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- A Case Study: Why 'Buy American' Will Make You Poorer
- Trade barriers didn't exactly cause the Great Depression, but they probably helped prolong it. Here's a lesson from history on why you want free trade, even if you think you don't. ...
- Articles 2009-04-15
- How to Make the Financial Crisis Worse
- Trade barriers. "Buy American" rules. Anti-immigrant hysteria. The protectionist fever that helped make the Depression Great shows sign of reemerging here and now. Do bad times bring out countries' inner protectionists? Yes, and there are alarming signs that it could be happening again. "This has happened in the past,"...
- Articles 2009-04-15
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- Import-Reducing Effect of Trade Barriers: A Cross-Country Investigation
- A comprehension empirical investigation is carried out to ascertain the import-reducing effect of trade protection barriers. This paper first presents a statistical summary of the status of global trade protection. Then, based on a monopolistic competition trade model and 1994 cross-country data on trade on trade barriers, trade flows and...
- White papers 2001-12-01
- Talks to cut trade barriers on services.(Global talks to cut trade barriers on services are in jeopardy)(Brief Article)
- Global talks to cut trade barriers on services are in jeopardy. World Trade Organization negotiations are bogged down by ag trade tiffs. Services, a second-tier priority, may drop off the WTO's agenda entirely. Global talks to cut trade barriers on services are in jeopardy....
- Research articles 2003-02-07
- World Bank chief says trade barriers indefensible
- NEW YORK, United States AFP — Farm trade barriers are obstables to development in poor countries and are indefensible, World Bank chief Paul Wolfowitz says. "Let's put it simply," Wolfowitz told a National Foreign Trade Council dinner, farm trade barriers are "harmful and indefensible." Wolfowitz spoke a week...
- Research articles 2005-12-03
- ADOPTING INTERNATIONAL STANDARDS TO ELIMINATE TRADE BARRIERS
- AsiaInfo Services 12-07-2001 Adopting International Standards to Eliminate Trade Barriers CHINA, Dec 07, 2001 AsiaPort via COMTEX -- On the conference of National Machinery Industrial Standardization, Zhang Xiaoyu, the Vice-President of Machi AsiaInfo Services 12-07-2001 ...
- Research articles 2001-12-07
- WORLD BANK ASKS SOUTH ASIAN STATES TO LOWER TRADE BARRIERS.
- ISLAMABAD, Sept 26 Asia Pulse - The World Bank has asked the South Asian countries to undertake the third phase of reforms to further lower their trade barriers, which are extremely high in India and Bangladesh. ISLAMABAD, Sept 26 Asia Pulse - The World...
- Research articles 2003-09-26
- Developing countries could see fastest growth in over a decade but are hurt by trade barriers in rich nations; Improvements in health, school enrollments, and illiteracy rates increase growth prospects.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-6 December 2000-WORLD BANK: Developing countries could see fastest growth in over a decade but are hurt by trade barriers in rich nations; Improvements in health, school enrollments, and illiteracy rates increase growth prospects C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05122000 ...
- Research articles 2000-12-06
- Shame list may fall on deaf ears : The US government is again fighting foreign telecom trade barriers, but is the world listening?
- Early last month, the US Trade Department issued its annual "shame list" of international telecom markets that have allegedly failed to adequately open up their markets to US carrier competition. The list cited competitive trade barriers in nine countries, specifically setting deadlines for some to change their ways or face...
- Research articles 2000-05-01
- Business And Government Leaders Discuss Ways To Eliminate Trade Barriers To Expand International Trade & Global Prosperity
- HOUSTON--BUSINESS WIRE--Oct. 15, 1998-- "Executive Dialogue" Marks Start of 62nd Annual IEC General Meeting in Houston Representatives of world trade organizations, industry, government, standards organizations and other stakeholders participated in an "Executive Dialogue" yesterday to discuss ways to eliminate international trade barriers, help expand...
- Research articles 1998-10-15
- Hu calls for fewer trade barriers
- EVERETT, Wash. -- Chinese President Hu Jintao called Wednesday for fewer trade barriers and closer ties between his country and the United States, while defending China's heavily criticized policies on trade, currency and energy. The meaty speech followed a warm welcome at Boeing Co., where Hu sought to...
- Research articles 2006-04-20
- World Bank urges rich countries to cut trade barriers, boost aid; Developing country reforms also crucial to poverty reduction.
- M2 PRESSWIRE-26 May 2003-WORLD BANK: World Bank urges rich countries to cut trade barriers, boost aid; Developing country reforms also crucial to poverty reductionC1994-2003 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:05222003 Bangalore, India - Rich countries should back their pledges to help reduce global...
- Research articles 2003-05-26
- US report cites broad range of trade barriers
- WASHINGTON AFP ? The United States voiced concern over a range of global trade obstacles, from restrictions on beef to subsidies for Airbus to China's effort to impose a new wireless chip standard. The 500-plus page Report on Foreign Trade Barriers covered a laundry list of issues with 58...
- Research articles 2004-04-01
- Impact on workers of reduced trade barriers: the case of Tunisia and Morocco.
- In 1995 Tunisia and Morocco committed themselves to a 12-year time-frame for dismantling their trade barriers against manufactured imports from the European Union - a step towards constructing a Euro-Mediterranean Economic Area. Drawing on existing research, trade theory and empirical evidence, Boughzala presents a stylized model to explore the likely...
- Research articles 1997-09-22
- GATT could raise revenues and boost economy by billions - Congress' inability to see the advantages gained by US economy from reduction in global trade barriers - Column
- Taking nearly a decade to negotiate the new worldwide General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade will reduce or eliminate thousands of trade barriers that currently block exports of U.S. goods and services to more than 100 countries. Although the United States must also reduce its own tariffs -- thereby forgoing...
- Research articles 1994-08-01
- Cut trade barriers, World Bank urges
- WASHINGTON -- Global poverty can be cut in half by 2015 if rich countries lower trade barriers and increase foreign aid, the World Bank said Sunday. Poor countries can help themselves by investing more in health and education, the bank said. But a new bank report...
- Research articles 2003-04-14
- Efforts to Spur Exports in Thailand Target Potential Markets, Trade Barriers.
- Bangkok Post, Thailand Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Aug. 20--A renewed effort to spur exports will focus on relatively untapped markets with large populations, while attempting to counter the rise of non-tariff trade barriers, according to Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra. ...
- Research articles 2002-08-20
- European Union Retaliatory Trade Barriers Go Up.
- By Jeffrey Sparshott, The Washington Times Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News May 1--Northland Forest Products was selling as much as $100,000 worth of lumber to Europe each month in 2003 and early this year. But on March 1, the European Union put up...
- Research articles 2004-05-01
- Analyst Says Trade Barriers Must Fall if Washington Farmers to Benefit.(Originated from The Spokesman-Review, Spokane, Wash.)
- Dec. 9--As Third World countries become richer and the global appetite swells, so will the demand for food. That should be good news for Washington state farmers. But trade barriers and outright bans, such as China's on...
- Research articles 1997-12-09
- Free Trade, Free Markets: Rating The 107th Congress
- Despite all the hype about globalization and the supposed universal triumph of free-market policies, governments around the world, including that of the United States, continue to intervene in the flow of goods, services, people, and capital across international borders. That widespread intervention takes two basic forms: barriers that discourage trade...
- White papers 2003-01-30
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