Trade liberalization, deindustrialization, and inequality : evidence from middle-income Latin American countries
Deindustrialization ; Economic geography ; Latin America ; Liberalisation ; Reform ; Social class ; Social geography ; Social inequality ; Trade ; Wage inequality
This article explores the relationship among trade liberalization, deindustrialization, and income inequality in the more industrially advanced Latin American countries. It argues that, among the most important liberal reforms implemented during
the 1980s and 1990s, trade reform was especially detrimental to equality because it accelerated deindustrialization. The analysis provides evidence to support this mechanism. Therefore, as the liberalization of trade increased, the deindustrialization
Russia’s WTO accession and trade in services : an examination into Russia–EU relationships
Direct investment ; European Union ; Foreign investment ; International trade ; Liberalisation ; Producer services ; Russia ; Trade agreement
This article presents the results on evolution of Russian international transactions in services in the light of its imminent accession to the World Trade Organization. Focusing on exports and imports and on foreign direct investment, the authors
Cut Loose in the Caribbean: Neoliberalism and the Demise of the Commonwealth Sugar Trade
Agriculture ; Barbados ; Caribbean ; Commonwealth ; Comparative study ; Economic Partnership Agreement ; European Union ; Neo liberalism ; Partnership ; Reform ; Regional economy ; Rural development ; Sugar industry ; Trade agreement ; Trinidad
and Tobago ; international trade ; neoliberalism ; sugar
contemporaine et en appellent à des stratégies alternatives pour le développement rural dans la région des Caraïbes.#This article focuses on the way the Anglophone Caribbean succumbed to the overhaul of the European Union sugar trade and how these countries have
attempted to restructure their economies in its wake. We show how the protagonists of reform gave a sense of inevitability to the demise of the Commonwealth trade system and conveyed (unrealistic) strategies for how this should be managed for the benefit
of the Caribbean. In this way we detail the hegemony of neoliberalism in contemporary trade politics and the need for alternative strategies for rural development in the Caribbean region.
Agglomeration ; Export ; Exporting industry ; Firm ; International trade ; Russia
to a destination barrier. To account for this fact, the AA. build on a monopolistic competition model of trade by postulating an externality in the international transaction of goods. Export policy that considers current trade partners may be more effective than
Justice for all ? Material and semiotic impacts of Fair Trade craft certification
Alternative economy ; Andes ; Certification ; Ecuador ; Fair trade ; Handicrafts ; Label ; Latin America ; Moral economy ; Network
with a craftswomen's cooperative in the Ecuadorian Andes, it argues that the material practice impedes artisan's attempts to join the formal Fair trade network, while the semiotic practice limits the ability to lift the veil of the commodity fetish, one of the central
In this article, we look at the people who made Dhaka’s food system resilient enough to avoid catastrophe. We discuss three relevant actor groups – food traders in wholesale markets, street food vendors, and poor consumers – and investigate
Consumer behaviour ; Czech Republic ; Geography of trade ; Prague ; Shopping centre ; Town ; Trade ; Urban geography
The impact of shopping centres on trade and shoppers in Prague was examined in details. The AA. aimed to describe the evaluation and the changes in buying habits in the city. They gave a brief historical review of the opening of the centres
This study highlights the role of African intermediaries in the city of Guangzhou, who work as negotiators within the Sino-African trade system. A qualitative network approach was used to investigate the intermediaries’ business practices
Solidarity : student activism, affective labor, and the Fair Trade Campaign in the United States
Activism ; Commodification ; Consumer behaviour ; Consumption ; Empowerment ; Ethics ; Fair trade ; Retail trade ; Social geography ; Students ; United States of America
Mainstreaming environment and development at the World Trade Organization? Fisheries subsidies, the politics of rule-making, and the elusive ‘triple win’
Developed countries ; Developing countries ; Fishing ; Fishing resources ; Governance ; Grant ; International organization ; International trade ; Liberalisation ; Trade agreement
Centre communautaire ; Culturel ; Débat public ; Esthétique ; Etats-Unis ; Islam ; Islamophobie ; New York City ; New York State ; Politique urbaine ; Projet ; Terrorisme ; World Trade Center
This paper uses Jacques Rancière's conception of the partition of the sensible to interrogate the aesthetic regimes and spatial coordinates that animated public debate about Park 51—the Islamic community center near the World Trade Center site
color categories in contrast to the rigid binary racial categories (i.e., black–white) traditionally used in the United States. In Brazil, racialized relations have traditionally remained cordial, giving life to the so-called myth of racial democracy
Burma ; Frontier ; Historical geography ; Nineteenth Century ; Political geography ; Power ; Territory ; Thailand ; Trade ; War
to display their power over their northern frontier and expand their territory, at the expense of the Burmese and the British, to control the trade on the upper valley of the Mekong. - GL)
This paper reviews the progress of carbon trading in China and examines the involvement of the state and financial sectors. The results show a hierarchical relationship between the state and finance and a clear asymmetry of power in the organization
of China’s carbon markets. It concludes that China has put the market-based policy instrument of carbon trading under a substantial concentration of state power. Also, the findings have important implications for understanding the rise of carbon markets