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The Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) is a new negotiation on cross border liberalization of goods and service flows going beyond WTO disciplines and focused on issues such as regulation and border controls. Though the US, Australia and other pacific countries are included, China is notable for...
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What is the impact of regulatory reforms that enhance credit market efficiency on children’s human capital? Using a parent-child panel dataset, we find that such reforms reduced children’s academic performance in low-income families. Consistent with the view that financial development...
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's technology gaps both with the U.S. and India between 1979 and 2008, comparing the technology level of these economies using a CES … India and the U.S. for the period before 2008. The pairwise gaps between the U.S. and China, and the U.S. and India remain … productivity than India over the period, the bilateral technology gap between China and India is still in India's favor. India had …
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cycle. Finally, recent policy initiatives suggest that India is poised to replace China as the dominant periphery country …
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What is the impact of trade policy in developing countries? We address the question in the context of interwar India …
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are against China; India, in turn, is the largest source of initiation against China by number of actions. Here we explore …
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In 1901, six Australian states joined together in political and economic union, creating an internal free trade area and adopting a common external tariff. This paper investigates the impact of federation on Australia's internal and international trade flows by studying changes in the...
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This paper identifies the effects of preferential trade agreements on trade volumes and prices using detailed trade and tariff data. It identifies demand elasticities by developing a difference in differences based method that exploits the fact that the additional wedge driven between...
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/capita, shares in world trade and market capitalization attributable both jointly and single to China, India, and Brazil (the three … time. In contrast the North‐China gap falls from 57.2 to 13.1 between 1990 and 2009, and India from 70.4 to 38.1 using … market exchange rates and from 23.4 to 5.5 for China and from 20.7 to 11.4 for India using PPP rates. We calculate the …
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This paper discusses the likely evolution of the trade and environment issue in the World Trade Organization after the upcoming ministerial meeting in Singapore this December. It makes a number of points. Progress within the GATT/WTO on this issue looks likely to be slow and painfully...
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