Trade preferences that do not deny market access

NRO's Andrew Stiles reports that Sen. Jeff Sessions (R-AL) has decided to vocally champion the much-needed reform of America's embarrassing corporate tax system:

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Andreas Kuhn, Jean-Philippe Wuellrich, Josef Zweimüller , 25 March 2012While the retirement age in most developed countries is going up, this column looks at what happens when it goes down. In some countries, those who work in physically demanding jobs are demanding the right to retire earlier. This column finds that people should be careful what they wish for.Full Article: Fatal attraction? Access to early retirement and mortality

Portugal Telecom (PT) Q4 2010 Earnings Call February 24, 2011 11:00 AM ET Executives Zeinal Bava – CEO Luis Pacheco de Melo – CFO Analysts Georgios Ierodiaconou – Citi Jonathan (ph) – Barclays Tim Boddy – Goldman Sachs Mathieu Robilliard – BNP Paribas Roshan Ranjit – Nomura Presentation

Ivan Cherkashin, Svetlana Demidova, Hiau Looi Kee, Kala Krishna, 19 February 2011Trade preferences, such as those removing restrictions on Madagascar’s exports to the US, have long been a controversial policy. Some argue that it removes incentives for firms to become more competitive as they simply divert their trade to the preferred market.

Bernard Hoekman, 19 June 2010A key objective of the WTO Doha Round was to address the concerns of developing countries. This column argues that, despite the lack of progress on the core market access agenda, much has been achieved in terms of market access and trade facilitation since 2001. Full Article: Doha and development: Market access, trade costs and aid for trade