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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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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 study focuses on the role of trade and trade policy in achieving sustained long-term growth in Africa. One major conclusion is that trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa works much the same way that it does elsewhere. High levels of trade restrictions have been an important obstacle to exports...
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Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...
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Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country characteristics are controlled for? There exists a large empirical literature providing an affirmative answer to this question. We argue that methodological problems with the empirical...
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This study focuses on the role of trade and trade policy in achieving sustained long-term growth in Africa. One major conclusion is that trade policy in Sub-Saharan Africa works much the same way that it does elsewhere. High levels of trade restrictions have been an important obstacle to exports...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012472246
In thinking about policy, academic economists alternate between theoretical models in which governments can design finely-tuned optimal interventions and practical considerations which usually assume the government to be incompetent and hostage to special interests. I argue in this paper that...
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