast Asia are particularly sensitive to transport infrastructure and
information and communications technology. The results suggest that the
region stands to make significant economic gains from trade facilitation
reform. These gains could be considerably larger ………
http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469372
&piPK=64165421&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20080506092605
Developmental
Issues
Standards and Agricultural Trade in Asia
In developing countries markets for agri-food products are changing at a
pace that is unparalleled in modern history. Markets are increasingly open
and increasingly homogenized toward international tastes and requirements
for levels of quality, packaging, safety, and even process attributes such
as socially or environmentally friendly methods. New distribution
channels, dominated by larger firms including supermarket retailers, are
imposing high performance demands on their value chains.
http://www.adbi.org/discussion-paper/2008/05/22/2542.standards.agricultural.trade.asia/
How Effective is European Commission Aid on the Ground?
In 2007, ODI undertook a project commissioned by the Committee on Development
(CD) of the European Parliament (EP) to assess the effectiveness of
international development assistance from the European Commission (EC). The
project examined EC aid on the ground in three very different countries:
Cambodia, Mozambique, and Peru (see Table 1). This Project Briefing highlights
the main findings, lessons, and recommendations that emerged from the synthesis
report prepared for the project.
http://www.odi.org.uk/publications/briefing/project-briefings/pb13-EC-aid.pdf
The Impact of Remittances on Rural Poverty and Inequality in
China
Large numbers of agricultural labor moved from the countryside to cities
after the economic reforms in China. Migration and remittances play an important
role in transforming the structure of rural household income. This paper
examines the impact of rural-to-urban migration on rural poverty and inequality
in the case of Hubei province using the data of a 2002 household survey. Since
remittances are a potential substitute for farm income, the paper presents
counterfactual scenarios of what rural income, poverty, and inequality would
have been in the absence of migration.
http://econ.worldbank.org/external/default/main?pagePK=64165259&theSitePK=469372&piPK=64165421
&menuPK=64166093&entityID=000158349_20080528140510
Health Insurance in
Low-Income Countries: Where is the Evidence that it Works?
All people have a right to health. In poor countries, the challenge is to
finance systems that will deliver that right. After 20 years of one failed
health financing mechanism – user fees – some actors in the international
community are proposing that health insurance mechanisms will close health
financing gaps and benefit poor people. This paper describes those mechanisms
and their success or failure to deliver health rights particularly for people
living in poverty. The paper shows that although health insurance can have a
positive effect on access to health ………
http://www.oxfam.org/en/files/bp112_health_insurance_0805.pdf/download
Food Price Crisis: A Wake
up Call for Food Sovereignty
Food prices have been increasing sharply since 2005. According to the World
Bank, global food prices have climbed by 83% over the last three years. The real
price of rice rose to a 19-year high in March 2008¯an increase of 50% in two
weeks alone¯while the real price of wheat hit a 28-year high, triggering an
international crisis. The increase in food prices is impacting the most
vulnerable and the poor are particularly affected, as their diets rely on the
very staples that are becoming scarce or too costly: cereal grains, cooking oil,
and dairy.
http://www.oaklandinstitute.org/pdfs/Food_Prices_Brief.pdf
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