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Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2004

The Commission was asked to evaluate current assistance arrangements to the TCF industries and provide policy options for post 2005 assistance and to report on a range of related matters that will affect the sector's long-term viability. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues...

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Liberalising Trade in Textiles and Clothing: A Survey of Quantitative Studies

Walkenhorst, Peter - EconWPA - 2004

textiles and clothing production and trade as the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) is implemented. There is pressure … for a large-scale reallocation of resources, with production of textiles and clothing expanding in Asian and other … developing countries. In parallel, textiles and clothing production in industrialised countries is expected to contract …

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Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2003

EconWPA; Steering Committeee for the Review of … - 2004

Overcoming Indigenous Disadvantage: Key Indicators 2003 highlights the marked disparities between Indigenous and other Australians. While not the first report to assemble data on the social or economic status of Indigenous people, it is distinguished by the strategic framework within which the...

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Removing Tariffs on Goods Originating from Least Developed Countries

Commission, Productivity - EconWPA - 2003

imports from these countries, particularly of clothing, and would have little impact on prices, incomes or jobs in Australia. …

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Taux de Change et Potentiel d'Exportation au Maroc

ACHY, Lahcen - EconWPA - 2005

L’objet de ce papier est de tenter de se prononcer sur la «part de responsabilité» de la variabilité du taux de change du DH dans la régression des exportations marocaines du secteur des industries de Textile-Habillement et Cuir.

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Productivity in Australia's wholesale and retail trade

Johnston, Alan; Porter, Darrell; Cobbold, Trevor; … - EconWPA - 2001

Examines the productivity performance of the wholesale and retail trade sectors in light of their significant contribution to Australia’s record productivity performance in the 1990s. Fundamental changes in the nature and operations of wholesale trade, in particular, have brought marked...

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Minimum Quality Standards and Equilibrium Selection with Asymmetric Firms

Bonroy, Olivier; Constantatos, Christos - EconWPA - 2005

In a vertically differentiated market with cost asymmetries, the risk dominance criterion selects the equilibrium where the high quality is produced by the efficient firm. We show that a sufficiently high Minimum Quality Standard reverses equilibrium selection. Hence, MQS may be used in order to...

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The Modern World: The effect of democracy, colonialism and war on economic growth 1820-2000

Milanovic, Branko - EconWPA - 2005

The paper uses the recently available data on growth rates, democracy, protectionism, and wars over the period 1820 to … the effect of democracy on growth, was colonialism economically bad for colonies, does protectionism affect growth …

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Gewährleisten umgesetzte WTO-Streitschlichtungsurteile offene Märkte? Eine Betrachtung am Beispiel des Zeitschriftenfalles

Zimmermann, Thomas A. - EconWPA - 2005

Theoretical analyses of the WTO dispute settlement mechanism suggest that the system contains only weak incentives for the implementation of rulings. Against this background, it is puzzling that the specific WTO procedure which deals with allegedly insufficient implementation is used only in...

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International Institutions and Market Expectations: Stock Price Responses to the WTO Ruling on the 2002 U.S. Steel Tariffs.

Jensen, Nathan M - EconWPA - 2005

Thanks to Nitsan Chorev, Robert Connolly, David Leblang, Quan Li, Andy Mertha, Layna Mosley, Bumba Mukherjee, Eric Reinhardt, Peter Rosendorff, Matthew Slaughter, Andy Sobel, participants of the 2004 Midwest Political Science Association annual meeting and the 2004 Duke Summer Institute on...

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