Search results for: “developed countries”
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Everything But Arms
Everything But Arms in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, everything but arms is: a European Union initiative for duty-free and quota- free access to all products except arms originating in least developed countries. The entries on trade policy are here. It took effect on 5 March 2001 for […]
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Staging
Staging in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, a definition of this issue is as follows: the introduction of tariff reductions or other trade-liberalizing measures according to a unilateral or an internationally-agreed timetable. For example, many developed countries phased in their Uruguay […]
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Sectoral Free-trade Area
Sectoral free-trade area in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, sectoral free-trade area is: a free-trade area or a customs union covering some traded sectors only. This option is only available to developing countries under the Enabling Clause. Developed countries may conduct sectoral […]
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Sectoral Free-trade Area
Sectoral free-trade area in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, sectoral free-trade area is: a free-trade area or a customs union covering some traded sectors only. This option is only available to developing countries under the Enabling Clause. Developed countries may conduct sectoral […]
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Vulnerability Index
Vulnerability index in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, vulnerability index is: a concept currently under discussion in United Nations forums to permit a more objective assessment of the needs of least developed countries and their eligibility for treatment as a least- developed country. […]
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Vulnerability Index
Vulnerability index in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, vulnerability index is: a concept currently under discussion in United Nations forums to permit a more objective assessment of the needs of least developed countries and their eligibility for treatment as a least- developed country. […]
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Reverse Transfer Of Technology
Reverse transfer of technology in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, reverse transfer of technology is: a term used particularly in the United Nations system to describe the flow of scientists and highly trained specialists from developing countries to developed countries. This is the so- […]
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Reverse Transfer Of Technology
Reverse transfer of technology in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, reverse transfer of technology is: a term used particularly in the United Nations system to describe the flow of scientists and highly trained specialists from developing countries to developed countries. This is the so- […]
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Fetish Of Industrialization
Fetish of industrialization in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, fetish of industrialization is: an expression used by Clair Wilcox in A Charter for World Trade (written in 1949) to describe what he calls an insistent demand in undeveloped countries that standards of living be improved, […]
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SNPA
SNPA in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, a definition of this issue is as follows: the Substantial New Programme of Action for the 1980s for the Least Developed Countries. The entries on trade policy are here. Adopted in Paris on 14 September 1981 by the United Nations Conference for the […]
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Advisory Centre On WTO Law
Advisory Centre on WTO Law in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, advisory centre on wto law is: established on 17 July 2001 in Geneva as an independent intergovernmental organization with funding from nine developed countries and more than 25 developing countries and economies in […]
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Investment Policy Review
Investment Policy Review in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, investment policy review is: IPR. The entries on trade policy are here. An UNCTAD program to assist least developed countries in improving their potential to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and to identify their […]
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Investment Policy Review
Investment Policy Review in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, investment policy review is: IPR. The entries on trade policy are here. An UNCTAD program to assist least developed countries in improving their potential to attract foreign direct investment (FDI) and to identify their […]
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Brussels Declaration
Brussels Declaration in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, a definition of this issue is as follows: the statement resulting from the Third United Nations Conference on the Least Developed Countries, held in Brussels from 14 to 20 May 2001. The entries on trade policy are here. Among other […]
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Race-to-the-bottom Argument
Race-to-the-bottom argument in Global Commerce Policy In this regard, race-to-the-bottom argument is: expresses the fear that the need to compete with imports from countries with low labour costs and lower labour standards will reduce wages and labour conditions in the developed countries. […]