Competitive Liberalization or Competitive Diversion? The Relationship between Preferential Trade Agreements and the Multilateral Trading System [PDF]
This article discusses whether the current proliferation of preferential trade agreements-the so-called "competitive liberalization"-encourages evolution toward multilateral free trade. It argues that countries pursuing preferential trade initiatives are
Soamiely Andriamananjara
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Sustainable debt bond is an emerging instrument aiming at providing companies and governments with extra resources for financing social and environmental policies and attempting to make progress on the Sustainable Development Goals. Regional governments in Spain have issued sustainable bonds in recent years to finance different spending ...
Alberto Turnes +2 more
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Does Regionalism Hinder Multilateralism: A Case Study of India. [PDF]
Today many developing countries fear that regional movements in other parts of the world will adversely impact their trade as regionalism overtakes multilateralism.
Amit Sadhukhan, Manoj Pant
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study pursues a dual objective. First, it investigates the unconditional impact of anti‐globalization on structural transformation in Africa. Second, it explores how environmental degradation interacts with anti‐globalization to influence structural transformation. The analysis focuses on 52 African countries over the period 2005–2023. To
Simplice A. Asongu, Ekene ThankGod Emeka
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Trade Unions and Sustainability: An Integrative Review
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Despite the growing presence of trade unions (TUs) in sustainability discussions, academic research on their role is still scattered. This article presents an integrative review of 110 peer‐reviewed English‐language academic articles on this topic, indexed in Scopus and Web of Science and published between 1997 and early 2025.
Branko Bembič +2 more
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Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study evaluates the dynamic relationship between Green Finance (proxied by green Official Development Assistance) and the expansion of Renewable Energies on biodiversity conservation across 48 African countries over the period 2000–2017.
Mounkaila Gourouza Nana Hadiza +1 more
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Asian Regional Institutions and the Possibilities for Socializing the Behavior of States [PDF]
Departing from the traditional yardsticks for measuring the performance and effectiveness of regional institutions, this paper proposes a new framework to investigate their effect in the socialization (i.e. internalization of group norms by newcomers) of
Acharya, Amitav
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Climate Vulnerability and Renewable Energy Consumption: The Moderating Role of Financial Development
Sustainable Development, EarlyView.ABSTRACT This study investigates the nexus between climate vulnerability (CVUL) and renewable energy consumption (RECO) and tests the moderating effect of financial development (FD) on this relationship. The analysis is, particularly, relevant for the 162 panel countries observed between 1995 and 2022, which face diverse climate risks and exhibit ...
Sorin Gabriel Anton
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Correction: Comparative analysis of the lethality pattern of Covid-19 and the response of BRICS countries to the pandemic in the context of multilateralism: An ecological study. [PDF]
PLoS OneMartins TCF +4 more
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Ambition, Complexity, and Legitimacy of Pursuing Mutual Supportiveness through the EU's External Environmental Action [PDF]
, 2011 Morgera, Elisa
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