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Complementarity between multilateral lending and private flows to developing countries : some empirical results [PDF]
Despite the surge in private capital flows in the 1990s, lending by the multilateral development banks continues to be a significant source of external finance for low-income and lower-middle-income countries.
Ratha, Dilip
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Towards a new multilateral energy architecture? [PDF]
, 2012 From climate change over peak oil to the geopolitical scramble for the Arctic, there are ample signs that a global energy crisis is unfolding. The sheer scale and urgency of this looming crisis calls for international coordination.
Van de Graaf, Thijs
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The Rise of the Southern Economies: Implications for the WTO-Multilateral Trading System [PDF]
The rise of the emerging southern economies ? China, India, Brazil, and South Africa (CIBS) ? as both economic and political actors, is having significant and far-reaching impact on the world economy.
Nenci, Silvia
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We use data for 143 developing countries during the period 1980-2004 to study empirically the relationship between multilateral aid (as proxied by IDA flows) and support for US foreign policy, as measured by voting alignment at the United Nations General
Paolo Pinotti, Riccardo Settimo
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Significance of Employing a Multilateral Index Formula for Interstate Comparisons: A Case Study of the Australian Farm Sector [PDF]
The paper demonstrates the drawbacks on using official data and binary indices when attempting an interstate comparison of output and productivity growth. The use of official data in one’s national currency still requires a numerary currency due to price
Boon L. Lee
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The WTO and the Cartagena Protocol: International Policy Coordination or Conflict? [PDF]
International policy coordination is a challenging exercise requiring policy rapprochement among sovereign nations that often have very different political economy situations.
Isaac, Grant E.
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Issues of Fairness in International Trade Agreements [PDF]
In this paper, we first describe the characteristics of the World Trade Organization (WTO) that are the basis of the framework of the multilateral trading system. We then provide an overview of concepts of fairness in trade agreements.
Andrew Brown, Robert Stern
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Multilateralism versus Regionalism!? [PDF]
The well-known question whether regional trade agreements (RTAs) and the multilateral trading system (MTS) are "strangers, friends, or foes" (Bhagwati and Panagariya, 1996) has gained new importance with the widespread proliferation of RTAs in recent ...
Bernhard Herz, Marco Wagner
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What Can Researchers Learn From the Suspension of the Doha Round Negotiations in 2006? [PDF]
The Doha Round of multilateral trade negotiations was suspended for almost six months in 2006. The purpose of this paper is to ask what scholars can learn about the political economy of reciprocal trade liberalisation from this suspension.
Simon J. Evenett
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