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Connecting to Compete 2010 : Trade Logistics in the Global Economy--The Logistics Performance Index and Its Indicators

Arvis, Jean-Francois - 2010

forwarders and express carriers, the LPI is a benchmarking tool developed by the World Bank that measures performance along the … logistics performance. The World Bank conducts the survey every two years. The 2010 LPI also provides a snapshot of selected …

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Connecting to Compete 2007 : Trade Logistics in the Global Economy--The Logistics Performance Index and Its Indicators

Arvis, Jean-Francois - 2007

predictability and reliability of supply chains is increasingly important in a world of just-in-time production sharing. Costs …

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Connecting to Compete 2014 : Trade Logistics in the Global Economy--The Logistics Performance Index and Its Indicators

Arvis, Jean-Francois - 2014

Improving logistics performance is at the core of the economic growth and competitiveness agenda. Policymakers globally recognize the logistics sector as one of their key pillars for development. Trade powerhouses in Europe like the Netherlands or in developing countries like Vietnam or...

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Connecting to Compete 2018 : Trade Logistics in the Global Economy

Arvis, Jean-Francois - 2018

This is the sixth edition of Connecting to Compete, a report summarizing the findings from the new dataset for the Logistics Performance Index (LPI) and its component indicators. The 2018 LPI also provides expanded data on supply chain performance and constraints in more than 100 countries,...

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Is the WTO Passï¿½?

Bagwell, Kyle - 2015

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The GATT's Starting Point : Tariff Levels Circa 1947

Bown, Chad P. - 2016

How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this starting point is key to determining how successful the GATT has been in bringing down trade barriers. If the average tariff level was about 40 percent, as commonly reported, the...

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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy

Bown, Chad P. - 2016

represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …

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What's Left for the WTO?

Bown, Chad P. - 2015

Suppose that when addressing the question of "what's left for the WTO?," tariff negotiators relied not on the agenda established in 2001 but instead on the terms-of-trade theory of trade agreements to identify negotiating priorities. This paper uses the lens of the terms-of-trade theory to...

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China's Export Growth and the China Safeguard : Threats to the World Trading System?

Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith - 2010

negotiation, formation, and rules of international trade agreements. Among other changes, China's 2001 accession to the World … explanations for these puzzling results as well as potential implications for the sustainability of the rules of the world trading …

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