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Technical document containing the identification of specific practical problems

14 November 2018

In this report, the research team analyses the non-tariff difficulties to international trade of Brazil and Argentina, especially (but not limited to) the bilateral trade. The report will also identify the more ...

Identificação dos setores

14 November 2018

This report examines technical regulations, standards and conformity assessment procedures for different economic sectors in Brazil and in Argentina, under the multilateral trading system rules for trade in goods. Yes Brazil Identificação dos setores.pdf ...

Study identifying 7 priority industrial sectors

14 November 2018

The main goals of this document are: Identifying 7 industrial products’ sectors of current or potential significance in terms of trade between the EU and Brazil (priority sectors); Taking into consideration, in this analysis, the interests of EU business ...

Comércio e Gênero: um novo tema na agenda internacional

14 November 2018

Researches show that women with their own income are more independent and less ...

La multiplicación de los estándares privados de sustentabilidade ¿Hay un rol para la OMC?

14 November 2018

Voluntary sustainability standards are part of the new challenges faced by the multilateral trading system. Regulatory barriers to trade, especially technical barriers and sanitary and phytosanitary measures, apply to several sectors such as trade in serv ...

Quantity Formulation vs. Price Formulation and Assessment of the Minimum Price Policy in the Tunisian Dairy Sector

12 November 2018

The objectives of this article are to develop a partial equilibrium model for a dairy sector according to two approaches—“Quantity Formulation” and “Price Formulation”—and to show their equivalence under the assumption of perfect competition. We introduce ...

Risk Aversion, Environmental Regulation and Cournot Competition on Electricity Wholesale Market

12 November 2018

This paper analyses the effect of green energy promotion policies in a decentralized power industry. We develop a Cournot duopolistic competition between risk-adverse operators each detaining polluting and clean technologies. We show that the subsidy-base ...

Governance and renewable energy investment in MENA: How trade matters?

12 November 2018

Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries have recently developed their renewable energy markets. However, their rate of investment in renewable energy remains small as compared to other regions in the world, despite their relative abundant endowments ...

Threshold effect of globalization on democracy: The role of demography

12 November 2018

The literature presents conflicting expectations about the effect of globalization on democracy. One view expects globalization to enhance democracy, a second argues that globalization obstructs democracy; a third argues that it does not necessarily affec ...

Sectoral FDI and food security in Developing Countries: Does institutional quality matter?

9 November 2018

Developing countries (DCs) have high population growth and food demand. Food security still one of the main goals in these countries. Moreover, foreign direct investment (FDI) is at the heart of their investment policy. For DCs attract FDI is an instrumen ...

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