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Bargaining strategies for Developing Countries at the WTO: the case of Thailand and the Agreement on Agriculture in the Uruguay Round of multilateral trade negotiations [PDF]

The central research question of the thesis concerns the bargaining and negotiating strategy, as well as the negotiating process, at the GATT and the WTO in relation to developing countries.
Meepiarn, Worakamol
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TRUST-ME: Trust-Based Resource Allocation and Server Selection in Multi-Access Edge Computing

Future Internet
Multi-access edge computing (MEC) has attracted the interest of the research and industrial community to support Internet of things (IoT) applications by enabling efficient data processing and minimizing latency.
Sean Tsikteris, Aisha B Rahman, Md. Sadman Siraj, Eirini Eleni Tsiropoulou   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Chinese Loans and Africa's Agricultural Investment: A Bayesian Multilevel Modelling Analysis

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Chinese lending to Africa expanded substantially after 2000, with agriculture often presented as a strategic sector in China–Africa development cooperation. This study examined whether Chinese loans to African agriculture reflected a differentiated financing strategy or formed part of a broader development finance portfolio.
Adrino Mazenda
wiley   +1 more source

A Behavioral Model of Multilateral Bargaining and Holdout: Theory with Experimental Evidence [PDF]

Bilateral monopoly, land assembly, and unanimous-consent Coasian bargaining present interesting strategic questions because they involve division of an economic surplus without competition to temper bargaining demands.
Pamela Schmitt, Kurtis Swope, Robert Shupp, John Cadigan   +3 more
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Are current debt relief initiatives an option for scaling up health financing in beneficiary countries?

Bulletin of the World Health Organization
One central goal of the enhanced Heavily Indebted Poor Countries (HIPC) Initiative and the more recent Multilateral Debt Relief Initiative (MDRI) is to free up additional resources for public spending on poverty reduction.
M Kaddar, E Furrer
doaj   +1 more source

Navigating the Indo‐Pacific: The EU's 2025 Council Conclusions Amidst Geopolitical Uncertainty

Global Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT More than four years after the EU released its Indo‐Pacific Strategy (in April 2021), the Council of the EU provided fresh ‘Conclusions’ (in October 2025) stating that the EU should ‘further intensify its strategic focus, presence, visibility and actions in the Indo‐Pacific’.
Nicholas Ross Smith, Richard Whitman, Paul Bacon, Martin Holland   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Commercial treaties and political transformation in Sulu and Southeast Asian littorals, c. 1830–1840

Asia‐Pacific Economic History Review, EarlyView.
Abstract This article re‐examines an economic treaty concluded between Spain and the Sulu Sultanate in 1836. Analysing the Tausug (Jawi) and Spanish treaty versions alongside archival sources from Spain, the Philippines, and England, it traces the impact of indigenous agency beyond the formal signatories on economic and political transformations ...
Eleonora Poggio, Ariel Lopez, Birgit Tremml‐Werner   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in Negotiation Theory: Bargaining, Coalitions and Fairness [PDF]

Bargaining is ubiquitous in real-life. It is a major dimension of political and business activities. It appears at the international level, when governments negotiate on matters ranging from economic issues (such as the removal of trade barriers), to ...
Alessandra Sgobbi, Carlo Carraro, Carmen Marchiori   +2 more
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Maternal education and preventive health behavior: Evidence from Cambodia

Asian Economic Journal, EarlyView.
Abstract We examine the effect of maternal education on preventive health behavior using data from Cambodia. Given concerns about the endogeneity of education, we employ an instrumental variable (IV) strategy that exploits the variation in the average years of maternal education across provinces and between cohorts that entered primary school following
Prelsor Chov, Yumi Ishikawa
wiley   +1 more source

Theorising the Impacts of Polycrisis on Employment Relations: Complexity and Diversity at a Global Scale

British Journal of Industrial Relations, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Polycrisis—understood as intersecting crises that amplify each other rather than unfolding separately—poses profound challenges for employment relations theory and practice. The employment relationship is simultaneously a site where the effects of crises are most acutely experienced and a central mechanism through which profit is generated ...
Tony Dobbins, Fang Lee Cooke, Rea Prouska, Steve Williams, Sean O'Brady   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source