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Preferential Trade Agreements in the Asia-Pacific Region
Feridhanusetyawan, Tubagus - 2005
Preferential trade agreements (PTAs) in the Asia-Pacific region have proliferated rapidly over the past five years and are creating a complex web of intersecting bilateral and regional trade agreements. This paper describes the proliferation of these PTAs, discusses their characteristics and...
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Is Regionalism Simply a Diversion? : Evidence from the Evolution of the EC and EFTA
Bayoumi, Tamim - 1995
This paper considers the impact on trade of preferential arrangements in Europe since the 1950s. Using a first difference version of the gravity model, we find that the EEC and EFTA altered the pattern of international trade. We also find evidence of trade diversion in several cases, notably...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014397839
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The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and its Rules of Origin : Generosity Undermined?
Subramanian, Arvind - 2002
This paper describes the United States recently enacted Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and assesses its quantitative impact on African exports. The AGOA expands the scope of preferential access of Africa''s exports to the United States in key areas such as clothing. However, its medium...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399562
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Can Regional Integration Accelerate Development in Africa? : CGE Model Simulations of the Impact of the SADC FTAon the Republic of Madagascar
Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2007
Madagascar plans to start phasing out its customs tariffs on imports from the Southern African Development Community in 2007. This paper uses a CGE model to evaluate the impact of the SADC FTA on Madagascar economy. The results suggest that the SADC FTA would only have a limited impact on...
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Comesa and Sadc : Prospects and Challenges for Regional Trade Integration
Khandelwal, Padamja - 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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India’s growth spillovers to South Asia
Ding, Ding; Masha, Iyabo - 2012
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India's Growth Spillovers to South Asia
Masha, Iyabo - 2012
This study investigates the role of India''s economy in explaining the observed growth in South Asia, taking into … India''s bilateral trade and financial linkages with South Asian countries (SAC) are relatively weak, the paper analyses the … spillover effects by focusing on growth more generally with India''s growth as an explanatory variable. The results of the panel …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396926
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In Search of WTO Trade Effects : Preferential Trade Agreements Promote Trade Strongly, But Unevenly
Eicher, Theo S. - 2009
The literature measuring the impact of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTA) and WTO membership on trade flows has produced remarkably diverse results. Rose''s (2004) seminal paper reports a range of specifications that show no WTO effects, but Subramanian and Wei (2007) contend that he does not...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402393
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ASEAN : A Chronicle of Shifting Trade Exposure and Regional Integration
Kalra, Sanjay - 2010
The paper characterizes trade exposure and regional integration in six ASEAN economies during 1997-2008. For this, the paper uses the 2000 Asian Input Output Tables which are extrapolated using National Income Accounts and COMTRADE data. On the demand side, the paper shows that the level and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402867
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Trade and Integration in the Caribbean
Egoumé-Bossogo, Philippe - 2002
This paper analyzes trade in the Caribbean community (CARICOM) using a gravity model framework. The paper seeks to shed light on the dynamics of trade among CARICOM member countries, as well with the rest of world over 1980–99. Overall, the results show that intra-CARICOM trade has increased,...
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