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Hittade 5 uppsatser innehållade orden spaghetti bowl.
1. Why Overlapping Regionalism? Drivers of Zambia’s dual memberships in COMESA and SADC: A pluralism of perceptions
Master-uppsats, Göteborgs universitet/Institutionen för globala studierSammanfattning : In contrast to current global trends, Africa seems more determined than ever to come together. But as African governments and political leaders recurrently cite regional integration as a top priority, their persistent commitment to multiple overlapping regional organizations (ROs) seems perplexing. LÄS MER
2. Overlapping Trade Agreements: Stepping Stones or Stumbling Blocks?
Master-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenSammanfattning : This paper analyzes the effect of overlapping Trade blocs on Trade Facilitation. Using the time, documents and costs incurred as trade facilitation indicators, simulations show interesting yet important effects of an increase in Regional Trade Agreements on trade costs. LÄS MER
3. Tangled up in a spaghetti bowl - trade effects of overlapping preferential trade agreements in Africa
Kandidat-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenSammanfattning : Overlapping trade agreements in Africa are often brought up as an obstacle to the trade effect of preferential integration and referred to as the spaghetti bowl. The problem has not been investigated empirically before although it is often discussed by observers of the African economy. LÄS MER
4. Bridging the Atlantic: A Trade Effect Assessment of Services Inclusion in a Canada-EU Trade Agreement
Magister-uppsats, Lunds universitet/Nationalekonomiska institutionenSammanfattning : The spaghetti bowl of regional trade agreements has been growing rapidly the past two decades. While services trade has often been excluded from these agreements, the recent trend suggests that a shift has occurred and that policy-makers are paying more attention to services trade. LÄS MER
5. A spaghetti bowl of preferences? : om preferentiella handelsavtals påverkan på WTO
Kandidat-uppsats, Institutionen för samhällsvetenskapSammanfattning : The aim of this thesis is to clarify the affect that preferential and regional trade agreements have on the World Trade Organization (WTO), as being establisher of the international trading regime. The essay is an explanatory literature study, which strives to answer the following questions: Are regional and preferential trade agreements a threat or a complement to the WTO? Is an undermining of the MFN principle weakening the WTO? How do regional trade agreements made by the EU affect the future of the WTO? The empirical material is to be analyzed using an explanatory framework, which is based on neo-liberal instutionalism, theories on regime changes and a game theoretical approach, using prisoner’s dilemma. LÄS MER