Pascal Lamy on regional trade agreements

The paper discusses in particular the role of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) regarding Regional Trade Agreements (RTA) and Regional Integration Agreements (RIA) as well as the benefits and limitations of these agreements. Examples are given which outline on the one hand the successful developements which have taken place, but also points on failures in setting up or benefitting from those agreements. It stresses also the need for unified action at the WTO itself

About Face (1989)

Playwright: Dario Fo Director: Bridget Kowalczyk Set Design: James K. Culley Costumes: Elizabeth M. Poindexter Academic Year: 1989-1990https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/productions_1990s/1021/thumbnail.jp

China's trade competitiveness in the area of agricultural products after the implementation of the World Trade Organization commitments

The paper provides evidence on the implementation of China's trade commitments into its institutional and legal environment, which influenced its agricultural trade. The contribution to the trade balance index and the revealed comparative advantage index are used for the identification of changes in China's export competitiveness in agricultural products between 2001 and 2015. The World Trade Organization (WTO) trade liberalisation, followed by changes in the structure of economy, contributed to China building a trade deficit in the area of the agricultural products and losing competitiveness in some products. China gradually liberalised its agricultural trade in compliance with the WTO commitments. However, relatively high protection or state regulation of the domestic market has remained in products that China exports with a revealed comparative disadvantage. The existence of the state trading can also have a negative impact on the results of China's revealed comparative advantage in its exports of agricultural products.Web of Science64938837

Manhattan orbifolds

We investigate a class of metrics for 2-manifolds in which, except for a discrete set of singular points, the metric is locally isometric to an L_1 (or equivalently L_infinity) metric, and show that with certain additional conditions such metrics are injective. We use this construction to find the tight span of squaregraphs and related graphs, and we find an injective metric that approximates the distances in the hyperbolic plane analogously to the way the rectilinear metrics approximate the Euclidean distance.Comment: 17 pages, 15 figures. Some definitions and proofs have been revised since the previous version, and a new example has been adde

Gluing hyperconvex metric spaces

We investigate how to glue hyperconvex (or injective) metric spaces such that the resulting space remains hyperconvex. We give two new criteria, saying that on the one hand gluing along strongly convex subsets and on the other hand gluing along externally hyperconvex subsets leads to hyperconvex spaces. Furthermore, we show by an example that these two cases where gluing works are opposed and cannot be combined.Comment: 11 page

Hyperconvexity and Tight Span Theory for Diversities

The tight span, or injective envelope, is an elegant and useful construction that takes a metric space and returns the smallest hyperconvex space into which it can be embedded. The concept has stimulated a large body of theory and has applications to metric classification and data visualisation. Here we introduce a generalisation of metrics, called diversities, and demonstrate that the rich theory associated to metric tight spans and hyperconvexity extends to a seemingly richer theory of diversity tight spans and hyperconvexity.Comment: revised in response to referee comment

The Duck Sisters (1989)

Playwright: Sheldon Rosen Director: David Kahn Composer: Allen Strange Set Design: Bob Jenkins Costumes: Jeff Struckman Academic Year: 1988-1989https://scholarworks.sjsu.edu/productions_1980s/1045/thumbnail.jp