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"The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's trade performance over the past two decades has been disappointing …
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Stronger regional integration has been a policy priority in Africa for several decades. Countries in Africa have …. This report looks at the monitoring of regional integration in Africa and argues that more effective monitoring processes … three presents an overview of regional trade indicators that are currently used by policy makers in Sub-Saharan Africa …
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This report is structured in three volumes: competition provisions; environment provisions; and labor mobility provisions. The main messages of this three volumes are as follows: 1) competition laws and policies are increasingly being established at the regional level, as they could be...
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This report is structured in three volumes: competition provisions; environment provisions; and labor mobility provisions. The main messages of this three volumes are as follows: 1) competition laws and policies are increasingly being established at the regional level, as they could be...
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"This paper examines the effect of regionalism on unilateral trade liberalization using industry-level data on applied most-favored nation tariffs and bilateral preferences for ten Latin American countries from 1990 to 2001. The findings show that preferential tariff reduction in a given sector...
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How firms react to a given shock may depend on the degree to which rivals are present and on whether potentially viable entrants to that market exist. A preferred supplier market presence and threat of entry lessen a nonmember country's price reaction to most-favored-nation trade liberalization...
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result, Africa as a whole remains a net importer of textiles and clothing even though it is a net exporter of cotton. The … future of apparel exporters in sub-Saharan Africa is, however, rather uncertain as they face two major challenges for their …
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Africa's growing demand for food has been met increasingly by imports from the global market. This, coupled with rising … impacts on poverty. The report highlights the range of barriers to food trade in Africa along the entire value chain. The … that will arise in dealing with the political economy constraints that have until now blocked the capacity of Africa to …
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