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This paper briefly reviews new indices of trade restrictiveness and trade facilitation that have been developed at the World Bank. The paper also compares the trade impact of different types of trade restrictions applied at the border with the effects of domestic policies that affect trade...
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the manner suggested by the political economy model of Grossman and Helpman (1994). This is the first attempt to test this … government. The results imply the underpinnings of a political economy equilibrium that will be hard to dislodge. …
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subset of the literature focusing on trade policy and integration into the world economy. Although in the longer run trade …
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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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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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