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barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible reform outcomes from the WTO's Doha Development Agenda. The results … liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …
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The authors examine the effects of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare, and poverty …. (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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Peruvians a positive vision of Peru in the international economy and to extend the application of World Trade Organization …-based governance principles. Peru has introduced few new restrictions and all of them have been through World Trade Organization …-sanctioned policy instruments. Argentina, by contrast, has introduced multiple restrictions, through procedures that eschew World Trade …
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economies over 1989-2010. By 2010, these World Trade Organization member countries collectively accounted for 21 percent of … world merchandise imports and 22 percent of world gross domestic product. The paper examines determinants of carefully … environment facing these emerging economies as they joined the WTO and adopted disciplines to restrain their application of other …
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shocks on exports to Japan. In response to a depreciation of the yuan, which makes Chinese exports more competitive, the … findings show that firms that face non-tariff measures on their inputs see a much larger drop in their export values compared … the export response to the shock. This difference is consistent with the (partial) fixed costs imposed by non …
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This paper empirically studies the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. The paper uses variation in industry-specific tariff cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor demand shocks and examines...
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There is a growing literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity. Nearly all such studies assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is exogenous. The author shows that this assumption is not valid in general, both...
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World Trade Organization (WTO) rules of prevailing international prices as the measure of competition that industry was … expected to meet. The WTO rules would also have allowed the use of other standards-as in traditional antidumping …
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Despite trade liberalization efforts made by Eurasian countries, the export structure of the region shows significant … levels of concentration across export destinations. To shed light on this observation, this research analyzes trade policy … World Trade Organization, the United Nations, and the World Bank including the Overall Trade Restrictiveness Indices, the …
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subset of the literature focusing on trade policy and integration into the world economy. Although in the longer run trade … wage impacts within sectors. This reflects a pattern of expansion of more productive firms-especially export-oriented or …
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