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Regulatory Cooperation, Aid for Trade and the General Agreement on Trade in Services

Hoekman, Bernard; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012

World Trade Organization. A distinction is made between market access liberalization and the regulatory preconditions for … making national treatment the objective of World Trade Organization services negotiations, thereby clarifying the scope of … World Trade Organization commitments for regulators. Moreover, liberalization by smaller and poorer members of the World …

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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 …

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Trade Preferences and Differential Treatment of Developing Countries : A Selective Survey

Hoekman, Bernard; ??zden, ??aglar - 2012

Nonreciprocal trade preferences and provisions in the GATT/WTO that allow developing countries greater leeway to retain or use protectionist policies are two of the central planks of so-called special and differential treatment (SDT) for developing countries in the multilateral trading system....

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Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization

Fran??ois, Joseph; Hoekman, Bernard; Manchin, Miriam - 2012

Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate into worsening export performance for the least developed countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. The authors examine the actual scope for preference...

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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...

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European Community???Sugar : Cross-Subsidization and the World Trade Organization

Hoekman, Bernard; Howse, Robert - 2012

An important recent World Trade Organization dispute settlement case for many developing countries concerned European … being used to cover losses associated with exports of sugar to the world market. Although in principle the economic …

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Liberalizing Trade in Services : A Survey

Hoekman, Bernard - 2012

by the World Trade Organization or regional trade agreements, especially the European Union, but an increasing number of …

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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 …

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Economic Policy Responses to Preference Erosion : From Trade as Aid to Aid for Trade

Hoekman, Bernard; Prowse, Susan - 2012

Trade preferences are a central issue in ongoing efforts to negotiate further multilateral trade liberalization. "Less preferred" countries are increasingly concerned about the discrimination they confront, while "more preferred" developing countries worry that WTO-based liberalization of trade...

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Strengthening the Global Trade Architecture for Development

Hoekman, Bernard - 2013

Despite recurring rounds of trade liberalization, under the auspices of the World Trade Organization (and its … have not been able to integrate into the world economy. The author argues that from the perspective of the poorest …

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