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    Title: The World Bank group trade strategy : fit for purpose?  Author(s): HOEKMAN, Bernard M. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: In 2011 the World Bank Group (WBG) issued a new trade strategy. This identifies the primary axes for WBG engagement and support activities and areas where action is likely to have the greatest positive impact in terms of ...
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    Title: Harnessing trade opportunities in the Middle East and North Africa  Author(s): CHAUFFOUR, Jean-Pierre; HOEKMAN, Bernard M. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: Greater integration into the international economy is a key means through which countries in the Middle East and North Africa can reap the benefits of already existing market opportunities to accelerate economic growth and ...
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    Title: Regional economic links in Latin America : lessons from Asia and challenges from the regional links of other BRICS  Author(s): BAUMANN, Renato Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: Since the early 1950s Latin American countries have made systematic efforts to foster regional transactions. Nevertheless, the indicators of relative importance of regional trade remain well below the corresponding figures ...
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    Title: European Union competencies in respect of media pluralism and media freedom  Author(s): CMPF Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: This report presents the phenomena of media freedom and pluralism and the major academic and policy debates about their social, political, economic role and implications. It highlights the importance of media freedom and ...
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    Title: The role of economic theory in WTO arbitrations  Author(s): RUTA, Michele Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: How can economic theory be useful in WTO arbitrations? Motivated by this question, this paper reviews the approach that is often used to determine the level of permissible retaliation in international trade disputes (the, ...
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    Title: Re-thinking economic development in the WTO  Author(s): HOEKMAN, Bernard M. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The disagreements between the old and new trade powers in the WTO on market access issues that have deadlocked the Doha Round are in part a reflection of the “special and differential treatment” that developing countries ...
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    Title: Supply chains and international cooperation : thinking outside the box  Author(s): HOEKMAN, Bernard M. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The value of world trade has increased 27-fold since 1950, three time more that the growth of global GDP. An increasing share of that trade involves international supply chains and the global fragmentation of production. ...
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    Title: Whither the WTO?  Author(s): CUNNINGHAM, Richard O. Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: This paper discusses the challenges that confront the WTO, inspired by the recent appointment of a new Director-General for the organization and various views that have been expressed by knowledgeable observers as to how ...
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    Title: Getting past the WTO deadlock : The plurilateral option ?  Author(s): WOOLCOCK, Steve Date: 2013 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The WTO’s Doha Development Agenda (DDA) negotiations are blocked. After repeated attempts to make progress, trade ministers have called for exploring new approaches to negotiations. This has been interpreted by some as ...
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    Title: Mercosur as a Regional and Global Protagonist  Author(s): PEÑA, Félix Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: Developing a climate of mutual trust and promoting a renewed regional integration, especially one that enables to connect the economic systems and encourage the proliferation of transnational production chains, are two ...
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    Title: Is There a Legal Duty to Address World Poverty?  Author(s): SALOMON, Margot E. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: States are reticent to support the idea that they have human rights obligations to people other than their own. However decades of United Nations consideration and human rights standard-setting in the area of international ...
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    Title: Rescue at Sea: Human Rights obligations of states and private actors, with a focus on the EU’s external borders  Author(s): SCHEININ, Martin Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: This Policy Paper results from a lecture delivered as part of the Executive Seminar on global governance and transnational human rights obligations, convened at the European University Institute in late November 2011. The ...
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    Title: A New Governance for the European Union and the Euro: Democracy and justice  Author(s): POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The report provides a democratic explanation for the crisis and the EU’s failure in successfully addressing it so far. It argues that the solution to the crisis and the future of EU governance must depart from a renewed ...
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    Title: European Defence: Challenges after the Treaty of Lisbon  Author(s): TEIXEIRA, Nuno Severiano Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: This paper argues on European Defence issues, namely, the challenges after the Treaty of Lisbon. The first part analyses, in an historical perspective, the evolution of European defence, from its origins to the implementation ...
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    Title: A Public Choice View of IP(rizes)  Author(s): LEVMORE, Saul Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: Interest groups have played an important if unappreciated role in shaping intellectual property rights. As economies are driven by ideas, rather than manufactured goods, there is likely to be a reconfiguration of the ...
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    Title: Global Administrative Law: An Italian perspective  Author(s): CASSESE, Sabino; BATTINI, Stefano; D’ALTERIO, Elisa; NAPOLITANO, Giulio; DE BELLIS, Maurizia; CAROLI CASAVOLA, Hilde; MORLINO, Elisabetta; CASINI, Lorenzo; CHITI, Edoardo; SAVINO, Mario Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: This Policy Paper collects a set of contributions given and discussed at the Conference on “Global Administrative Law: an Italian Perspective”, European University Institute, Global Governance Programme, 24 February 2012. ...
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    Title: The Democratic Governance of the Euro  Author(s): BIEBER, Roland; CLOSA MONTERO, Carlos; JAMES, Harold; JOERGES, Christian; NAPOLITANO, Giulio; POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel; DE WITTE, Bruno; KUMM, Mattias Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: This policy paper includes some of the contributions for a group set up at the EUI to address the crisis of the Euro area with a focus on its democratic dimensions. The perspectives included in here are diverse and not ...
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    Title: The Governance Gap: Globalization and the crisis of democracy in the west  Author(s): KUPCHAN, Charles A. Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: A crisis of governability has engulfed the world’s industrialized democracies. It is not coincidental that the United States, Europe, and Japan are simultaneously experiencing political breakdown. Rather, globalization is ...
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    Title: Courts, Social Change and Judicial Independence  Author(s): DREYZIN DE KLOR, Adriana Silvia; POIARES PESSOA MADURO, Luis Miguel; VAUCHEZ, Antoine; VAUCHEZ, Antoine; MEGRET, Frédéric; KELEMEN, R. Daniel; ORTIZ AHLF, Loretta; RASK MADSEN, Mikael; STONE SWEET, Alec; LANE SCHEPPELE, Kim; KUMM, Mattias; POLLACK, Mark A.; SOLANKE, Iyiola Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The diversity and quality of the nine papers presented give an idea of both the broadness and richness of the seminar. Its great originality lies in the wide range of disciplinary and geographical views from which the topic ...
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    Title: Trade Roundtable  Author(s): MAVROIDIS, Petros C.; MAVROIDIS, Petros C.; ABBOTT, Roderick; CRAMÉR, Per; HOEKMAN, Bernard M.; MOREIRA, Vital Date: 2012 Type of Publication: Other Series/Report no.: EUI RSCAS PP Abstract: The Doha round has been stalling for over 10 years now. It might not be ‘dead and loving it’ but definitely in moribund condition. Worse, there is no sign of reviving it, in the near future at least. The most optimistic ...