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Vietnam Development Report 2019 : Connecting Vietnam for Growth and Shared Prosperity

World Bank Group - 2019

Globally, Vietnam is among the most open economies with a trade-to-GDP ratio of 190 percent in 2018. Through the … has made remarkable achievements in trade liberalization. Vietnam's major trade partners located in East Asia, North … relations and connectivity initiatives are relevant to Vietnam, including with Southeast Asian neighbors, and South Asia …

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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies

Mc Millan, Margaret - 2017

development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries-Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …

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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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Trade, Foreign Exchange, and Energy Policies in the Islamic Republic of Iran : Reform Agenda, Economic Implications, and Impact on the Poor

Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David - 2013

The Islamic Republic of Iran has committed itself to substantial trade and market reform in its Third Five-Year Development Plan. It started out with nontariff barriers on all products, a dual exchange rate regime with the market rate more than four times the official rate, and domestic energy...

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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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Trade, Regulations, and Growth

Bolaky, Bineswaree; Freund, Caroline - 2013

Trade does not stimulate growth in economies with excessive business and labor regulations. The authors examine the effect of openness on growth using cross-country regressions in both levels and changes. Results from the levels regressions imply that increased openness is associated with a...

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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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