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There is nearly unanimous consent among WTO practitioners and scholars that the remedy of tariff compensation is legally superior, economically more efficient and socially more beneficial than retaliatory suspension of tariff concessions (tariff retaliation). This article argues in favour of a revitalization of tariff compensation. However, under the current regime compensation is a thoroughly unattractive policy instrument for decision makers having to temporarily opt out of a WTO Agreement in reaction to domestic shocks. Hence, tariff compensation is vastly underused. We examine reasons for the relative unattractiveness of this policy instrument and propose a substantial reform agenda of the WTO agreements and the dispute settlement system, so as to make compensation a policy tool of ...
... commencement of the breach and the adoption of the panel report. If they did, we would call th...22.3 DSU grants.27. In sum, counter to the oft-cited claim that th...
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...The distributor then grants a discount on the Swiss public recommended price t... parliamentary initiative resulted in the adoption, on March 18 2011, of the Federal Act regulating b...
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In recent decades a broad range of non-state actors ranging from multinational firms to non-governmental organizations have become key players in development finance alongside more traditional players such as official aid agencies and multilateral institutions. More recently they have been joined by a host of interested parties including social entrepreneurs, former politicians and celebrities, who have used their profile to raise awareness and leverage resources for international aid in developing countries. It was in the 1990s that the development-driven public-private partnership (PPP) modality gained traction and has since become the preferred instrument of development policy-makers in fields such as global health and, more recently, agriculture. The popularity and perceived utility...
...This trend has led to an adoption of "business-like" social practices within the dev...Rather than relying exclusively on direct grants, it seeks out entrepreneurs in marginalized commun...
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..., l'amélioration de l'efficacité ou l'adoption de bonnes pratiques («best practice»). . - Règl...) et les aides à l'investissement («grants»). Les premiers ont été consacrés aux secteurs d...
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... et le 4e rang pour le nombre d'Advanced Grants alloués par le Conseil européen de la recherche.... si ce montant sera rétabli lors de l'adoption du budget 2012, ou éventuellement crédité inté...
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... membres de l'OCDE a fait échec à l'adoption d'une recommandation de l'OCDE sur l'instauration ... ont demandé l'introduction de dons («grants») pour remplacer les crédits. La majorité des pay...
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...Elle devait par ailleurs aboutir à l'adoption d'une déclaration politique et d'un programme d'a... sous forme d'aides non remboursables (grants);. - à renforcer la fonction de coordinateur assu...