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countries of Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam. The trade policies of these countries are examined, and a series of … impacts on sensitive domestic industries in Vietnam. The study recommends that accession to AFTA be viewed as an important …
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People's Democratic Republic, and Vietnam), whose performance in export and income growth has been strikingly better than … income growth. (It makes no sense, for example, to introduce the trade policy instruments of a market economy when the … domestic economy is still based on central planning.)But there has been no single magic formula for their success. Martin …
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instruments of a market economy when the domestic economy is still based on central planning.) But there has been no single magic …, and Vietnam) has done. China experienced an extended transition process; the transition ws much shorter in other East …
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This paper develops a new version of the GTAP database in which Canada is replaced by its provinces in order to allow the analysis of international trade agreements at a subnational level. The methodology in effect treats the individual provinces as separate trading entities, much like the...
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increases average wages. In addition to these intra-sectoral effects, changes in the composition of output at the economy …
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The agreement to abolish the quotas on textiles and clothing introduced under the Multi-fiber Arrangement (MFA) will create a new and much more competitive world market for India's exports of textiles and clothing. India's inefficient and costly policies, such as cotton export quotas, the hank...
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This paper explores the implications of recent developments in firm-based trade theory and empirics for trade policy and negotiations. While traditional trade theory focused on the country, and the new trade theory of the 1980’s adopted the industry as the unit for analysis, the newest theory...
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The accelerated expansion of China’s trade and current account surpluses since 2004, and the associated expansion of China’s foreign exchange reserves in the context of very rapid investment-driven domestic economic growth and adverse movements in China’s terms of trade have led China’s...
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importing intermediate inputs to drive innovation; (ii) a plurilateral Digital Economy Trade Agreement to address impediments to …
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The long trade peace that took hold with the signing of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) on 30 October 1947 is over. As of mid-2018, the world is embroiled in a trade war of global dimensions. This note charts the path to trade war, discusses U.S.policy aims and its trading...
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