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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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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 …

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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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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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Who profits from trade facilitation initiatives?

Hoekman, Bernard M.; Shepherd, Ben - 2013

Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from trade facilitation - measures to reduce the overall costs of the international movement of goods. From an equity perspective an important question is how those benefits are distributed across and within...

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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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The economic impact of Trans-Pacific partnership : what have we learned from CGE simulation?

Gilbert, John P.; Furusawa, Taiji; Scollay, Robert D. J. - 2016

The Trans-Pacific-Partnership (TPP) trade agreement, if successfully implemented, will liberalize trade between the US, Japan and ten other Asia-Pacific economies, making it one of the largest regional agreements ever seen. The prospect of a comprehensive trade agreement spanning the Pacific...

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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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Globalization and State Capitalism : Assessing Vietnam's Accession to the WTO

Baccini, Leonardo - 2017

Vietnamese firms to the 2007 WTO accession. Our result show that WTO accession is associated with higher probability of exit …

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