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Doha Merchandise Trade Reform : What???s at Stake for Developing Countries?
Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - 2012
liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …
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Trade and Employment : Stylized Facts and Research Findings
Hoekman, Bernard; Winters, L. Alan - 2012
subset of the literature focusing on trade policy and integration into the world economy. Although in the longer run trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554135
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Global Trade Watch 2017 : Trade Defies Policy Uncertainty-Will It Last?
Constantinescu, Cristina - 2018
contributions to global trade growth have come from East Asian countries in the developing world and the Euro area in the developed … world. Merchandise trade, which in recent years has been less resilient than services trade, picked up, growing by 4 …
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Welfare and Poverty Effects of Global Agricultural and Trade Policies Using the Linkage Model
Anderson, Kym - 2009
This paper analyzes the economic effects of agricultural price and merchandise trade policies around the world as of … in the use of unskilled labor)? Results are presented for the key countries and regions of the world and for the world as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012246928
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Trade Developments in 2016 : Policy Uncertainty Weighs on World Trade
Constantinescu, Cristina - 2017
This edition of Global Trade Watch addresses three questions concerning recent trade developments: What is happening? Why? Does it matter? 2016 is the fifth consecutive year of sluggish trade growth and the year with the weakest trade performance since the aftermath of the 2008 global financial...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012248262
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Fiscal Vulnerabilities in Commodity Exporting Countries and the Role of Fiscal Policy
Richaud, Christine - 2019
The paper updates the analysis of the fiscal policy response over the recent commodity cycle, contributes to the analysis of key drivers of fiscal policy procyclicality, and provides a stock-tacking of current fiscal vulnerabilities. Countercyclical fiscal policy during good times has been a key...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012646461
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Trade Policy, Trade Costs, and Developing Country Trade
Hoekman, Bernard; Nicita, Alessandro - 2012
World Bank. The paper also compares the trade impact of different types of trade restrictions applied at the border with the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552235
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Landlockedness, Infrastructure and Trade : New Estimates for Central Asian Countries
Grigoriou, Christopher - 2012
This paper assesses the impact of internal infrastructure and landlockedness on Central Asian trade using a panel gravity equation estimated on a large sample of countries (167 countries over 1992-2004). The panel structure of the dataset makes it possible to control for country-pair specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552782
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Implications of WTO Agreements and Unilateral Trade Policy Reforms for Poverty in Bangladesh : Short versus Long-Run Impacts
Annabi, Nabil; Khondker, Bazlul; Raihan, Selim - 2012
. (2) Free world trade has similar, but larger, impacts. (3) Domestic trade liberalization induces an expansion of … liberalization effects far outweigh those of free world trade when these scenarios are combined. (5) Remittances constitute a …
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Do Government Policies that Promote Competition Encourage??? or Discourage???New Product and Process Development In Low and Middle-Income Countries?
Clarke, George R. G. - 2012
not feel pressure (Carlin and others 2001; World Bank 2004). However, competition also appears to affect innovation in …
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