Trade Liberalisation Policies, Intra-regional Trade and Opportunities for Sustainable Agricultural Development

ECO and Regional Trade

Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), based on regional and multicultural cooperation, has focused on the improvement of living standards, collective as well as individual prosperity of people and economic development of member’s states. Since February 1992 ECO has been expanded to ten as the result of collapse of the Soviet Union. Of course, gas and oil are very important factors in this re...

Trade liberalisation and regional integration: the search for large numbers

We surveyed the empirical literature using multi-country computable general equilibrium (CGE) models to analyse potential and actual regional trade agreements (RTAs). The studies indicate that these RTAs improve welfare, that trade creation greatly exceeds trade diversion, and that they are consistent with further global liberalisation. The welfare gains are bigger when models incorporate aspec...

Trade and Sustainable Development

Contents 1. Introduction 2. Challenges of sustainability even under maximum cooperation 3. Erosion of social development policy in the rich countries and consequent distress 4. Guidance given by the Earth Summit and its rejection by the rich 5. Asymmetries and systemic biases in the trading system against weaker members 6. Rich country civil societies attack and undermine international intergov...

Trade Liberalisation and Tuberculosis

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TRADE LIBERALISATION Lecture Notes