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"This paper briefly reviews new indices of trade restrictiveness and trade facilitation that have been developed at the World Bank. The paper also compares the trade impact of different types of trade restrictions applied at the border with the effects of domestic policies that affect trade...
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"Regulation is purportedly enacted to serve specific social purposes. In reality, however, it follows a more complex political economy process, where legitimate social goals are mixed with the objectives of particular interest groups. Whatever its justification and objectives, regulation can...
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"This paper assesses the impact that a potential liberalization of sugar regimes in OECD countries could have on … prices. They then simultaneously estimate the impact that changes in domestic sugar prices have on regional wages and … world sugar prices. Results suggest that workers in the sugar sector and in sugar-producing regions have better employment …
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"Sugar exporters of the Caribbean depend on preferential sales of sugar to the European Union and United States at … prices that are two to three times the world market price. Without these preferences, sugar export revenues would decline … significantly. These preferences are likely to erode in the next several years as the sugar programs of both the European Union and …
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