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to the World Trade Organization (WTO). It provides a consolidated perspective about insurance services in Laos, with … particular reference to the impact of possible Government commitments to liberalizing the insurance industry as part of its WTO … (GATS) of the WTO. The implications of liberalization for the insurance industry are then considered and reforms supporting …
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This article describes the macroeconomic model used in an ongoing study of technology policies and North-South relations. Other aspects of the study have been described elsewhere [1,2]. We examine here the rationale for the theoretical structure used in the model, the details of the equations,...
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national and world welfare. …
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This paper argues that regulatory measures affect the fixed cost of entering a market as well as the variable costs of servicing that market. Moreover, differences in regulation among countries often imply that firms have to incur entry costs in every new market. Indicators of regulatory...
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This paper explores a 3×3 full-employment H-O-S model with tariff-protection in the capital-intensive import-competing sector and inflows of FDI (foreign direct investment) to an export sector (using foreign capital as a specific input) within the ‘foreign enclave’ of a small open...
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review of significant paper in the vast literature on the history of international trade from the end of the Second World War … until the present, focusing especially, on the beginning of the Doha Ministerial Conference as part of World Trade …
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One of the roots of the current global imbalances resides in the asymmetry of the international trade flows under the constraints of maintaining non-tariff barriers and of protectionism revival. Trade liberalization is critical for restoring the financial global equilibrium. The study is...
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The study provide an analysis of the macroeconomic issues surrounding the reforms needed to meet the country’s growth target, as well as to identify existing policy and structural constraints and macroeconomic policy reforms measures that would help to remove those constraints. The indicative...
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A two country, three sector hybrid model of structural change with distortionary government policies is used to quantify the impact of international trade and trade reform for industrialization. The model features Arming- ton motivated trade in agriculture and industry, and a novel...
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industry-level assessments of tariff and subsidy reforms that will both support the country’s WTO accession negotiations and …
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