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multilateral cooperation when countries are linked by international trade flows and transboundary pollution. …
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Starting from the observation that intra-regional trade flows in the Mashreq are abnormally low, the paper reviews the … existing trade agreements and the alternative options that the countries of the region could embrace in order to deepen their … trade relations. This discussion is set against the background of two major factors that are shaping the region's trading …
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This paper overviews and analyzes Egypt's service sector, its commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in …
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conflicts. Trade and democracy are traditionally thought of as goods, both in themselves, and because they reduce the …
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We examine the endogenous formation of trade blocs when markets are characterized by imperfect competition and … simple model of intra-industry trade between three ex-ante symmetric countries, we find that, while 'pure' customs unions … - entailing tariff cooperation only - are stepping stones towards global free trade, 'impure' customs unions - involving the …
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This paper illustrates that an international permit trading system may hurt relatively poor countries by making associated economic activities unaffordable. A model is constructed in which the free market solution is Pareto inefficient as a result of pollution. The introduction of tradable...
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This paper argues that previous empirical work on the explanation for Hong Kong's export Growth, by focusing on the values of the estimated price and income elasticities, has failed to provide a full account. It is necessarily also to look at changes in the explanatory variables in the model,...
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number of firm characteristics are found to imply significantly different financing constraints: government ownership, trade …
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Do countries with lower policy-induced barriers to international trade grow faster, once other relevant country … diverse interpretations. In many cases, the indicators of "openness" used by researchers are poor measures of trade barriers … the link between trade policy and growth have serious shortcomings. Papers that we review include Dollar (1992), Ben …
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The role of education, technological diffusion and trade is investigated for 11 MENA countries for 1980-1992, using …
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