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E-Commerce | Investment| Competition Policy

Articles on E-commerce  | Artículos sobre comercio electrónico  


Agency for International Trade Information and Cooperation - AITIC. (1999).
Electronic Commerce within the Framework of the WTO: Implications for the Less Advantaged Countries.


Mann, C. and Orejas, D. (November, 2001). Can NAFTA Forge A Global Approach to Internet Governance.


Mattoo, Aaditya and Schuknecht, Ludger. (2000). Trade Policies for Electronic Commerce.

 


Singh, A. Didar. (1999).
Electronic Commerce: Issues for the South.


WTO. (1999). A Quantitative Assessment of Electronic Commerce.


Articles on Competition Policy  |  Artículos sobre política de Competencia 


Abbott, P. (1998). Competition Policy and Agricultural Trade.


De C. Grey, R. (1999). The Relationship between Anti-Dumping Policy and Competition Policy


Hoekman, B. (1997). Competition Policy and the Global Trading System: A Developing-country Perspective.


Hoekman, Bernard and Petros C. Mavroidis. (2002). Economic Development, Competition Policy, and the World Trade Organization.


Hoekman, B.and Holmes, P. (1999). Competition Policy, Developing Countries, and the WTO.


Jatar, A. and Tineo, L. (1998). Competition Policies in the Andean Countries: The Ups and Downs of a Policy in Search of its Place.


Josling, T. and McLaren, D. (1999). Competition Policy and International Agricultural Trade.


Lahouel, M. and Maskus, K. (1999). Competition Policy and Intellectual Property Rights in Developing Countries: Interests in Unilateral Initiatives and a WTO Agreement.


Maskus, Keith. (2000). Regulatory Standards in the WTO: Comparing Intellectual Property Rights with Competition Policy, Environmental Protection, and Core Labor Standards.


Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development - OECD (1999). Competition Elements in International Trade Agreements: A Post-Uruguay Round Overview of WTO Agreements.
 


Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development - OECD. (1999).
Complementarities Between Trade and Competition Policies.


Singh, A.and Dhumale, R. (1999) Competition Policy, Development and Developing Countries.


Tavares de Araujo Jr., J. (2000). Trade and Competition in B2B Markets.


Tavares de Araujo Jr., J. (2000). Competition Policy and the EU - MERCOSUR Trade Negotiations .


Tavares de Araujo Jr., J. (2001). Legal and Economic Interfaces between Antidumping and Competition Policy.


Tavares de Araujo Jr., J. (1999). Schumpeterian Competition and its Policy Implications: The Latin American Case.


Tavares de Araujo Jr., J. (1998). Trade, Transparency and Competition: FTAA and CER.


Tavares de Araujo Jr., J. - Tineo, L. (1997). The Harmonization of Competition Policies Among MERCOSUR Countries.


Tavares de Araujo Jr., J. (1996). The Use of Economic Indicators as Competition Policy Instruments.


Tavares de Araujo Jr., J. (1995). Contestability and Economic Integration in the Western Hemisphere.


United Nations Conference on Trade and Development - UNCTAD. (1999). Report on the Role of Competition Policy for Development in Globalizing World Markets.

 

Articles on Investment | Artículo sobre inversión 


Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean (ECLAC) (2003). Annual Report on Foreign Investment in Latin America and the Caribbean. (en español)
 


Graham, E. (March, 2002). Economic Issues Raised by Treatment of Takings Under NAFTA Chapter 11 and Mann, H. and von Moltke, K. (March, 2002) Protecting Investor Rights and the Public Good: Assessing NAFTA’s Chapter 11  
 


Klein, M.; Aaron, C.; Hadjimichael, B. Foreign Direct Investment and Poverty Reduction.


Litan, R; Masson, P.; Pmerleano, M. (2001). Foreign Participation in Financial Systems in Developing Countries.
 


Mattoo, A.; Olarreaga, M.; Saggi, K. (2001). Mode of Foreign Entry, Technology Transfer, and FDI Policy.


Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC) (2004.Perspectives on the Services - Investment Nexus

 


Pacific Economic Cooperation Council (PECC). 2004.Perspectives on Services Regulatory Issues


Robert, M. (2001). Multilateral and Regional Investment Rules: What Comes Next?


Smarzynska,B. and Wei, S. (2001). Pollution Heavens and Foreign Direct Investment: Dirty Secret or Popular Myth?


Wheeler, D. (2001). Racing to the Bottom? Foreign Investment and Air Pollution in Developing Countries.
 


WTO. (2001). Investment Policies and Telecommunications Regime.



 

Articles on Other Trade-Related Issues

 

Trade and Development | Smaller Economies| Labor Issues & Trade | Environmental Issues & Trade

 Articles on Trade and Development  


Anderson, K.; Francois, J.; Hertel, T.; Hoekman, B.; Martin, W. (2000).
Potential Gains from Trade Reform in the New Millennium.


Ben-David, D.; Nordström, H. and Winters, L. (1999). Trade, Income Disparity, and Poverty.
Source: WTO


Dollar, D.; Kraay, A. (2001). Trade, Growth, and Poverty.


Edwards, M. and Trueblood, M. (1999). Trade Issues for Low-Income Countries in the Latin American and Caribbean Region.


De Ferranti, D.; Lederman, D.; Perry, G.; Suescún, R. Comercio para el Desarrollo en América Latina y el Caribe


Hertel, T. and Preckel, P. (2002). Poverty Impacts of Multilateral Trade Liberalization.


Hoekman, B.and Holmes, P. (1999).Competition Policy, Developing Countries, and the WTO.


Hoekman, B.; Michalopoulos, C; Schiff, M.; Tarr, D (2001). Trade Policy Reform and Poverty Alleviation.


Hufbauer, G.; Kotschwar, B.; Wilson, J. (2002). Trade Policy, Standards and Development.


Madani, D. (2001). South-South Regional Integration and Industrial Growth: The Case of the Andean Pact.
 


Masi, F. (2001). Preferential Treatment in Trade: Is There Any Room Left in the Americas?
 


Matusz, S. and Tarr, D. (1999). Adjusting to Trade Policy Reform.
 


Michalopoulos, M. (1999). Trade Policy and Market Access Issues for Developing Countries.


Moore, M. (2002). The Challenges of the Doha Development Agenda for Latin American and Caribbean Countries.


Panagariya, Arvind. (1999). E-Commerce, WTO and Developing Countries.


Matoo, A. and Subramanian. (2004). The WTO and the Poorest Countries: The Stark Reality


Schiff, M. (2002). Regional Integration and Development in Small States.


Schiff, M. and Won Chang. (2000). Market Presence, Contestability, and the Terms of Trade Effects of Regional Integration.


Singh, A. and Dhumale, R. (1999) Competition Policy, Development and Developing Countries.


Solimano, A. (2001). Can Reforming Global Institutions Help Developing Countries Share More in the Benefits From Globalization?


Wheeler, D. (2001). Racing to the Bottom? Foreign Investment and Air Pollution in Developing Countries.


WTO. (2000). Market Access: an Unfinished Business. Post-Uruguay Round Inventory and Issues.


WHO & WTO. (2002). WTO Agreements and Public Health.
Source: WTO


Yusuf, S. (2001). Globalisation and the Challenge for Developing Countries.
 

 Articles on Smaller Economies 


Abreu, S. and Bizzozero, L. (1999).
Los Países Pequeños: Su Rol en los Procesos de Integración.


Advisory Board to the Joint Commonwealth Secretariat / World Bank Task Force. Small States: A Composite Vulnerability Index.


Collier, P. and Dollar, P. (1999). Aid, Risk and Special Concerns of Small States.


Commonwealth Secretariat. (2001). Lowering the Threshold: Changing Private Investors' Perceptions by Reducing the Cost and Risk of Investment in Least Developed and Small and Vulnerable Economies.


Commonwealth Secretariat. (2001). Small States: Meeting Challenges in the Global Economy.


Davenport, M. (2001). A Study of Alternative Special and Differential Arrangements for Small Economies: Interim Report.


Easterly, W. and Kraay, A. (1999). Small States, Small Problems? Income, Growth, and Volatility in Small States.
 


Gupta, A. and Schiff, M. (1997). 
Outsiders and Regional Trade Agreements among Small Countries.
 


Hein, P.; Inama,S.; Vossenaar, R. and Encontre, P.  Is a Special Treatment of Small Island Developing States Possible?


OAS Trade Unit (2005).Examination of Asymmetrical Treatment
Provided to Smaller Economies under the WTO Agreements and the DR-CAFTA
.



OAS Trade Unit (1998). Mechanisms and Measures to Facilitate the Participation of Smaller Economies in the FTAA: An Update.


OAS Trade Unit (1997). Small and Relatively Less Developed Economies and Western Hemisphere Integration.
 


Ocampo, J. (2002). Small Economies in the Face of Globalisation


Rutherford, T. and Tarr, D. (1998) Trade Liberalization and Endogenous Growth in a Small Open Economy.


Schiff, M. (2002). Regional Integration and Development in Small States.


Schiff, M. (1996).Small Is Beautiful: Preferential Trade Agreements and the Impact of Country Size, Market Share, Efficiency, and Trade Policy.


World Bank. Selected Bibliography on Small States
 

 Articles on Labor Issues & Trade 


Brown, D. (2000).
International Trade and Core Labor Standards: A Survey of Recent Literature.
 


GAO. (2001). North American Free Trade Agreement: U.S. Experience with Environment, Labor, and Investment Dispute Settlement Cases.


Maloney, W.and Fajnzylber, P. (2000). Labor Demand and Trade Reform in Latin America.


Maskus, K. (1997). Should Core Labor Standards be Imposed Through International Trade Policy?

 


Morici, P. (2001).
Labor Standards in the Global Trading System -- Executive Summary.


Salazar Xirinachs, J.M. (2001). Trade, Labor Standards and Global Governance: A Developing Country’s Perspective.


Shinkai, N. (2000). Does the Stolper-Samuelson Theorem Explain the Movement in Wages? The Linkage Between Trade and Wages in Latin American Countries.
 

Articles on Environmental Issues & Trade  


Audley, J. (2003).
Evaluating Environmental Issues in the U.S.-Singapore FTA.


Esty, Daniel. (2001). Bridging the Trade-Environment Divide.


Gallagher, K. (2000). Trade Liberalization and Industrial Pollution in Mexico: Lessons for the FTAA.


GAO. (2002). International Environment: US Actions to Fulfill Commitments Under Five Key Agreements.


GAO. (2001). North American Free Trade Agreement: U.S. Experience with Environment, Labor, and Investment Dispute Settlement Cases.


Hufbauer, G.; Esty, D.; Orejas, D.; Rubio, L.; Schott, J. (2000). NAFTA and the Environment: Seven Years Later.


Krist, W. (2002). Protecting the Environment while Opening Markets in the Americas.


Larach, M. (1999). Las barreras medioambientales a las exportaciones latinoamericanas de camarones.


Morici, P. (2001). Reconciling Trade and the Environment in the WTO -- Executive Summary.
 


Murillo, C.and Gliti, E. (2000). A Latin American Case for a Trade and Environment Link in the FTAA.
 


Otsuki, T.; Wilson, J.; Sewadeh, M. (2002).
Dirty Exports and Environmental Regulation: Do Standards Matter to Trade?

 


Otsuki, T. and Wilson, J. (2001). To Spray or not to Spray: Pesticides, Banana Exports, and Food Safety.
 


Salazar Xirinachs, J. M. (1998). Comercio y ambiente: una perspectiva costarricense.


Simula, M. (1999). Trade and Environmental Issues in Forest Production.


Smarzynska, B. and Wei, S. (2001). Pollution Heavens and Foreign Direct Investment: Dirty Secret or Popular Myth?


Tussie, D.and Vasquez, P. (2000). Comercio y problemas ambientales en el contexto del MERCOSUR.


Wheeler, D. (2001). Racing to the Bottom? Foreign Investment and Air Pollution in Developing Countries.
 


WTO. (1999). Special Study: Trade and Environment.
 

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