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Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic; Trade Integration and Economic Performance

Cas, Stephanie Medina; Swiston, Andrew; Barrot, Luis-Diego - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

This paper studies the potential for the export sector to play a more important role in promoting growth in Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic (CAPDR) through deeper intra-regional and global trade integration. CAPDR countries have enacted many free trade agreements and other...

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Economic Integration, Business Cycle, and Productivity in North America

Kose, M. Ayhan; Cardarelli, Roberto - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

This paper examines the effect of the major Canada-U.S. trade agreements on the dynamics of business cycles and productivity in Canada. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its predecessor, the Canada-U.S. Free Trade Agreement (CUSFTA), have led to a substantial expansion of trade...

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How Has Nafta Affected the Mexican Economy? Review and Evidence

Kose, M. Ayhan; Towe, Christopher M.; Meredith, Guy - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

This paper provides a comprehensive assessment of the impact of NAFTA on growth and business cycles in Mexico. The effect of the agreement in spurring a dramatic increase in trade and financial flows between Mexico and its NAFTA partners, and its impact on Mexican economic growth and business...

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Technological Adaptation, Trade, and Growth

Chong, Alberto; Zanforlin, L. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

This paper extends Grossman and Helpman’s seminal work (1991), and presents an endogenous growth model where innovations created in a high-tech sector may be assimilated or adapted by a low-tech sector. Applying a simple Heckscher-Ohlin framework, the effects of technological diffusion are...

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Does Trade and Technology Transmission Facilitate Inequality Convergence? An inquiry Into the Role of Technology in Reducing the Poverty of Nations

Das, Gouranga Gopal - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

Based on stylized evidence showing variation of the Gini coefficient of income inequality across skill cohorts and on the rapid rise in trade in technology-intensive goods, the ripple effects of technology transmission and income inequality are explored in a global Computable General Equilibrium...

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Leadership Contestability, Monopolistic Rents and Growth

Piazza, Roberto - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2011

I construct an endogenous growth model where R&D is carried out at the industry level in a game of innovation between … leaders and followers. Innovation costs for followers are assumed to increase with the technological lag from leaders. We … innovate in equilibrium, in an attempt to force followers out of the innovation game. Second, policies (such as patents) that …

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The United States and the New Regionalism/ Bilateralism

Yang, Yongzheng; Hilaire, Alvin - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

Current U.S. trade policy stresses establishing free trade areas (FTAs) with partners spanning the globe. Motivations include enhancing goods and services trade; stimulating investment flows; extending standards on intellectual property rights, labor, and the environment; and addressing...

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Fiscal Implications of Multilateral Tariff Cuts

Sadikov, Azim M.; Lankes, Hans P.; Smith, Dustin; … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006

The paper contributes to the discussion about the revenue implications of trade reform by assessing the approximate fiscal revenue impact of different liberalization formulae under consideration in multilateral trade negotiations for a group of low- and middle-income countries. The study applies...

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The WTO and the Poorest Countries; The Stark Reality

Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

Small and poor countries pose a challenge for the World Trade Organization (WTO). These countries have acquired a significant say in WTO decision-making. However, they have limited ability to engage in the reciprocity game that is at the heart of the WTO, and have limited interests in the...

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Comesa and Sadc; Prospects and Challenges for Regional Trade Integration

Khandelwal, Padamja - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

Regional integration has been seen in Africa as a means of encouraging trade and securing economies of scale. This paper examines in detail the prospects and challenges for trade expansion in the two most prominent arrangements in eastern and southern Africa: the Common Market for Eastern and...

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