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Brazil's trade liberalization between 1990 and 1993, and its partial reversal in 1995, are used to study how reduced …
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Brazil's trade liberalization between 1990 and 1993, and its partial reversal in 1995, are used to study how reduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10001988206
Brazil's trade liberalization between 1990 and 1993, and its partial reversal in 1995, are used to study how reduced …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011402582
Since 1983, Ghana has witnessed trade liberalization policies that were introduced as part of structural adjustment and economic recovery programmes and meant to open up the once closed economy. As part of such reforms, tariffs were reduced, and non-tariff trade barriers lessened. The adjustment...
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Theory predicts that trade liberalization should raise average total factor productivity (TFP) among manufacturing firms. However, this is a generic prediction and depends on maintained assumptions about industries, factor markets, and trade patterns that may not fit well for developing...
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This paper estimates the influence of the service sector's liberalization on service flows in transition economies and on productivity of the Russian industry that uses these services as intermediate consumption. Empirical analysis of the international statistics shows that service trade between...
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Brazil has built over the decades, with great effort and sacrifice, a dynamic, integrated manufacturing sector that has … comparative analysis of industrial development, to assess the case of Brazil. We find evidence that the Brazilian manufacturing … complex, several business and investment opportunities emerging in Brazil can give a new boost to the manufacturing sector and …
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by an intersectional perspective, we consider overlapping effects across gender, race, and wage levels. We exploit Brazil …
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by the trade liberalization process implemented in Brazil between 1990 and 1995. This high impact and low duration event … and 2018 presidential elections in Brazil, which resulted in the election of a left-wing and a rightwing populist … president, respectively. The results show that trade reforms explain the rise of populism in Brazil during the last two decades …
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We investigate the long-term effects of export opportunities to a large destination market on multinational affiliates and domestic firms in a low-income host country. The US-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement reduced US import tariffs on exports from Vietnam. Tariff reductions led to entry...
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