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The United States - Mexico - Canada Agreement (USMCA) was signed on November 30, 2018 and aims to replace and modernize the North-American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA). This paper uses a global, multisector, computable-general-equilibrium model to provide an analytical assessment of five key...
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The European Union’s Association Agreements with several countries in the Southern Mediterranean Region (SMR) aim to promote deeper economic integration between the SMR and the EU by establishing a free trade area in twelve years. Because a large share of the SMR countries’ total imports...
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The lack of a clear link between general economic fundamentals and export diversification indicators in the literature … traditional methodologies: using export categories that lead to diversification (for example, manufactures) as dependent variables …
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export to foreign markets directly, smaller firms typically export via intermediaries (indirect exporting). I document a set …
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This paper analyzes the appropriate choice of an exchange rate regime in agricultural commodity-exporting economies. In an open economy model that incorporates key structural characteristics of agricultural commodity exporters including dual labor markets, the benefits of exchange rate...
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maintain export earnings. But low growth in factor productivity in Africa compared to competitors caused declining export … comparative advantage needs to be supported by productivity enhancing innovations in food and export commodities, a stable price …
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This paper reviews Nigeria’s non-oil export performance during the period 1970-90, analyzes the factors underlying the … distinguishing feature of the analysis is the incorporation of the effect of domestic demand in the export supply equation for … demand competes with export demand. The results provide evidence of the adverse effects of restrictive government policies on …
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The study reveals agricultural import restrictions are widely applied in Asia, but that Japan and Korea impose lower average tariffs and nontariff barriers with less frequency than most Asian countries. It also finds several low and middle-income countries enforce relatively low protection for...
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This paper examines the composition of primary commodity exports by industrial countries and contrasts this composition with that of the exports by developing countries. Both the share of industrial countries’ commodity exports in world commodity exports, as well as in their own total...
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