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Textiles and apparel in NAFTA : a case of constrained liberalization
Bannister, Geoffrey; Low, Patrick - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1992
-sharing arrangements have made Mexico heavily dependent on U.S. inputs. Roughly 53 percent of Mexican textile and apparel exports to the … input-sourcing requirements is open to question. The competitiveness of Mexico's apparel industry in non-NAFTA markets will …
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The World Trade Organization's Doha cotton initiative : a tale of two issues
Anderson, Kym; Valenzuela, Ernesto - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2006
Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton Initiative that involves two issues: cutting cotton subsidies and tariffs, and assisting farm productivity growth in Africa. The authors provide estimates of the potential...
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The political economy of commodity export policy : a case study of India
Kondo, Masanori - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2001
Many developing country governments discriminate against sectors that export primary commodities. India, for example …'offsetting the short-run benefits of inexpensive cotton in India. The author develops a numerical model to measure the impact of … India's cotton sector. Such costly subsidy of handlooms is undesirable not only budgetarily but also politically, becauseit …
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The co-movement between cotton and polyester prices
Baffes, John; Gohou, Gaston - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2005
The authors examine the price linkages among polyester (the dominant chemical fiber), cotton (the dominant natural fiber), and crude oil (the dominant energy commodity), based on monthly data between 1980 and 2002. The modeling framework incorporates several aspects of the unit root econometrics...
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Cotton : Market setting, trade policies, and issues
Baffes, John - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2004
The value of world cotton production in 2000-01 has been estimated at about $20 billion, down from $35 billion in 1996-97 when cotton prices were 50 percent higher. Although cotton's share in world merchandise trade is insignificant (about 0.12 percent), it is very important to a number of...
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Risk management prospects for Egyptian cotton
Varangis, Panos; Thigpen, Elton; Akiyama, Takamasa - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 1993
The authors examine risk management options for Egyptian cottons, the export prices for which are volatile. They use regression analysis to establish whether Egyptian cotton's prices can be effectively hedged by using existing futures contracts on the New York Cotton Exchange. They find no...
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Recent and prospective adoption of genetically modified cotton : a global computable general equilibrium analysis of economic impacts
Anderson, Kym; Valenzuela, Ernesto; Jackson, Lee Ann - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2006
The authors provide estimates of the economic impact of initial adoption of genetically modified (GM) cotton and of its potential impacts beyond the few countries where it is currently common. They use the latest version of the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) database and model. The results...
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Export performance and geography in Croatia
Artuc, Erhan; Iootty, Mariana; Pirlea, Ana Florina - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
This paper uses the gravity model to analyze whether the varying export performance of Croatian counties can be explained by their proximity to border gates, ports, and other county-specific characteristics. The analysis finds that longer distances to border gates increase trade frictions...
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Use of imported inputs and the cost of importing : evidence from developing countries
Amin, Mohammad; Islam, Asif - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
For a representative sample of manufacturing firms in 26 countries, this paper shows that changes in the cost of importing over time are significantly and negatively correlated with changes in the percentage of firms'material inputs that are of foreign origin. Furthermore, the paper shows that...
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Reducing trade costs in east Africa : deep regional integration and multilateral action
Balistreri, Edward J.; Tarr, David G.; Yonezawa, Hidemichi - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014
There is substantial evidence that with the progressive global decline in tariffs over several decades, trade costs are a more significant barrier to trade than tariffs, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper decomposes trade costs into three categories: costs that can be lowered by trade...
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