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Who benefits and how much? : how gender affects welfare impacts of a booming textile industry
Nicita, Alessandro - 2003
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010523406
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Vertical and Regional Integration to Promote African Textiles and Clothing Exports : A Close Knit Family?
World Bank - 2012
result, Africa as a whole remains a net importer of textiles and clothing even though it is a net exporter of cotton. The … (until 2008) to protect their domestic textiles and clothing industries. These safeguards provide a brief opportunity for sub …-Saharan African producers to integrate their textiles and clothing industries both domestically and regionally. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553245
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Assessing the impact of political economy factors on rules of origin under NAFTA
Portugal-Pérez, Alberto - 2009
"Rules of origin are legitimate policy instruments to prevent trade deflection in a preferential trade agreement short of a customs union. Trade deflection takes place when a product imported into the preferential trade agreement through the member with the lowest external tariff is transhipped...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011394142
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Regionalism in standards : good or bad for trade?
Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang - 2004
"Regional agreements on standards have been largely ignored by economists and unconditionally blessed by multilateral trade rules. Chen and Mattoo find, theoretically and empirically, that such agreements increase trade between participating countries but not necessarily with the rest of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522877
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Expanding bank outreach through retail partnerships : correspondent banking in Brazil
Kumar, Anjali (contributor) - 2006
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522325
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Retail Payment Costs and Savings in Kosovo
Central Bank of Kosovo (CBK); World Bank - 2022
This report is based on a study of the costs of retail payments in Kosovo, using a methodology (A Practical Guide for Measuring Retail Payment Costs) developed by the World Bank's Payment System Development Group (PSDG), part of the Finance, Competitiveness, and Innovation Global Practice. The...
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Estimating household responses to trade reforms : net consumers and net producers in rural Mexico
Porto, Guido Gustavo - 2005
"This paper explores an empirical methodology to assess the impacts of trade reforms on household behavior in developing countries. It focuses on consumption and income responses: when price reforms take place, households modify consumption and production decisions and local labor markets...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522505
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The economic consequences of health shocks
Wagstaff, Adam - 2005
"While there is a great deal of anecdotal evidence on the economic effects of adverse health shocks, there is relatively little hard empirical evidence. The author builds on recent empirical work to explore in the context of postreform Vietnam two related issues: (1) how far household income and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522556
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Financial Consumer Protection and Fintech : An Overview of New Manifestations of Consumer Risks and Emerging Regulatory Approaches
World Bank - 2022
This note provides: (1) an overview of new manifestations of consumer risks that are significant and cross-cutting across four key fintech products: digital microcredit, P2PL, investment-based crowdfunding, and e-money; and (2) examples of emerging regulatory approaches to target such risks....
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