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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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Economic effects of the Syrian war and the spread of the Islamic state on the Levant

Ianchovichina, Elena; Ivanic, Maros - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2014

This paper uses a global computable general-equilibrium framework with new detail on six Levant countries -- the Arab Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic effects of the Syrian war and the advance of the...

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World Bank East Asia and Pacific Economic Update, April 2015

Economics Research, World Bank Group; World Bank

The East Asia and Pacific Economic Update provides regular, biannual analyses of development trends and economic policy issues across the East Asia and Pacific region.

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Trade agreements and enforcement : evidence from WTO dispute settlement

Bown, Chad P.; Reynolds, Kara Marie - Economics Research, World Bank Group - 2015

This paper examines the implications of the terms-of-trade theory for the determinants of outcomes arising under the enforcement provisions of international agreements. Like original trade agreement negotiations, the paper models formal trade dispute negotiations as potentially addressing the...

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