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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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Safeguards and Antidumping in Latin American Trade Liberalization

Finger, J. Michael; Nogues, Julio J. - 2012

pressures for protection in agencies with economy-wide accountabilities. The World Trade Organization's procedural requirements …

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The Structure of Import Tariffs in the Russian Federation : 2001-05

Shepotylo, Oleksandr; Tarr, David - 2012

The Russian tariff structure contains over 11,000 tariff lines of which about 1,700 use the so-called "combined" tariff rate system. For the combined system tariff lines, the actual tariff applied by Russian customs is the maximum of the ad valorem or specific tariff. The lack of available data...

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Introduction and summary to the Handbook of Trade Policy and WTO Accession for Development in Russia and the CIS

Tarr, David; Navaretti, Giorgio Barba - 2012

This paper is the introduction and summary chapter of the 43 chapter volume entitled Handbook of Trade Policy and WTO Accession for Development in Russia and the CIS. The key policy conclusions of each of the chapters are highlighted in this paper. The Handbook will be published only in Russian...

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Trade Insulation as Social Protection

Do, Quy-Toan; Levchenko, Andrei A.; Ravallion, Martin - 2013

In a world with volatile food prices, countries have an incentive to shelter their populations from induced real income shocks. When some agents are net food producers while others are net consumers, there is scope for insurance between the two groups. A domestic social protection scheme would...

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Gainers and Losers from Trade Reform in Morocco

Ravallion, Martin; Lokshin, Michael - 2013

The authors use Morocco's national survey of living standards to measure the short-term welfare impacts of prior estimates of the price changes attributed to various trade policy reforms for cereals-the country's main food staple. They find small impacts on mean consumption and inequality in the...

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Sustaining Trade Reform : Institutional Lessons from Peru and Argentina

Baracat, Elias A.; Finger, J. Michael; Nogués, Julio J.; … - 2014

Peruvians a positive vision of Peru in the international economy and to extend the application of World Trade Organization … the international economy as an exploitive environment. The paper brings out the weakness of international obligations to … economy within the same rules that Argentina has so easily violated. …

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How Long Will It Take to Lift One Billion People Out of Poverty?

Ravallion, Martin - 2013

Alternative scenarios are considered for reducing by one billion the number of people living below $1.25 a day. The low-case, "pessimistic," path to that goal would see the developing world outside China returning to its slower pace of growth and poverty reduction of the 1980s and 1990s, though...

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