Introduction: Over the past fifteen years, there has been a dramatic rise in the number and range of regional or preferential trade agreements (PTAs). 1 There is evidence to suggest that market driven regional trading blocs are emerging in the European neighbourhood, the Americas and East Asia. The US is actively pursuing FTA in the Americas and East and South-East Asia. The European Union (EU)...

This paper examines various implications of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs), namely Customs Unions (CUs) and Free Trade Areas (FTAs), in the context of a multi-country general equilibrium model based on comparative advantage considerations. We calibrate the model to represent countries with symmetric endowments, and compare the impact of those agreements with free trade and a non-cooperati...

ai)(j f?rce in shaping public opinion lhat 'l ^Uencing government action so t0 before considering their attitude ?ntal health there is some advanorta ̂ re.caUing a few facts about their Tran Sati?n in this country. At the ^Und '~frL^on Congress of 1962, one w** and eighty two trade unions shir. rfPresented with a total memberarp ? 8,312,875. Not all trade unions unio 'ated to TUC but the total a...

The place of trade unions in socio-economic system decides about more pluralistic or corporatistic „face” of democratic institutions. Description of industrial relations is a valuable indication in research of factors stabilising the young Polish democratic system. Achieved analysis of trade unions role in West European democracy will facilitate me to accomplish the diagnosis of the trade union...