WP4
Trade, Development and Migration
Addressing asymmetries requires a look beyond the existing WTO agenda to the variety of free trade, bilateral investment, commodity and migration agreements that have frequently made advances in regulating differences. The recent food crisis, the challenges of irregular migration, un-adopted labour standards, but also emerging bio-fuel, agro-biotech and commodity markets all illustrate that the WTO is not currently able to accommodate these differences. Regulatory solutions that go beyond enhanced market access and differential treatment to boost poorer countries’ export-led integration whilst reducing inequalities must be sought. This package will contribute to the re-conceptualisation of policy space for variable geometry through the drawing of regulatory lessons from other fora.
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4.1, topic I
The Enabling clause revisited
Is the General System of Preferences (GSP) a dead-end (...)
4.2, topic III
South-South Regional Trade Agreements in (...)
The ongoing formation of free trade areas in the (...)
4.3, topic I
References to domestic labour standards in (...)
Are trade agreements an effective way of avoiding (...)
4.4, topic II
Food Security, WTO and FDI in agriculture
In early 2008 world prices of major agricultural (...)
4.5, topic I
Tax breaks as trade policy tools
Tax reductions are relevant in terms of subsidies in (...)
4.6, topic III
Migration partnerships in multilayered (...)
The concept of ‘migration partnerships’ has (...)
4.7, topic III
Temporary labour mobility in bilateral (...)
France and Spain have pioneered for Europe a new (...)
4.8, topic III
France and Spain bilateral agreements on (...)
A programmatic element of contemporary migration (...)
4.9, topic III
Swiss migration and European mobility (...)
Like other countries in Europe, Switzerland too has (...)
