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An Exploration of the WTO Compliance of Some Preferential Policies in Hainan Free Trade Port
With the continuous advancement of China's reform and opening-up, the construction of the Hainan Free Trade Port has become a key project in China's economic development. Since 2018, the Chinese government has clarified Hainan's…
Trade and Environment negotiations status under the WTO
This policy brief investigates the status and implications of the tariff-only approach in the ongoing WTO negotiations on environmental goods (EGs). It traces the evolution of trade and environment discussions from the GATT era to the WTO, focusing…
Manual del Modelo de la OMC: Comité de Comercio y Medio Ambiente
El Comité de Comercio y Desarrollo (CCD), en la primera edición del Modelo OMC – Ecuador, ofrece una plataforma esencial para que los delegados exploren la intersección entre comercio y desarrollo, centrándose en los desafíos y oportunidades que…
Educación, Comercio y Ambiente: La pertinencia del desarrollo sostenible como eje transversal en la formación profesional
El impacto ambiental que tienen los plásticos en el medio ambiente es un problema que se encuentra en la agenda de los Estados y Organismos Mundiales. Pese a ello, los avances han sido escasos pues, no se invierten recursos suficientes ni se cuenta…
Visiones constitucionales de la Organización Mundial del Comercio: entre el desarrollo, el libre mercado y la marginalidad. El caso de Colombia.
Este artículo presenta al lector un análisis de la norma de segundo plano que utiliza la Corte Constitucional colombiana cuando menciona y recurre a las fuentes de la Organización Mundial del Comercio (OMC) en sus fallos. Siendo esto examinado a la…
Trade openness and economic prosperity in South Africa: Pre and post 1994 analysis
This study empirically examines the causal relationship between trade openness and economic prosperity in South Africa with quarterly data from 1970 to 2017. The analysis is disaggregated into pre-1994 and post-1994 to capture the economic situation…
Global value chains and firms’ environmental performance, published in World Development
This paper analyzes the link between joining global value chains (GVCs) and firms’ environmental performance. Based on new survey data for firms in countries in Central Asia, Eastern Europe, and MENA, we use propensity score matching (PSM) to…
The impact of foreign direct investment on Namibia’s economic growth: A time series investigation
AbstractThe current study investigates the impact of foreign direct investment on the growth of Namibia’s economy from 1990 to 2020 using the ARDL cointegration method. The results reveal that FDI, the interactive variable of FDI and trade openness…
A Chinese Perspective on WTO Reform
This book discusses the most recent developments in the WTO regime. Issues such as E-commerce, security exception clause, China's compliance with the WTO obligations, sustainability development, IP protection in FTZs, trade controls and etc.,…
Theoretical concepts of trade policy development and analysis: Evolution and modern challenges in the context of the international trading system transformation
The study of the trade policy concepts within a framework of hyper globalization and global regulation system transformation requires new theoretical and methodological approaches. On the one hand, trade policy design and implementation is closely…