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Reforming Non-Tariff Measures : From Evidence to Policy Advice

Cadot, Olivier - 2018

High levels of trade costs persist in the world trading system, despite recent progress in tariff reduction, trade facilitation, and logistics. At least some of these costs can be attributed to non-tariff measures (NTMs), policies imposed by governments other than ordinary customs duties which...

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Do's and Don'ts of Trade Policy in the Response to COVID-19

World Bank Group - 2020

Experience from previous global and food crises provides some guidance for appropriate trade responses during the crisis and those that are likely to undermine effective national and global responses. However, the speed, scale and nature of this crisis are unprecedented which requires thinking...

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When elephants make peace : the impact of the China-U.S. trade agreement on developing countries

Freund, Caroline L.; Maliszewska, Maryla; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - 2020

Should the China-U.S. trade agreement prompt relief because it averts a damaging trade war or concern because selective preferential access for the United States to China's markets breaks multilateral rules against discrimination? The answer depends on how China implements the agreement....

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Trade policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis : evidence from a new data set

Evenett, Simon J.; Fiorini, Matteo; Fritz, Johannes; … - 2020

This paper presents new high-frequency data on trade policy changes targeting medical and food products since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, documenting how countries used trade policy instruments in response to the health crisis on a week-by-week basis. The data set reveals a rapid...

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South Asia's Turn : Policies to Boost Competitiveness and Create the Next Export Powerhouse

Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys - 2017 - Online-Ausg.

South Asia has a huge need to create more and better jobs for a growing population especially in the manufacturing industries where it is underperforming as compared to East Asia. The report examines three critical and relatively understudied drivers of competitiveness: -Economies of...

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Trade Policy and WTO Accession for Economic Development : Application to Russia and the CIS, Module 2. Openness, Growth and Poverty

Navaretti, Giorgio Barba - 2005

This book examines the effects of trade on growth and poverty. It addresses the following questions:1) Which are the channels through which trade openness may affect the economic activities of a given country? ; 2) What are the effects of trade openness on growth? ; and 3) What are the effects...

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Latin American growth : a trade perspective

Torre, Augusto de la; Ize, Alain - 2019

This paper reviews the determinants of Latin America's uneven growth based on an accounting decomposition that breaks down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction exerted by the country's exports, (ii) an external...

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Policy uncertainty, trade, and global value chains : some facts, many questions

Constantinescu, Cristina; Mattoo, Aaditya; Ruta, Michele - 2019

This paper attempts to quantify the impact of economic policy uncertainty on overall trade and trade linked to global value chains. Using new data on policy uncertainty for 18 countries and 24 years, it finds a statistically significant negative impact of policy uncertainty on overall trade...

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Improving Agricultural Interventions Under the New National Target Programs in Vietnam

World Bank Group - 2020

Vietnam has achieved remarkable economic development over the last few decades, realizing major gains in productivity … increase in per capita income. While Vietnam has become a major international player in global food markets, there remains a … started when the COVID-19 (Coronavirus) pandemic was not fully pronounced in Vietnam and around the globe, the pandemic has …

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Rejecting new technology : the case of genetically modified wheat

Berwald, Derek; Carter, Colin Andre; Gruère, Guillaume P. - In: American journal of agricultural economics 88 (2006) 2, pp. 432-447

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