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Trade, Growth, and Poverty; A Selective Survey
Berg, Andrew; Krueger, Anne O. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects of openness on poverty in two components: the effect of openness on average income growth, and the effect on distribution for a given growth rate. Evidence from a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263804
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The Export Performance of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1970-19+L69390: A Survey
Greene, Joshua E. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992
The export performance of Sub-Saharan Africa has lagged behind that of developing countries in other regions for the past two decades, and total export proceeds have fallen significantly since 1980. Many factors explain this outcome, including continued concentration in slowly-growing non-fuel...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005264058
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Assessing Protectionism and Subsidies in Agriculture; A Gravity Approach
Paiva, Claudio - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
support claims that protectionism and distortive subsidies to agriculture remain widespread in more developed nations, which …-country protectionism are also found to be relatively closed to agricultural trade. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605018
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Protectionist Responses to the Crisis; Damage Observed in Product-Level Trade
McDonald, Bradley J.; Henn, Christian - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011
found to be responsible for 2/3 of the trade decline due to crisis protectionism, but their exports also absorbed 2/3 of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009151205
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Factor Immobility and Regional Impacts of Trade Liberalization Evidenceon Poverty From India
Topalova, Petia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
This paper uses the 1991 Indian trade liberalization to measure the impact of trade liberalization on poverty, and to … examine the mechanisms underpinning this impact. Variation in sectoral composition across districts and liberalization … more exposed to liberalization were concentrated, experienced slower decline in poverty and lower consumption growth. The …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008671312
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Does Import Protection Discourage Exports?
Tokarick, Stephen - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper points out that while many developing countries seek to increase their export earnings, they have not embraced fully the notion that their own pattern of import protection hurts their export performance. The paper quantifies the extent to which import protection acts as a tax on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599612
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How does a domestic tax reform effect protection against imports? The case of the Republic of Madagascar
Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2008
In 2008, Madagascar reformed its domestic tax system. Because the excise duties and VAT regimes were reformed, the taxation of imports has changed. This paper quantifies how the reform changes the protection against imports and the fiscal revenues from taxation of imports. It shows that, even if...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012677611
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The Pitfalls of Protectionism: Import Substitution vs. Export-Oriented Industrial Policy
Cherif, Reda - 2024
needed to develop some new capabilities and industries, trade protectionism is neither a necessary nor a sufficient tool and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015058581
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Retaliation through Temporary Trade Barriers
Furceri, Davide - 2023
Are Temporary Trade Barriers (TTBs) introduced for strategic reasons? To answer this question, we construct a novel sectoral measure of retaliation using daily bilateral data on TTB responses in 1220 subsectors across a panel of 25 advanced and emerging market economies over 1989-2019. Stylized...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015059447
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Pacific Island Countries: In Search of a Trade Strategy
Chen, Hong; Rauqeuqe, Lanieta; Singh, Shiu raj; Wu, Yiqun; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2014
International trade is vital for economic prosperity in Pacific island countries, but their trade performance has been weak over the past decade with the exception of resource-rich countries. Small country size and remoteness from global economic centers may have contributed to this relatively...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010959471