2017 Publications
BASC Staff Articles
Japan and the Leadership of the World Trading System
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director|
Abe Global, 2017
For several reasons, passage of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) would, on the whole, have been a good thing.
Power in international trade politics: is ISDS a solution in search of a problem?
|By Andrew Reddie – Deputy Director|
Business and Politics, 2017
This article examines the controversial investor-state dispute settlement (ISDS) mechanisms in recent mega-free trade agreement.
The Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership: Limits on Negotiating Behind the Border Barriers
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Simon Evenett|
Business and Politics, 2017
This special issue focuses on the difficulties of negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), with contributions by scholars from different perspectives.
Resisting Behind the Border Talks in TTIP: The Cases of GMOs and Data Privacy
|By Vinod Aggarwal – Director| Simon Evenett|
Business and Politics, 2017
Despite initial intentions to better align transatlantic regulation and associated practices in the negotiation of the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP), this was not possible for rules concerning genetically modified organisms and data privacy.
Affiliate Articles
Disrupting Development Finance: An Opportunity for the Asian Development Bank
|By C. Lawrence Greenwood, Jr.|
More than half a century ago, a Japanese finance official and a private-sector adviser, who had first helped run the Japanese war machine and then took lead roles in the U.S. occupation to transform Japan’s battered economy, drew up the blueprint of what was to become Asia’s premier development finance institution. After 50 years of […]
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