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- A free trade arrangement of one country two systems, BUSINESS TIMES
- Business Times Malaysia 12-03-2001 THE success in Doha, Qatar, last month has not stopped countries from pursuing regional and bilateral trading arrangements. Singapore, for example, which is currently negotiating a bilateral trade agreement w Business Times Malaysia 12-03-2001...
- Research articles 2001-12-03
- Congress approves Singapore and Chile Free Trade Agreements
- In his June 30th article, "Trading Away Jobs and Liberty," this magazine's William F. Jasper warned that the Singapore and Chile Free Trade Agreements FTAs are only the first in a series of FTAs being negotiated by the Bush administration. Next in the pipeline are bilateral FTAs with Morocco and...
- Research articles 2003-08-25
- Lee: Emulate Singapore in forging FTAs, BUSINESS TIMES
- Business Times Malaysia 09-06-2001 SINGAPORE Senior Minister Lee Kuan Yew has urged Association of South- East Asian Nations Asian member countries to consider emulating the island's step in forging free trade agreements FTA with other co Business Times Malaysia ...
- Research articles 2001-09-06
- Free-Trade Agreements: Steppingstones to a More Open World
- Since securing trade promotion authority in 2002, the Bush administration has launched an aggressive campaign to negotiate bilateral and regional free trade agreements FTAs. Free-trade agreements deviate from the multilateral principle of nondiscrimination, and they can divert trade from more efficient to less efficient but favored import producers. This paper...
- White papers 2003-07-10
- Free Trade Areas and Rules of Origin: Economics and Politics
- Incorporating intermediate inputs into a small-union general-equilibrium model, this paper first develops the welfare economics of preferential trading under the rules of origin ROO and then demonstrates that the ROO could improve the political viability of Free Trade Agreements FTAs. Two interesting outcomes are derived in this article. First, a...
- White papers 2003-11-01
- Bilateral "WTO-Plus" Free Trade Agreements: The WTO Trade Policy Review of Singapore 2004
- The World Trade Organization's 2004 Trade Policy Review depicts the small and outward-oriented economy as one of the most open country to international trade and investment. The review highlights the benefits of the outward-oriented strategy that has enabled the economy to weather recent external shocks such as the Asian financial...
- White papers 2005-04-05
- How Confident Can We Be in CGE-Based Assessments of Free Trade Agreements?
- Computable General Equilibrium models, widely used for the analysis of Free Trade Agreements FTAs are often criticized for having poor econometric foundations. This paper improves the linkage between econometric estimates of key parameters and their usage in CGE analysis in order to better evaluate the likely outcome of a Free...
- White papers 2004-03-01
- On the Economic Determinants of Free Trade Agreements
- The purpose of this study is to provide the first systematic empirical analysis of the economic determinants of the formation of free trade agreements FTAs and of the likelihood of FTAs between pairs of countries using a qualitative choice model. It develops this econometric model based upon a general equilibrium...
- White papers 2002-01-01
- Free trade debate heats up in Washington.(debate on free trade in recent House and Senate trade policy hearings )(Conference news)
- Byline: Mike Verespej The chilly reception U.S. trade representative Susan Schwab received in House and Senate trade policy hearings indicates a growing contention over the president's authority to negotiate free trade agreements. "We need Byline: Mike Verespej ...
- Research articles 2007-02-19
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