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China'S Integration Into the World Economy : Implications for Developing Countries
Yang, Yongzheng - 2003
Although the rest of the world had waited a long time for China to open up, feelings were mixed when it actually did … (WTO), many of its trading partners are increasingly concerned that China’s competition in the world goods and capital … markets may adversely affect their own growth prospects. This paper examines the implications of China’s WTO accession for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403900
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Recent Trade Policies and An Approach to Further Reform in the Baltics, Russia, and Other Countries of the Former Soviet Union
Leidy, Michael P. - 1996
This paper reviews the extent to which the Fund’s trade policy advice to the Baltic countries, Russia and other …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396086
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Adjusting to New Realities : MENA the Uruguay Round, and the Eu-Mediterranean Initiative
Fennell, Susan - 1997
This paper addresses concerns that the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region, with the exception of the GCC economies, has lagged behind in trade liberalization. This delay has adversely affected production efficiency and consumer welfare and could reduce the region’s ability to attract...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400709
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Trade in the WAEMU : Developments and Reform Opportunities
Weisfeld, Hans - 2008
This paper provides an overview of trade reform in the West African Economic and Monetary Union (WAEMU) since 1996 and a quantitative assessment of potential effects on trade patterns and tariff revenue of the current reform agenda. Despite evidence of significant trade complementarities within...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403054
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Implications of the Uruguay Round for Kenya
Chandha, Rupa - 1996
This paper studies the implications of the Uruguay Round for Kenya’s own trade regime and its external trading environment. The analysis indicates that Kenya did not undertake significant liberalization commitments under the Uruguay Round. There are however, several effects on Kenya’s...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396154
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Trade Policy and Macroeconomic Balance in the World Economy
International Monetary Fund - 1988
The paper explores the relationship between trade policy and current accounts. The effect on the current account of a change in protection at home and then abroad is analyzed, assuming that the exchange rate floats. The “savings-and-investment approach” is used. It shows that there is no...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396105
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Trade Policy with Heterogeneous Traders : Do Quotas Get a Bum Rap?
Krishna, Kala - 2007
This paper considers the effects of trade policy-tariffs and quotas-when importing is done by competitive traders who are identical ex ante but differ ex post. We show that the standard equivalence results no longer hold and the conventional ranking of tariffs and quotas is turned on its head:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014399634
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Trade, Growth, and Poverty : A Selective Survey
Berg, Andrew - 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/10014404018
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Trade in the Mashreq : An Empirical Examination
Blavy, Rodolphe - 2001
This paper provides a framework for understanding trade patterns in the Mashreq. An augmented gravity model is used to compare actual with expected levels of trade. Trade barriers, political uncertainty, and over-appreciation of domestic currencies seem to explain low levels of international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403536
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China's Trade Flows : Changing Price Sensitivies and the Reform Process
Dayal-Gulati, Anuradha - 1999
Over the past 20 years, the Chinese authorities have undertaken wide-ranging reforms of their exchange and trade systems that have steadily reduced the role of planning and increased the importance of market forces. As these reforms have taken root, relative prices and domestic and foreign...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403429