International trade and commerce

Located within the plantation economy model of the "e;New World Group"e; of The University of the West Indies, this book explores how the changes in the European Union's sugar regime impacted a sugar-dependent community in Jamaica.

Are Africa's world markets really contributing to development across the continent for individuals, nations and regions?

Written by leading experts in the field, this collection offers a critical and comparative analysis of the existing case law on international investment law.

Early twentieth-century Iran had been dominated by the competing influences of the two great imperial powers of the time - Russia and Britain - making it difficult for a third power to establish a foothold.

Charts the development of merchant communities in Sind and their interaction with the global economy.

This critical analysis of contractual escape and punishment in the WTO proposes a politically realistic and systemically viable reform agenda.

This Element studies the attempts to estimate cross-country quality variations.

The book contributes to the growing literature pertaining to empirical and policy issues in international trade, foreign capital flows and issues in finance, implications for India and emerging economies related to trade and development interface, and analysis of sector level growth and development in India.

The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases for 2015.

Margaret Young outlines how efforts to avert the global fisheries crisis necessitate a new understanding of international law.

From a Western point of view, the policy of economic engagement with China has failed.

The first full examination of the ''protectionist turn'' of French liberalism in the early stages of nineteenth-century globalisation.

An in-depth look at two decades of a movement that aims to challenge the ethical foundations of the global market.

Explores the ''unexhausted'' potential in current investor-state dispute settlement mechanisms to advance investors'' responsibility for their conduct.

Protectionism has been placed under the media spotlight, with news headlines generated by populist anti-globalization movements and Donald Trump's term as US President.

This book discusses the issues of integration within food and fibre supply chains and the challenges in managing price risk.

This volume brings together many of the leading international figures in development studies, such as Jose Antonio Ocampo, Paul Krugman, Dani Rodrik, Joseph Stiglitz, Daniel Cohen, Olivier Blanchard, Deepak Nayyar and John Williamson to reconsider and propose alternative development policies to the Washington Consensus.

Providing the first comprehensive examination of the key regulatory disciplines included in the new generation of EU free trade agreements (FTAs), this book investigates the EU's supposed deep trade agenda through a legal analysis of these FTAs.

With billions of dollars generated annually, importing and exporting is a potentially lucrative arena for growthand a bewildering tangle of rules and regulations.

The authorized, paginated WTO Dispute Settlement Reports in English: cases for 2019.

Foreign investors have a privileged position under investment treaties.

In a time of persistent uncertainty, fragile eco-structures, the politics of "e;populism,"e; and limits in institutional leadership, The Caribbean on the Edge acts as an analytical roadmap to a challenging era of globalization for the countries on the edge of history in the Caribbean, those often at a policy standstill pondering which way and how to turn.

This volume provides comprehensive chapter-by-chapter assessment of one of the world''s most important regional trade agreements, the TPP/CPTPP.

As a top 20 global economy and tech powerhouse, a liberal democracy on the frontline of autocratic pressure and a pivotal component in the free and open Indo-Pacific, the future security of Taiwan has enormous ramifications for today's global order.

International economic law, with its traditional focus on large multinational enterprises, is only slowly waking up to the new reality of small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), entering the global marketplace.

In The First American Frontier, Wilma Dunaway challenges many assumptions about the development of preindustrial Southern Appalachia's society and economy.

In "Geschäftserfolg in Japan: Ihr Wegweiser für das Geschäftsleben im modernen Japan" führt Sie Naoko Ito, eine erfahrene Geschäftsfrau aus Tokio, durch die facettenreiche Welt des japanischen Geschäftsumfelds.

This book examines the development of world trade during the COVID-19 pandemic, also taking international trade between the Czech Republic and the Russian Federation into account as a case study.

Examining the slave trade between Angola and Brazil, Roquinaldo Ferreira focuses on the cultural ties between the two countries.

This ready reference surveys the discipline of standards and standardization, defining common terms, clarifying descriptions, describing how standards could be used to restrain trade, and explaining how international trade is stimulated by the due process provisions of standards writing organizations.

This work responds to the increasing need in many countries to better understand linkages between intellectual property, trade rules, and economic and social development, and to find new ways of implementing intellectual property rules and optimizing their effects.

Trade is the lifeblood of the global economy, but few would consider it a social good.

The Yearbook on International Investment Law & Policy is an annual publication which provides a comprehensive overview of current developments in the international investment law and policy field, focusing on recent trends and issues in foreign direct investment (FDI), investment treaty practice, and investor-state arbitration.

This book aims to explore the development model of Great Bay Area (GBA) of China as economic engine under the context of open policy.

Bilateral Investment Treaties: History, Policy, and Interpretation organizes, summarizes and comments upon the arbitral awards interpreting and applying BIT provisions.

From the workings of financial markets to our response to the ecological crisis, economic theory shapes the world.

Casting a broad net across several disciplines, particularly geography and political economy, Donald Freeman examines the significance of the Straits as both a trade gateway and a choke-point that has forced generations of sailors to "e;run the gauntlet.

This book delves into the intriguing paradox of China's position in international trade law.

In 2005 the WTO Appellate body ruled that the United States' total prohibition on cross border gambling services was unlawful under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS).

These papers provide a cutting-edge overview of general issues regarding world capital markets, experience in developing countries, and capital market regulation, which many economists believe could turn into the number one topic in international business and economics.