capital with labor, but instead also increase employment, especially for production workers. Reduction in other tariff rates …

We demonstrate that durable MFN tariff elimination affects trade patterns through several layers, which generates non …-linear impacts. First, complete tariff elimination results in a large additional trade gains over and above tariff reductions. Second …, commitment to durable tariff elimination, through WTO bindings, further boosts both imports and exports of ITA members. The …

tariff rates at the country-industry level for a broad range of countries over the past two decades. We then explore both the … estimated at around 1 percent, on average, which do not factor in the presumably larger gains from removing existing non-tariff …

revenue by the equivalent of 1 percent to 4 percent of individual countries’ GDP. This paper proposes tax and tariff reforms … effects of the tax and tariff systems and underpin higher rates of sustainable growth …

This paper estimates the impact of the tariff liberalization in four largest CARICOM countries (Barbados, Guyana … external tariff, which eroded preferences enjoyed by member imports, increased the ratio of imports from non-member countries …; there is little evidence that tariff reductions had an impact on member imports. Findings suggest that in Trinidad and …

fact a more probable outcome following domestic tariff liberalization …

This paper investigates the role of structural reforms -financial reforms, trade liberalization, and privatization- as … financial liberalization and privatization. These results are robust to different measures of reforms, split samples, and …