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In 1999, the Commonwealth Government referred the scope for a post-2000 reduction in the general tariff to the Productivity Commission for inquiry and report within nine months. The general tariff covers only rates of 5 per cent or less, and excludes the PMV and TCF sectors. On balance, the...
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The Eastern enlargement represents an opportunity for trade expansion for all the countries involved. In fact, trade … of the EU- CEEC trade in the last decade and study the potential bilateral trade flows between the EU and the CEEC. In … particular, besides analysing trade relations between CEEC and the EU, we will study trade developments among the CEEC. Moreover …
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, open trade regime to put the economy back on an path of sustainable growth. Whereas the country’s growth record has been … really poor, the evidence suggests that the underlying causes had nothing to do with trade. Quite the contrary. This paper … shows that trade liberalization has given an important contribution to two of the main drivers of growth: productivity and …
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electrical (SITC 77) products in the major markets. Secondly, due to the growing competition in international trade, the study …
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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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Economic theory suggests that liberalization of trade between countries with differing levels of environmental … research to date. Methodologies used for research on trade and environment differ widely; many are difficult to apply to … change in trade policy. Our model analyzes the relative concentrations of “clean” and “dirty” industries in two nations or …
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Rules of origin arrangements under the Australia–New Zealand Closer Economic Relations Trade Agreement (CER) were … report recommended that the CER rules of origin, which confine access to trade concessions to goods produced in Australia or …
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There is a considerable body of analysis available that aims to quantify the economic and trade effects of textile and …. Different tools and approaches have thereby been used to evaluate the impacts of textile trade reform at the regional or global … textiles and clothing production and trade as the Agreement on Textiles and Clothing (ATC) is implemented. There is pressure …
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The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two large data bases of wage inequality that have...
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La presente obra se centra en uno de los problemas fundamentales de nuestra época: el desenvolvimiento económico de la convergencia y el crecimiento en las regiones considerando a las instituciones y el comercio internacional. A lo largo del libro el autor discute los modelos teóricos y...
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