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place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …
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The free flow of data across borders underpins today's globalized economy. But the flow of personal data outside the jurisdiction of national regulators also raises concerns about the protection of privacy. Addressing these legitimate concerns without undermining international integration is a...
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A structural gravity model is used to estimate barriers to services trade across many sectors, countries, and time. Since the disaggregated output data needed to infer border barriers flexibly are often missing for services, this paper derives a novel methodology for projecting output data. The...
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integrate faster internally than vis-?-vis the rest of the world: policies applied to trade with other ASEAN countries were … virtually the same as those applied to trade with rest of the world. Moreover, the recent commitments scheduled under AFAS did …
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A new Services Trade Restrictions Database collects and makes publicly available information on services trade policy assembled in a comparable manner across 103 countries, five sectors (telecommunications, finance, transportation, retail and professional services) and the key modes of service...
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global pandemic scenario sees gross domestic product fall by 2 percent below the benchmark for the world, 2.5 percent for … world, in an amplified pandemic scenario in which containment is assumed to take longer and which now seems more likely. The …
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Decades of services trade negotiations have produced a plethora of rules and commitments but limited real liberalization. One reason is a form of "negotiating tunnel vision," which has led to a focus on reciprocal market opening rather than on creating the regulatory preconditions for...
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Since the Global Financial Crisis, world trade growth has been subdued and lagging slightly behind growth of gross … trade-income relationship, and then investigates its consequences for economic growth. On the demand side, sluggish world …
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This paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. The analysis uses …
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This paper examines how policy governing the liner shipping sector affects maritime transport costs and seaborne trade flows. The paper uses a novel data set and finds that restrictions, particularly on foreign investment, increase maritime transport costs, strongly but unevenly. The...
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