victim support

• The Case for Tariff Compensation in Wto Dispute Settlement

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 ...

... dispute (and possible retaliation) by the victims instead.25. But why have member states clearly fav..., 2001b) points out, domestic political support is regularly more sensitive to direct government a...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 60 Num. 4, Décembre 2005

• Message concernant la révision totale de la loi fédérale sur l'aide aux victimes (LAVI)

... s'adresser a pour conséquence de faire supporter davantage de charges aux cantons dotés de centres...

• Feuille Fédérale num. 51, 27 décembre 2005
• Seccion Unica

• Botschaft zur Totalrevision des Bundesgesetzes über die Hilfe an Opfer von Straftaten (Opferhilfegesetz, OHG)

...- «Le point de vue des victimes sur l'application de la LAVI», Prof. Robert Roth,... gemeinnützige Organisation «victim support», die über eine nationale Telefonlinie sowie...

• Bundesblatt num. 51, 27 décembre 2005
• Seccion Unica

• Messaggio sulla revisione totale della legge federale concernente l'aiuto alle vittime di reati (LAV)

...- «Le point de vue des victimes sur l'application de la LAVI», prof. Robert Roth,... beneficenza indipendente detto «victim support», dotato di una linea telefonica nazionale e di age...

• Foglio Federale num. 51, 27 décembre 2005
• Seccion Unica

• Barbara J. Merz, Lincoln C. Chen, and Peter F. Geithner, Editors (2007): Diasporas and Development

Diasporas and Development, edited by Barbara J Merz, Lincoln C Chen, and Peter F Geithner, is reviewed.

... what Cohen would have labelled victim, labour or trade diasporas (SHUVAL 2000, p. 43), n... states along a continuum reaching from supportive to restrictive. The quantitative dimensions of dia...

• Aussenwirtschaft; Zeitschrift für internationale Wirtshaftsbeziehungen
• Vol. 62 Num. 3, Septembre 2007

• The people have spoken: Swiss voters upheld the legalisation of heroin for long-term addicts in a November referendum, but rejected a proposal that would have decriminalised the use of marijuana. Reporter Tom Armitage presents the details surrounding this, and other prominent referendum package decisions.

...Just 37 per cent of Swiss voters voiced support for the cannabis legalisation plan, while a resoun... paedophiles could be tried only until the victim turned 33, did not go far enough. The government m...

• Swiss News
• Num. 2009, Janvier 2009

• The weight of intelligence: a Spanish soldier looking 'round the corner' with his Comfut gear.

... Optronics Video Visier (VV) was the main victim of the new modular philosophy. The VV was providin...-way conferencing on a single channel and supports air, sea and ground communications. The PNR-500, w...

• Armada International
• Vol. 34 Num. 2, Avril 2010

• Flattops back in fashion?

... planes that can be used for close air support. Anti-submarine coverage is provided by a compleme... projected 70,000-tonne vessel is as much a victim of timing as it is of the stagnant French economy,...

• Armada International
• Vol. 32 Num. 6, Décembre 2008

• Fighting an invisible threat: air warfare involves both visible and invisible battlefields and the latter becomes more demanding every year--having extended from combat aircraft to support aircraft and now down to the helicopters and even civil aviation.

... and transports, because many of these fall victim to man-portable missiles. These are easy to concea...

• Armada International
• Vol. 29 Num. 6, Décembre 2005

• Less is more in the world of DAS.

... with electronic warfare have vanished; victims of industrial consolidation. In the West, the main... computer, an integrated RF electronic support and countermeasures (ES/ECM) subsystem, a missile-...

• Armada International
• Vol. 30 Num. 2, Avril 2006