cut applied tariffs, particularly on agricultural imports. "--World Bank web site …

of competition and, consequently, assesses their net impact on innovation. He finds that reducing tariffs and enacting … price competition in the domestic economy. The net impact that lower tariffs have on new product and process development …

lockdowns in early 2020 with varying frequencies and time periods. While the exact nature and duration of these lockdowns varied … time within each country as well as across countries. In countries like Nepal, India, and Sri Lanka, with an extended … period of restrictions imposed through national or local directives at different points in time, mobility had not returned to …