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and tariffs-for cotton it is subsidy reductions rather than tariff cuts that would make by far the largest impact. For Sub …
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"This is one of 10 studies for the Copenhagen Consensus Project that sought to evaluate the most feasible opportunities to improve welfare globally and alleviate poverty in developing countries. Anderson argues that phasing out distortionary government subsidies and barriers to international...
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"Colombia's experience in the use of safeguards and antidumping duties differs from international trends. On the one … antidumping as opposed to safeguards, in Colombia the safeguard process has been the more used policy instrument. Although several … large and medium-size firms are familiar with the application of safeguards and antidumping duties, there is still a …
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"Antidumping and related trade remedies are the most popular policy instruments that many of the largest importing … the negatively affected foreign industry has the capacity to directly retaliate through a reciprocal antidumping … with the theory that potential complainants may be avoiding WTO litigation in favor of pursuing reciprocal antidumping and …
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"Madagascar's textile and apparel industry has been among the fastest growing in Sub-Saharan Africa. Fueled by low labor costs, a fairly productive labor force, and preferential access to industrial countries, Madagascar's exports of textile and apparel products grew from about US
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products: i) increased competition from large, low-wage producers such as India, China, Bangladesh and Pakistan following the …
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subsidies for water and electricity services. Their analysis of a wide range of subsidy models from around the developing world … shows that the most common form of utility subsidy-quantity-based subsidies delivered through the tariff structure … effectiveness of consumption subsidy schemes to reach the poor. Simulations suggest that connection subsidies are an attractive …
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"Large and sustained differences in economic performance across regions of developing countries have long provided motivation for fiscal incentives designed to encourage firm entry in lagging areas. But empirical evidence in support of these policies has been weak at best. The authors undertake...
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