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This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects …-level research, and case studies) supports the view that trade openness contributes greatly to growth. Moreover, trade openness does … not have systematic effects on the poor beyond its effect on overall growth. Trade policy is only one of many determinants …
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-country protectionism are also found to be relatively closed to agricultural trade. …This paper provides the first comprehensive empirical analysis of agricultural trade using a gravity model. The data … set covers bilateral trade in agricultural goods for 152 countries over the periods 1990-93 and 1999-2002. The estimations …
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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 …The pace of trade reforms waned from the mid-2000s as protectionist sentiment began to increase. With the onset of the …
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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 …
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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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found to be responsible for 2/3 of the trade decline due to crisis protectionism, but their exports also absorbed 2/3 of …This paper investigates how trade flows are being affected by new discriminatory measures implemented during the global … through April 2010 to monthly HS 4-digit bilateral trade data. Our estimation strategy relies on a first-differenced gravity …
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This paper uses the 1991 Indian trade liberalization to measure the impact of trade liberalization on poverty, and to …
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