Trade, Globalisation and Security
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Subsidies and Regulatory Reform in West African Cotton: What are the Development Stakes?
Available evidence strongly suggests that cotton producers in West Africa are relatively unresponsive to changes in world prices. This means they are...
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Germany and the G-8 Presidency
Germany’s G-8 Presidency occurs in a formative period for German foreign economic policy. It is about to step out of the post-Cold War order, but...
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EU-Africa Trade Relations: The Political Economy of Economic Partnership Agreements
Research Areas: Africa EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Peter DraperFor the last five years the European Union has been negotiating Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) with the African, Caribbean, and Pacific...
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A Transatlantic Divide?
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance North America Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThe TRIPs plus phenomenon (additional steps to strengthen the Agreement on Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights) tends to be...
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Trade Policy in Asia
By: Razeen SallyTrade policy in Asia is dangerously unbalanced. It rests on a shaky leg of discriminatory bilateral and regional FTAs. Its other WTO leg has gone...
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Are Developing Countries Deterred from Using the WTO Dispute Settlement System?
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityBy: Roderick AbbottThe data issued by the WTO Secretariat on disputes shows that ‘developing countries’ have participated in one-third of the cases 1995-2005. The...
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Assessing the EC Trade Policy in Goods
The recent shift in European trade policy to negotiate bilateral agreements with no less than 24 countries is taking Europe into dangerous waters....
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How Much Further Can the WTO Go? Developed Countries Issues
Research Areas: Trade, Globalisation and SecurityA lack of political leadership is often perceived as the main source of the repeated difficulties of the WTO. The paper argues that such a lack of...
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Coping with Trade Liberalisation Adjustments
With the prospect of further trade liberalisation the question for developing and vulnerable countries of how best to manage the adjustment process...
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Intellectual Property Rights, Pharmaceuticals and Foreign Direct Investment
Tags: foreign direct investment globalisation innovation intellectual property pharmaceutical industryIn response to the challenges and opportunities of globalisation, the pharmaceutical sector has evolved to become one of the most dynamic and...