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Special and differential treatment for developing countries

Ornelas, Emanuel - 2016

Special and Differential Treatment for Developing Countries (SDT) constitutes a central feature of the GATT/WTO system. Its formal goal is to foster export-led growth in developing countries. Its theoretical foundations and empirical support are, however, weak at best. In particular, SDT...

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Economic liberalization and savings rates

Mansori, Kashif S. - 2001

This paper considers the possibility that economic liberalization, by which is meant a reduction in tariffs, quotas, capital controls, and other government distortions of international transactions, may reduce private savings rates. A two stage approach is used to analyze a panel data set...

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Diversification, Dutch disease, and economic growth : options for Uganda

Thorvaldur Gylfason; Nganou, Jean-Pascal Nguessa - 2014 - This Version: November 14, 2014

Natural resource discoveries, even when fairly modest in terms of the revenues they are expected to generate, can have significant macroeconomic effects and implications for the conduct of fiscal and monetary policy. In this respect, Uganda is no different from other oil-rich countries. In five...

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Role of production networks in sustaining and rebalancing Asia's growth

Thorbecke, Willem; Bhattacharyay, Biswanath - 2012

. On the supply side, the best way to rebalance growth is to increase productivity in order to raise wage rates and living …

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Tariff liberalization and trade integration of emerging countries

Disdier, Anne-Célia; Fontagné, Lionel Gérard; … - 2013 - This version: October 2013

We investigate how tariff liberalization has affected exporting in emerging countries. We use a highly disaggregated bilateral measure of market access to compare tariffs applied in 1996 and 2006, which includes the timing of the Uruguay Round and episodes of bilateral liberalization. Our...

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Agricultural exports, tariffs and growth

Azarnert, Leonid V. - 2014

This article presents a Ricardian model of trade with learning-by-doing to study the effect of barriers to trade in products with low growth potential on the long-run economic growth. The model shows that, when elasticity of demand for the product with a lower learning potential is lower than...

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An empirical growth model for major oil exporters

Esfahani, Hadi Salehi; Mohaddes, Kamiar; Pesaran, M. Hashem - 2012

This paper develops a long-run growth model for a major oil exporting economy and derives conditions under which oil revenues are likely to have a lasting impact. This approach contrasts with the standard literature on the "Dutch disease" and the "resource curse", which primarily focuses on...

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Firm-productivity and export under non-constant marginal costs

Mukherjee, Arijit - 2016

Recent theoretical research shows that exporters are more productive than nonexporters. We show that this result holds almost trivially for the case of constant marginal cost of production, as mainly assumed in the literature, but it may not hold true if the marginal cost is not constant. Our...

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Productivity differences in OECD countries

Pascual, Antonio I. Garcia - 2000

This paper investigates cross-country productivity convergence at a sectoral level using multivariate unit-root tests …

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Trade liberalization, input intermediaries and firm productivity : evidence from China

Defever, Fabrice; Imbruno, Michele; Kneller, Richard - 2019

We investigate theoretically and empirically the role of wholesalers in mediating the productivity effects of trade … liberalization. Intermediaries provide indirect access to foreign produced inputs. The productivity effects of input tariff cuts on … firms experience productivity gains from reducing input tariffs if trade intermediation of foreign inputs within their …

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