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The trade and welfare impacts of multilateral liberalization on individual countries and groups within countries depend on many factors-including the depth of liberalization by trading partners, the extent of countries' own reforms, the responsiveness of investors to changes in relative prices...
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place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …
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At the 9th Ministerial Conference of the WTO in Bali it was agreed to develop a work program to conclude the long-running Doha round. This report argues that any work program should recognize that goods and services are increasingly produced in international supply chains. Many of the policies...
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place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …
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The deadlock in the WTO Doha Round has been accompanied by an increased focus on the negotiation of preferential trade agreements, including so-called ‘mega-regionals'. This paper discusses possible implications for — and possible responses by — excluded countries that have little...
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Hoekman analyzes what actions could be taken in the context of the World Trade Organization's Doha negotiations to …
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The Doha Round of the World Trade Organization (WTO) negotiations has been ongoing for 10 years, and given political …
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World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for … making national treatment the objective of World Trade Organization services negotiations, thereby clarifying the scope of … World Trade Organization commitments for regulators. Moreover, liberalization by smaller and poorer members of the World …
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Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate into worsening export performance for the least developed countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. The authors examine the actual scope for preference...
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reducing domestic trade costs for traders in developing countries and the world as a whole. We show that a relatively small …
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