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Do trade facilitation provisions in regional trade agreements matter? : impact on trade costs and multilateral spillovers
Duval, Yann; Neufeld, Nora; Utoktham, Chorthip - 2016
featured in the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) contribute to reducing trade costs. Inclusion of such provisions in RTAs …
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Sustainable development impact of trade and investment liberalization in Asia and the Pacific
Narayanan, Badri; Duval, Yann; Kravchenko, Alexey; … - 2017
Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As...
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Prospects of the Bali Ministerial Conference
Dhar, Biswajit; Kishore, Roshan - 2013
This paper looks at the possibilities of a concluding "Bali package" on the issues that are currently engaging the WTO …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010202237
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Impact of implementation of digital trade facilitation on trade costs
Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip; Kravchenko, Alexey - 2018
different sets of measures are considered, from a basic set of measures to ensure compliance with the World Trade Organization … Trade Facilitation Agreement (WTO TFA) commitments, to a full set of digital trade facilitation measures. The analysis shows … that full implementation of both binding and non-binding measures in the WTO TFA is associated with an average 15% trade …
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On the Widely Differing Effects of Free Trade Agreements : Lessons from Twenty Years of Trade Integration
Baier, Scott L. - 2016
We develop a novel two-stage methodology that allows us to study the empirical determinants of the ex post effects of past free trade agreements (FTAs) as well as obtain ex ante predictions for the effects of future FTAs. We first identify 908 unique estimates of the effects of FTAs on different...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012977471
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Trade Imbalances and Multilateral Trade Cooperation
Marchetti, Juan A.; Ruta, Michele; Teh, Robert - 2021
the “coherence gap” in global governance. This paper examines the contribution that the WTO can make in its three areas of … argument that could be made for the use of WTO-triggered trade actions to enforce cooperative behaviour towards rebalancing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013315818
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Tariff liberalization in the RCEP trade agreement and impact on India's automobile industry : an applied general equilibrium analysis
Narayanan, Badri; Sen, Rahul; Srivastava, Sadhana - 2019
Although India has been experiencing a significant trade deficit with respect to RCEP members, and therefore likely to be extremely cautious in terms of committing to any tariff liberalization under a formal RCEP agreement. This is mainly due to the fear that cheaper imports through RCEP will be...
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Trade facilitation and poverty reduction in Asia and the Pacific : a case study of a South Asian economic corridor
De, Prabir; Raychaudhuri, Ajitava - 2013
Relation between trade, inequality and poverty within countries is not beyond controversy. Under free trade and competitive conditions, trade promotes growth, and growth reduces poverty. In general, trade liberalisation has long been seen as an important element of an effective and sound...
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What role should connectivity play in reenergising South Asia?
De, Prabir; Kumarasamy, Durairaj - 2020
South Asia could unleash its full potentials, provided, it improves the infrastructure facilities, which are at present not sufficient to meet the growing demand of the region. The renewed and shared agenda of the South Asian regional cooperation should aim to reduce both intra- and inter-...
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SPS measures and possible market access implications for agricultural trade in the Doha Round : an analysis of systemic issues
Kallummal, Murali - 2012
has increased tremendously in the recent past. This paper discusses an analysis of the SPS notifications made by WTO … measures as a tool for "disguised" protectionism. This can be best achieved by harmonizing the standards across WTO Members …-tariff measures ; ad-valorem equivalents ; technological gap ; harmonization ; WTO …
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