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Services Trade and Growth
Hoekman, Bernard; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012
The competitiveness of firms in open economies is increasingly determined by access to low-cost and high-quality producer services - telecommunications, transport and distribution services, financial intermediation, etc. This paper discusses the role of services in economic growth, focusing in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552252
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Currency Undervaluation and Sovereign Wealth Funds : A New Role for the World Trade Organization
Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - 2012
dealing with undervalued exchange rates. This paper proposes new rules in the World Trade Organization to discipline cases of … WTO's enforcement mechanism is credible and effective. The World Trade Organization would not be involved in exchange rate … advantage of the two institutions, with the International Monetary Fund providing the essential technical expertise in the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552459
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The Doha Development Agenda : What's on the Table?
Martin, Will; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012
The outlines of a potential agreement, emerging after seven years of negotiations, imply that Doha offers three key benefits: reduced uncertainty of market access in goods and services; improved market access in agriculture and manufacturing; and the mobilization of resources to deal with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552463
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Multilateralism beyond Doha
Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - 2012
There is a fundamental shift taking place in the world economy to which the multilateral trading system has failed to … interests largely in the rich countries, is running out of steam; (ii) the world economy is moving broadly from conditions of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552524
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Do Institutions Matter More for Services?
Amin, Mohammad; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012
Recent empirical research has focused on the role of institutions in overall economic performance. This paper examines the impact of institutions on the relative performance of the service sector. Through cross-country level and growth regressions it establishes the following stylized fact:...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012553852
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Services in a Development Round : Three Goals and Three Proposals
Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012
The benefits of services trade reform are huge but services negotiations in the World Trade Organization (WTO) are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554175
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Policy Barriers to International Trade in Services : Evidence from a New Database
Borchert, Ingo; Gootiiz, Batshur; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012
Surprisingly little is known about policies that affect international trade in services. Previous analyses have focused on policy commitments made by countries in international agreements but these commitments do not in many cases reflect actual policy. This paper describes a new initiative to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554540
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A "Greenprint" for International Cooperation on Climate Change
Mattoo, Aaditya; Subramanian, Arvind - 2013
industrialized and developing countries. To overcome these "narrative," "adding-up," and "new world" problems, respectively, this …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559471
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Regionalism in Standards : Good or Bad for Trade?
Chen, Maggie Xiaoyang; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2013
countries but not necessarily with the rest of the world. Adopting a common standard in a region-that is, harmonization …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559887
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Internal borders and migration in India
Kone, Zovanga L.; Liu, Maggie Y.; Mattoo, Aaditya; … - In: Journal of economic geography 18 (2018) 4, pp. 729-759
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