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Volume Four of The GATT Uruguay Round: A Negotiating History (1986-1994) deals with the final sessions of the world's most ambitious trade negotiations to date and its most significant accomplishment - the creation of the World Trade Organization. It includes the negotiating history of important modifications made during the end-game in 1993 and before the signing ceremony in Marrakesh in April 1994. This period saw major changes in the text and the extent of obligations undertaken in the agriculture and services sectors, as well as the final completion of negotiations in subsidies and countervailing duties, customs valuation, and other sectors. It was also during this last period that the final agreements in trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights (TRIPS) and trade-related invested measures (TRIMS) emerged. Like the earlier volumes in this treatise, Volume Four is useful for its revelation not only of what was resolved but also of what was not resolved. This work belongs in the collection of all concerned with the evolution and continuing development of international trade as a vital component of our contemporary world. ... Read more

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Title: Un huésped honorable.(historia, Uruguay)(TT: Honorable guest.)(TA: history, Uruguay)(Artículo Breve)
Author: Rubén Loza Aguerrebere
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: August 2, 2002
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 51(1)

Article Type: Artículo Breve, Biography

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The Uruguay Round of negotiations in the GATT took over four years to prepare, and seven more years to complete. Failure often threatened; success was not certain until the very last days of the negotations. The most ambitious worldwide negotiations ever attempted on trade matters -- perhaps, indeed, on any economic subject -- the Round covered an enormous range of questions, some highly sensitive. Over one hundred governments took part in these negotiations, defending the interests of countries of all sizes, stages of development and economic structures. Unlike previous GATT negotiations, this one spilled over into the political arena, sparking sharp controversy, international tension, and in some countries even riots. The agreements reached are expected to influence world growth and development for decades to come. Since the Uruguay Round agreements were signed in April 1994, they have been widely discussed and analyzed. Studies have sought to estimate their impact on world economic growth, production patterns, and world trade. This book, however, has a different purpose: to trace the history of the Round. It seeks to explain, in as accessible and non-technical a way as possible, how the Uruguay Round came about, why it covered the subjects it did, what the participants sought, and the twists, turns, setbacks and successes in each sector of the negotiations. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Epoca, published by Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA) on February 1, 2002. The length of the article is 675 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: EL MATE: UNA LARGA HISTORIA.(cultura popular, Uruguay)(TT: Mate: a long history.)(TA: popular culture, Uruguay)(Artículo Breve)
Author: Rubén Loza Aguerrebere
Publication: Epoca (Magazine/Journal)
Date: February 1, 2002
Publisher: Difusora de Informacion Periodica, S.A. (DINPESA)
Page: 57

Article Type: Artículo Breve

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After the conclusion of the Uruguay Round a complete overview of this important phase in GATT history is now available. This extensive work covering the six years leading to the conclusion of the Uruguay Round comes in three separate volumes in which the talks and the positions taken are described in detail. Apart from the historical data the book contains a comprehensive commentary and analysis of the negotiations and the final accord.The GATT Uruguay Round: A Negotiating History (1986--1992) is certainly the most complete work on the developments preceding the final conclusion of the Uruguay Round. As such it is an ideal reference work for historians and specialists in international or commercial law.Specific topics that played an important role during the Uruguay Round, such as agriculture, services, subsidies and antidumping, are treated in separate chapters, making it an ideal reference work for everyone interested in certain GATT issues. The following parts are separately available: Offprints volume 1:90-6544-748-2: Introduction and Overview90-6544-749-0: Agriculture90-6544-750-4: Textiles90-6544-754-7: Subsidies and Countervailing Measures Offprints volume 2:90-6544-753-9: Antidumping90-6544-752-0: Dispute Settlement90-6544-760-1: Services90-6544-759-8: Trade-Related Investment Measures90-6544-762-8: Trade-Related Aspects of Intellectual Property90-6544-764-4: Functioning of the GATT System ... Read more

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In this volume, Alexander sketches the history of organized labor in the countries of Uruguay and Paraguay. He covers such topics as the role of organized labor in the economics and politics of these two countries and their relations with the international labor movement. It is based on extensive personal contacts of the author with the labor movements over almost half a century. It may seem unusual at first to have both of these countries in one volume because there does not exist anywhere else in Latin America such historical political disparity between neighboring countries as that between Uruguay and Paraguay. However, in spite of the political contrasts, there are certain similarities in the history of the labor movements of these two republics. In both Uruguay and Paraguay, the earliest organizations to be founded by the workers were mutual benefit societies, rather than trade unions. But in both countries, trade unions which sought to protect their members against employers began to appear. By the early years of the 20th century, these unions began to demand that employers negotiate with them, and there were an increasing number of strikes, attempting to make these demands effective. There were soon efforts to bring together the various trade unions into broader local, national, and international labor organizations. ... Read more

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Uruguay has recently come to the attention to global strategic planners.This report puts these executives on the fast track.Ten chapters provide: an overview of how to strategically access this important market, a discussion on economic fundamentals, marketing & distribution options, export and direct investment options, and full risk assessments (political, cultural, legal, human resources).Ample statistical benchmarks and comparative graphs are given. ... Read more

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Martel's La bolsa (1891) initiates, and Dorfman's Reader (1995) concludes, a study of the white-collar citizens of Buenos Aires and Montevideo in their daytime habitat: the office. The literary background is the European literature of bureaucracy: Balzac, Galdós, Gogol, Dickens, Dostoyevsky, Kafka; the theoretical approach is through the sociologists Max Weber and C. Wright Mills; the historical context is the twentieth century: the decline of European power and the ascendency of the USA; two World Wars; the Wall Street crash; communism and fascism. Through the eyes of Arlt, Benedetti, Campodónico, Cortázar, De Castro, Denevi, Fernández, Marechal, Mariani, Martínez Estrada, Onetti and Ricci, we observe life on both sides of the River Plate, as the two countries succumb to polarisation, repression and, eventually, military dictatorship. This is the twentieth century, viewed by a bewildered, frequently anguished participant: the person at the next desk.PAUL R. JORDAN lectures in Hispanic Studies at the University of Sheffield. ... Read more

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This digital document is an article from Chasqui, published by Chasqui on May 1, 2002. The length of the article is 824 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: Verdesio, Gustavo. Forgotten Conquests: Rereading New World History from the Margins. [Trans. of La invencion del Uruguay].(Resena de libro)
Author: Alice Reckley Vallejos
Publication: Chasqui (Refereed)
Date: May 1, 2002
Publisher: Chasqui
Volume: 31Issue: 1Page: 143(2)

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This work explains the causes of social policy reform in Chile and Uruguay in the areas of health care, pensions and education. Until the 1970s, Chile and Uruguay shared striking similarities. They had the most universalistic and redistributive social protection systems of Latin America, their schemes were extremely costly and continued to develop even after economic recessions. Both countries faced significant fiscal deficits and demographic changes posed additional challenges to their systems. Both experienced democratic breakdowns in 1973. ... Read more