"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 …

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 …

Latin American exporters and U.S. importers' lobbying efforts have a significant and important role in determining the …

with extending this analysis of redistribution to other forms of international factor flows-more specifically, migrant …

devised to decompose the redistributive effect of a tax to analyze the extent to which vertical redistribution associated with … changing incomes over time is offset or reinforced by horizontal redistribution and re-ranking. He uses panel data from China … of horizontal redistribution and re-ranking in both China-and to a lesser extent Vietnam-more than offset pro …

Uruguay's Government is currently analyzing several reform strategies for the social sectors. These include a health … reform, the introduction of a new poverty alleviation program, possible changes in pensions and unemployment insurance, and … also a tax reform, that impacts the income transfer policies in several aspects. The purpose of this report is to …