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Geography in Motion: World Development Report 2009 (excerpt)

World Bank - In: Transnational Corporations Review 1 (2009) 3, pp. 40-46

of density, distance, and division to tailor policy instruments to address integration challenges ranging from the …

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The world trade organization's Doha cotton initiative : a tale of two issues

Anderson, Kym - 2006

"Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton Initiative that involves two issues: cutting cotton subsidies and tariffs, and assisting farm productivity growth in Africa. The authors provide estimates of the potential...

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Sugar prices, labor income, and poverty in Brazil

Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2006

"This paper assesses the impact that a potential liberalization of sugar regimes in OECD countries could have on household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to 11 Brazilian states to capture the fact that some local...

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The impact of regional trade agreements and trade facilitation in the Middle East and North Africa region

Dennis, Allen Curtis - 2006

the region. Using the Global Trade Analysis Project (GTAP) model and database, both intra-regional integration and … integration with the European Union are observed to have a favorable impact on welfare in the MENA region. The welfare gains from … integrating with the European Union are observed to be at least twice as much as intra-regional integration. Furthermore, these …

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Global logistics indicators, supply chain metrics, and bilateral trade patterns

Hausman, Warren H. - 2005

"Past research into the determinants of international trade highlighted the importance of the basic spatial gravity model augmented by additional variables representing sources of friction. Studies modeled many sources of friction using various proxies, including indices based on expert judgment...

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