Trade, Globalisation and Security
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Trade Costs and Productivity in Services Sectors
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityFor goods sectors, there is extensive empirical evidence that lower trade costs are associated with higher productivity at the firm- and...
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Did Euro Leaders Say Goodbye to the IMF?
By: Fredrik ErixonThis policy brief takes stock of the agreement by Eurozone countries in late June at the European summit. If this agreement survives (which is by no...
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Beyond Dutch Disease: When Deteriorating Rule of Law affects Russian Trade in High-Tech Goods and Services with Advanced Economies
Tags: economy Information and Communications Technology Russia services technology trade in goods WTOHow does Russia’s deterioration of its rule of law in recent years affect its ability to move away from an export pattern dominated by natural...
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Aid for Trade is Reaching its Limits, so What’s Next?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe Aid for Trade Initiative has reached its limits and is in a need to be revamped. This article describes the political economy that led to the...
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Will Asia Shape or Shake the World Economy?
Asia’s economic rise has changed the world economy – and will continue to do so in the future as well. George Magnus in his policy brief claims...
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Russia in the WTO: Unriddling the Mystery of Russia’s Trade Policy
By: Fredrik ErixonAfter almost two decades of accession negotiations, Russia was invited in mid-December last year to join the World Trade Organisation (WTO). This was...
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What Power Shift to China?
Tags: ChinaAs the west struggles under the double burden of anaemic growth and massive debt, the belief has become common that power is shifting to China. But...
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Trade and Development at the Crossroads?
Research Areas: Africa EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Roderick AbbottThis paper seeks to look at EU Trade and Development policies which seem to be at a crucial moment - crucial in the sense of the point at which the...