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The need for countries to facilitate trade and to reduce the
transactions costs plaguing trade is receiving a lot of interest in
policy circles, and in particular in the WTO, where trade
facilitation has been one of the few good stories in recent
multilateral negotiations. Is this interest justified? What have
economic theory and empirical findings to contribute to our
understanding of the value of free trade? This authoritative
two-volume set, edited by two leading scholars in the field, offers
a collection of seminal articles that have led our economic
thinking on these issues and encouraged a new and growing
literature. This important work, along with an original
introduction by the editors, will be of immense value to scholars
and practitioners interested in the topic of trade costs and
facilitation.
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Joshua (Paperback)
John S. Wilson
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R396
Discovery Miles 3 960
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Ships in 10 - 15 working days
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It was 1905 when the man destined to become Waco's photographer
first opened his shop.Fred Gildersleeve documented the city he
loved, establishing his legacy through iconic images that have
become Waco's visual memory. The 186 Gildersleeve images within
capture the spirit of early Waco. Born in 1880 in Boulder,
Colorado, Gildersleeve spent most of his childhood in Kirksville,
Missouri. Throughout his early years, Gildersleeve sold his
pictures for 25 cents apiece to pay for his education, working his
way through photography school in Effingham, Illinois before
launching his career in Waco. An adventurer, Gildersleeve was known
for speeding through town on an Excelsior motorbikeaand later in a
Model T Fordawith his assistant in the sidecar. He avidly took
pictures of everyday life in Waco, becoming the official
photographer for Baylor and the State Fair of Texas. From special
occasions to sporting events, from construction projects to key
figures, Gildersleeve documented Waco's growth as a thriving
industrial city during the early days of the twentieth century.
Gildersleeve's photos are not just history; they are art. He
pioneered panoramas and aerial shots using Waco as his subject.
Gildersleeve's photos are now known for their clarity and detail
that resemble and surpass modern-day digital photography. The
photos in this book take viewers back in time to their favorite
Waco landmarks and do so with timeless creativity.
3,822 perimeter miles. 11,247 rivers and streams. 8,749 feet at its
height. 268,596 square miles in total. Texas is big. Julius Caesar
once quipped that all of ancient Gaul could be divided up into
three parts. Texas resists such easy division. Mapping Texas,
edited by John S. Wilson, presents an array of early maps, dating
from 1561 to 1860. The volume features selections from the
extensive material housed in the Frances C. Poage Map Room of The
Texas Collection at Baylor University. The painstaking labors of
Spanish, French, English, and Mexican mapmakers illustrate the
progressive and differing views of Texas geography and boundaries.
Originally used as guides to new destinations, these maps also
staked new claims, fueled by new dreams, on new territory that
settlers had heard about but never seen. Page by page, Texas'
iconic shape gradually emerges. As now-familiar cities dot this
vast expanse of land, railroads trace the outline of rivers and
mountain ranges, and ports anchor the curve of the Gulf of Mexico,
Texas' rich history comes to life one map at a time. The volume
concludes with an analysis of map art and cartouches - beautiful
images that both name the map and highlight flora and fauna. A
sumptuous delight for mind and eye, this volume lavishly documents
the early outlines of the land over which six flags have proudly
flown.
In expanding trade, the link between standards, access to foreign
markets, and development is at the forefront of policy debate. This
is particularly true for African countries, which face critical
challenges in improving domestic capacity to meet production and
quality standards required in foreign markets. In case studies of
five African countries Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, South Africa,
and Uganda Standards and Global Trade demonstrates the importance
of addressing the impact of product standards both as barriers to
trade and as opportunities to expand market access. This book
provides a comprehensive and in-depth case-by-case assessment of
the current and anticipated use of international standards and
capacity for compliance. Each chapter details the economic context
in which standards apply to each country and examines the
mechanisms with which the country and its representatives have
participated in the process of setting/revising standards and
technical regulations at the local and international level. The
analysis includes a review of existing laws and regulations and the
extent to which they are consistent with current international
norms. Standards and Global Trade examines each country's physical
infrastructure and organizational capacities to design and
implement standards and technical regulations. The authors also
discuss and analyze the implementation processes and some estimated
impact of various standards, technical regulations, and related
production/marketing practices in about five specific industry
segments in each country."
This book provides an up-to-date discussion of economic issues
involved in analyzing regulations of product quality and
performance in international trade. Among the issues addressed in
this collection are restrictions on genetically modified foods and
pesticide use and compatibility standards for computers. While such
regulations may serve important goals, they may also interfere with
international trade flow by raising the costs of compliance. This
is of special concern to developing countries, which have found it
difficult to meet the increasingly exacting regulations imposed by
the United States and Europe.
Keith E. Maskus and John S. Wilson gather prominent international
trade specialists to ask whether the impacts of such regulations
may be quantified systematically in order to inform the
international policy debate. The essays included here cover all
fronts of the debate over regulatory issues and trade conflicts.
The discussion ranges from a review of how trade conflicts emerge
and how they are managed by the international trading system to a
technical analysis of the potential impact of European restraints
on trade in genetically modified products to an examination of
methods for estimating the costs of compliance with environmental
regulations. Considerable attention is paid to whether the
emergence and enforcement of stronger standards among developed
economies could result in diminished trade opportunities for
developing countries. At the same time, the possibility that
standards could expand market access through resolving consumer
information problems is analyzed.
This book will appeal to international economists, international
relations specialists, andindividuals concerned about appropriate
regulation of safety and health issues in the global economy.
Keith E. Maskus is Professor of Economics, University of Colorado,
Boulder. John S. Wilson is Lead Economist, Development Economics
Research Group, The World Bank.
Profinite groups are of interest to mathematicians working in a
variety of areas, including number theory, abstract groups, and
analysis. The underlying theory reflects these diverse influences,
with methods drawn from both algebra and topology and with
fascinating connections to field theory. This is the first book to
be dedicated solely to the study of general profinite groups. It
provides a thorough introduction to the subject, designed not only
to convey the basic facts but also to enable readers to enhance
their skills in manipulating profinite groups. The first few
chapters lay the foundations and explain the role of profinite
groups in number theory. Later chapters explore various aspects of
profinite groups in more detail; these contain accessible and lucid
accounts of many major theorems. Prerequisites are kept to a
minimum with the basic topological theory summarized in an
introductory chapter.
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