Global Cooperation or Rival Trade Blocs?

Preferential trade agreements as building or stumbling blocs? The importance of commitment

Will continual expansion of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) lead to global free trade? In the presence of multilateral negotiations, are PTAs necessary for, or will they necessarily lead away from, global free trade? This paper shows both answers depend crucially on a commitment problem faced by PTA members. Because the commitment problem revolves around a desire to commit to not form futu...

Gravity Model: An Application to Trade between Iran and Regional Blocs

Global Trade Union Program International Trade Union Cooperation Core Labour Standards and International Organizations: What Inroads Has Labour Made?

Over its almost ninety years of existence, the International Labour Organization (ILO) has adopted 188 conventions that defi ne international labour standards in a wide variety of areas, such as limits on working time, occupational heath and safety standards, employment policy, and basic working conditions for specifi c categories of workers. For ILO conventions to have legal status and be enfo...

factors affecting bilateral trade between iran and regional blocs

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SNM and global cooperation.