a government economic policy of restricting the level of imports by using measures such as tariffs and NTBs in order to protect a country's domestic...
WASHINGTON -- U.S. Chamber of Commerce 1:16 P.M. EDT THE VICE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Thank you all very much. A welcome like that is almost enough to make me want to run for office again. [Laughter.] Almost. Almost. But it's a pleasure as always to have a chance...
Protectionism hampers the reform of Europe's postal services THE romantic image of the trusty postman, delivering letters to the farthest-flung corners of the land, makes the reform of postal services a sensitive subject. This is especially true when the impetus for reform comes from...
Yet More Marketing Idiocy.People in Glass Houses...Dear Reviewer, Just wanted you to know that I read your article and agree, we need to make changes to our webpage. In fact, you should know that we are in the process of creating a brand new, user-friendly website for journalists...
Bauer has been a consistent and cogent defender of the role of the market economy in bringing about economic development. No one has done more in clarifying the reach of Adam Smith's thesis regarding the creative contributions of exchange. -Amartya Sen1 A pioneer in development economics At a time when...
Recent years have witnessed escalating criticism of the industrialized word for declining levels of foreign aid, especially the official development assistance ODA that is expressly supposed to facilitate prosperity in the developing world. Criticism of the alleged foreign-aid shortfall is striking because critics fail to ask a more profound question:...
Poor countries could boost growth and reduce poverty by expanding exports to the rich countries and to each other. But, despite the progress made in trade liberalization under successive multilateral agreements, many barriers persist in both developing and industrial countries. LIVING standards in Korea, only 50 years ago...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Protectionism and subsidies by industrialized nations cost developing countries about US$24 billion annually in lost agricultural and agro-industrial income, according to a study released today by the International FWASHINGTON, Aug. 26 /U.S. Newswire/ -- Protectionism and subsidies by industrialized nations cost developing countries about...
WASHINGTON -- Here is how area members of Congress were recorded on major roll call votes in the week ending March 19. HOUSESTEEL -- Voting 289 for and 141 against, the House passed a bill (HR 975) limiting steel imports into the United States so that they account...
M2 PRESSWIRE-22 October 1998-THE WHITE HOUSE: Office of the Press Secretary -- Press briefing by Deputy U.S. Trade Representative Richard Fisher C1994-98 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:211098 1:10 P.M. EDT * The Briefing Room MS. WEISS: Good afternoon. Today, we...
At the end of a bad day at work, you get a parking ticket from a traffic warden in north London. You remonstrate. "I've put it in my computer," says the warden, smugly. "You'll have to ring that number on the ticket." It is a freephone number, so you ring...
"The reasonable man adapts himself to the world; the unreasonable one persists in trying to adapt the world to himself. Therefore, all progress depends on the unreasonable man." George Bernard Shaw was probably not imagining the Federal Reserve Bank, but his musing is loose enough to encompass that institution and...
IN THE main, the new theories broaden the old exceptions, to the point where the benefits to be gained from an interventionist trade policy might be worth the costs. The essential ingredient is the idea of imperfect competition. Many categories of trade, the argument goes, are ...
Industrial Nations to Intensify Policy Coordination Efforts The finance ministers and central bank governors of Canada, France, West Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States (represented by Secretary of the Treasury James A. Baker III and chairman of the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve...
HIS DARKEST HOUR? UNDERESTIMATING Ronald Reagan is a thriving cottage industry along the shores of the Potomac. Periodically, pundits converge to pronounce the end of the Reagan Administration. Veteran Reagan-watcher Lou Cannon did it first, concluding his 1982 book, Reagan, with the bold statement that, although Ronald...
Byline: Frederick P. Gabriel Jr. Talk about someone who woke up on the wrong side of the bed Friday morning. In an early-morning speech, Alan Greenspan, the Federal Reserve Board chairman, warned that trade protectionism and...
AsiaInfo Services 05-14-2002 China Appeals for Exchange Stability and Fight Against Protectionism SHANGHAI, May 14, 2002 AsiaPort via COMTEX -- Jin Liqun, vice Minister of Ministry of Finance, expressed recently at the 35th Asian Development AsiaInfo Services ...
Introduction Neoliberal reforms are often assumed to have significantly affected public opinion towards the social rights of citizenship, as reflected in attitudes towards economic protectionism and the welfare state. This is because the transformation of Keynesian-welfarist institutions during the 1980s and 1990s is said to have fundamentally challenged...
There is no point, or question of retirement The Dalai Lama, the spiritual leader of the Tibetans, quashing suggestions that he was ready to retire from active political engagement I don't see this as a gamble, I see this as necessary, responsible action, that...
LIMA, Peru -- President George W. Bush snared fresh international support Saturday on the economy and North Korea, emerging from his final world gathering with modest wins and growing nostalgia about his turbulent tenure. Dogged by a collapsing economy late in his presidency, Bush came away with...
LIMA, Peru -- President Bush snared fresh international support Saturday on the economy and North Korea, emerging from his final world gathering with modest wins and growing nostalgia about his turbulent tenure. Dogged by a collapsing economy late in his presidency, Bush came away with the commitment...
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