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Rethinking Trade Preferences: How Africa Can Diversify its Exports
Collier, Paul; Venables, Anthony J - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2007
exports, leading to rapid growth in exports and employment. To do so, preferences need to be designed to be consistent with … Act shows that, in the right conditions, Sub-Saharan African countries have had large manufacturing export supply response …
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Aid, Export Promotion and the Real Exchange Rate: An African Dilemma?
van Wijnbergen, Sweder - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1985
Africa, while a major aid recipient, has had disappointing export performance. This paper argues for a causal link: aid …, by being partially spent on non-traded goods, leads to real appreciation and reduced export competitiveness. I …
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Rules of Origin, Preferences and Diversification in Apparel: African Exports to the US and to the EU
de Melo, Jaime; Portugal-Pérez, Alberto - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2008
The EU and the US offer similar preferential market access for apparel exports to a group of African countries. These … and then made-up into apparel in the same country or in a country qualifying for cumulation (double transformation), AGOA … the criteria for preferences (single transformation). Using several estimation methods, this paper contrasts export …
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Exports and Information Spillovers
Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2000
Exporters’ performance in a particular market may affect their future exports to the rest of the world. Importers may … information spillovers across markets on the export patterns of four developing countries (Egypt, Korea, Malaysia and Tunisia). A … dollar increase in exports to the United States generates on average an extra 2 to 14 cents of exports to the rest of the …
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Rags in the High Rent District: The Evolution of Quota Rents in Textiles and Clothing
Francois, Joseph; Wörz, Julia - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2006
calculating export tax equivalents while allowing for inequality constraints on the quota premium estimates. We also introduce …
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The Uruguay Round: A Global General Equilibrium Assessment
Francois, Joseph; McDonald, Brad; Nordström, Håkan - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 1994
In this paper we provide an economic assessment of the Uruguay Round agreements on tariffs, textiles and clothing, and agriculture, highlighting scale economies, imperfect competition, and dynamic linkages between trade, incomes, and investment. We present estimates of the welfare effects of the...
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Do We Really Know that the WTO Increases Trade?
Rose, Andrew K - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2002
(GSP) extended from rich countries to developing countries. I use a standard ‘gravity’ model of bilateral merchandise trade … to find positive significant effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade. The GSP does seem to have a strong effect, and is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005124331
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Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization
Francois, Joseph; Hoekman, Bernard; Manchin, Miriam - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2005
Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate into worsening export performance for the least developed …
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Why are Some People (and Countries) More Protectionist than Others?
Mayda, Anna Maria; Rodrik, Dani - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
We analyse a rich cross-country data set that contains information on attitudes toward trade as well as a broad range of socio-demographic, and other, indicators. We find that pro-trade preferences are significantly and robustly correlated with an individual's level of human capital, in the...
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Tariff Peaks in the Quad and Least Developed Country Exports
Hoekman, Bernard; Ng, Francis; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001
on exports from least developed countries (LDCs). Tariff peak products tend to be heavily concentrated in agriculture and … Quad for tariff peak products would result in an 11% increase in their total exports - in the order of $2.5 billion …. Exports to Quad countries of tariff peak products would expand by 30-60%. Given that LDC exports of tariff peak items account …
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