Challenges and risks before see trade liberalization
Author(s) -
Martin K. Dimitrov
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
economic annals
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.148
H-Index - 12
eISSN - 1820-7375
pISSN - 0013-3264
DOI - 10.2298/eka0356101d
Subject(s) - liberalization , memorandum , free trade , memorandum of understanding , merge (version control) , international economics , limiting , international trade , economics , political science , law , engineering , computer science , market economy , mechanical engineering , information retrieval
Potential risks regarding the Memorandum: 1 The Memorandum lacks simplicity and standardization. One option for the agreement was to merge in one standard text for all countries, which did not actually happen. 2 Postponed liberalization of several sectors compared to others. This discriminatory progressive liberalization has several negative effects. These tailor-made schedules may remove the immediate problems of pressure groups asking the government to be the last one liberalized, but they can impose high pressure later. As the products, which are liberalized late, E co n om ic A n n al s n o 15 6, J an u ar y 20 03 M ar ch 2 00 3 101 Martin Dimitrov*
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