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The role of trade and offshoring in the determination of child labour
Cigno, Alessandro; Giovannetti, Giorgia; Sabani, Laura - 2015
Incorporating family decisions in a two-period-model of the world economy, we show that trade liberalization may reduce …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010488142
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Developing Countries and Monitoring WTO Commitments in Response to the Global Economic Crisis
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
the World Bank in response to the global economic crisis of 2008-2009. Given trends in the imposition of new crisis …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976545
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The World Trade Organization and Antidumping in Developing Countries
Bown, Chad P. - 2016
Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747971
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Doha Merchandise Trade Reform : What's at Stake for Developing Countries?
Anderson, Kym - 2016
liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748077
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Use of Imported Inputs and the Cost of Importing : Evidence from Developing Countries
Islam, Asif - 2017
For a representative sample of manufacturing firms in 26 countries, this paper shows that changes in the cost of importing over time are significantly and negatively correlated with changes in the percentage of firms' material inputs that are of foreign origin. Furthermore, the paper shows that...
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How Do Governments Respond to Food Price Spikes? Lessons from the Past
Anderson, Kym - 2017
trade between nations can play in bringing stability to the world?s food markets. More effort appears to be needed before a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976397
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Estimating Trade Restrictiveness Indices
Kee, Hiau Looi - 2016
focuses on market access and summarizes the trade distortions imposed by the rest of the world on each country`s export bundle … manufacturing protection. Nontariff barriers contribute more than 70 percent on average to world protection, underlying their …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748086
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Inequality and trade policy : pro-poor bias of contemporary trade restrictions
Ural Marchand, Beyza - 2019
This paper studies the pro-poor bias of contemporary trade policy in India by estimating the household welfare effects of eliminating the current protection structure. The elimination of a pro-poor trade policy is expected to have lower welfare gains or higher welfare loss at the low end of the...
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Implications of the Doha Market Access Proposals for Developing Countries
Laborde, David - 2017
This paper uses detailed data on bound and applied tariffs to assess the consequences of the World Trade Organization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975975
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Developing Countries, Dispute Settlement, and the Advisory Centre on WTO Law
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
Critical appraisals of the current and potential benefits from developing country engagement in the World Trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976741