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restrictions is modest, at about 0.25 percent of global trade, as most countries have resisted a widespread resort to protectionism … restrict trade, so unless all countries vigorously resist protectionism this could threaten the economic recovery and drag down …
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This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects of openness on poverty in two components: the effect of openness on average income growth, and the effect on distribution for a given growth rate. Evidence from a variety of...
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The export performance of Sub-Saharan Africa has lagged behind that of developing countries in other regions for the past two decades, and total export proceeds have fallen significantly since 1980. Many factors explain this outcome, including continued concentration in slowly-growing non-fuel...
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This paper deals with trade policy issues of particular interest to the Fund. It is motivated both by the revival of protectionist attitudes in the industrial countries and the prevalence of liberalization proposals for developing countries. In veiw of Fund concerns with the functioning of the...
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This paper points out that while many developing countries seek to increase their export earnings, they have not embraced fully the notion that their own pattern of import protection hurts their export performance. The paper quantifies the extent to which import protection acts as a tax on a...
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support claims that protectionism and distortive subsidies to agriculture remain widespread in more developed nations, which …-country protectionism are also found to be relatively closed to agricultural trade. …
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found to be responsible for 2/3 of the trade decline due to crisis protectionism, but their exports also absorbed 2/3 of …
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This paper uses the 1991 Indian trade liberalization to measure the impact of trade liberalization on poverty, and to examine the mechanisms underpinning this impact. Variation in sectoral composition across districts and liberalization intensity across production sectors allows a...
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