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"The authors develop an endogenous growth model that combines structural change with repeated product improvement. That is, the technologies in one sector of the model become not only increasingly capital-intensive, but also progressively productive over time. Application of the basic model to...
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"As pesticide traders are important sources of information about the health impacts of pesticides, a crucial understanding of their perception is necessary to guide further pesticide information dissemination efforts through this channel. To this end, a 2003 survey of 110 Bangladeshi pesticide...
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"Services trade reform matters, but what is Doha doing about it? It has been hard to judge, because of the opaqueness … on the table. It presents the results of the first survey of applied trade policies in the major services sectors of 56 …. The World Trade Organization's Hong Kong Ministerial had set out ambitious goals for services but the analysis here shows …
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"This paper identifies and estimates the strength of the reduction in poverty linked to improved opportunities for women in the expanding maquila sector. A simulation exercise shows that, at a given point in time, poverty in Honduras would have been 1.5 percentage points higher had the maquila...
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"This paper examines the effect of regionalism on unilateral trade liberalization using industry-level data on applied … results suggest that concerns about a negative effect of preferential liberalization on external trade liberalization are …
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; and the mobilization of resources to deal with the trade problems of least developed countries. WTO Members have offered … members include vital tariff lines. The initiatives on trade facilitation and aid for trade can play a valuable catalytic role …
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