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"The authors analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components and emphasizing Gini and Atkinson indexes. They embed these inequality-adjusted social welfare functions...
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"The paper provides a first, systematic benchmarking of infrastructure performance in the Southern African Customs Union (SACU) countries (South Africa, Botswana, Lesotho, Namibia, and Swaziland) in four major sectors-electricity, water and sanitation, information and communication technology,...
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In 2010, Kazakhstan entered into a customs union with Belarus and Russia. The first, relatively easy step in the implementation of the customs union was accomplished in 2010 with the adoption of a common external tariff, with varying exceptions in each of the three member countries. It is the...
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The Southern African Customs Union (SACU) is the most unequal region in the world. While there has been some progress in recent years, inequality has remained almost stagnant in the most unequal countries. Using an innovative framework, this report provides a systematic and comprehensive...
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"There exist legal channels for informational lobbying of U.S. policymakers by foreign principals. Foreign governments … issues. This paper empirically studies whether such lobbying effectively achieves its goal of trade promotion in the context … of Caribbean tourism, and suggests the potential for using foreign lobbying as a vehicle for development. Panel data are …
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"The authors study whether political campaign contributions influence agricultural protection in the United States in the manner suggested by the political economy model of Grossman and Helpman (1994). This is the first attempt to test this model using agricultural data. The authors test the...
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the 1991-2000 period to investigate the relationship between lobbying spending and agricultural protection. A detailed … sectors the majority of contributions are made by very few PACs. Econometric analysis reveals that lobbying spending by … strong association between the average U.S. tariff on goods that benefit from U.S. export subsidies and lobbying spending …
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Latin American exporters and U.S. importers' lobbying efforts have a significant and important role in determining the …
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