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The Impact of Transparency on Foreign Direct Investment

World Trade Organization - 2001

Non-transparency is a term given in this paper to a set of government policies that increase the risk and uncertainty faced by economic actors foreign investors. This increase in risk and uncertainty stems from the presence of bribery and corruption, unstable economic policies, weak and poorly...

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The evolution of services trade policy since the great recession

World Trade Organization - 2020

Are changes in services markets provoking reform, restrictions, or inertia? To address this question, we draw upon a new World Bank-WTO Services Trade Policy Database (STPD) to analyse the services trade policies of 68 economies in 23 subsectors across five broad areas—financial services,...

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Trade Remedy Provisions in Regional Trade Agreements

World Trade Organization - 2007

This paper maps and examines the provisions on anti-dumping, countervailing duties and safeguards in seventy … members. In the case of anti-dumping for example, some provisions increase de minimis volume and dumping margin requirements … and shorten the duration for applying anti-dumping duties relative to the WTO Anti-dumping Agreement. In similar fashion …

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Why are Trade Agreements more Attractive in the Presence of Foreign Direct Investment?

World Trade Organization - 1998

This paper argues that interests of nationals and owners of home-based foreign capital in the formation of a Trade Agreements (TA) are not antagonistic, except under rather particular assumptions on initial tariffs among potential members. Further, if initial tariffs are endogenously determined...

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International Trade in Travel and Tourism Services : Economic Impact and Policy Responses during the COVID-19 Crisis

World Trade Organization - 2020

In this paper, we investigate tourism-related policy approaches that WTO member countries adopted in the early weeks of the COVID-19 crisis. We highlight the need for stakeholders to coordinate their responses in order to mitigate the negative crisis effects and better prepare the sector for the...

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The Role of WTO Committees through the Lens of Specific Trade Concerns Raised in the TBT Committee

World Trade Organization - 2020

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Trade Policy Substitution : Theory and Evidence from Specific Trade Concerns

World Trade Organization - 2014

We investigate to what extent the probability that a Specific Trade Concern (STC) is raised in the WTO against a Member in a given sector is affected by past reductions in applied tariffs. Employing an identification strategy based on “new measures”, we find evidence of a substitution of...

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Reducing Trade Costs in LDCs: The Role of Aid for Trade

World Trade Organization - 2016

This study analyses the role of Aid for Trade in reducing trade costs in least developed countries (LDCs). The analysis builds on questionnaires and case stories submitted as part of the Aid-for-Trade monitoring and evaluation exercise for the Fifth Global Review of Aid for Trade. Trade costs...

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Has the Multilateral Hong Kong Ministerial Decision on Duty Free Quota Free Market Access Provided a Breakthrough in the Least-Developed Countries' Export Performance?

World Trade Organization - 2016

This paper assesses the impact of the 2005 multilateral Hong Kong Ministerial decision on duty free quota free (DFQF) market access for products originating in Least developed countries (LDCs) on the latter's export performance. The analysis is conducted over a sample of 41 LDCs, with data...

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Improving the Availability of Trade Finance in Developing Countries: An Assessment of Remaining Gaps

World Trade Organization - 2015

While conditions in trade finance markets returned to normality in the main routes of trade, the structural difficulties of poor countries in accessing trade finance have not disappeared – and might have been worsened during and after the global financial crisis. There is a consistent flow of...

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