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Doha Scenarios, Trade Reforms, and Poverty in the Philippines : A Computable General Equilibrium Analysis

Cororaton, Caesar B.; Cockburn, John; Corong, Erwin - 2012

Since the early 1980s the Philippines has undertaken substantial trade reform. The current Doha Round of World Trade … households in the wake of falling world prices and demand for the Philippines' agricultural exports. The authors find that the … poverty, especially in rural areas and among the unemployed, self-employed, and rural low-educated. The Philippines is found …

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Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics

Dix-Carneiro, Rafael; Kovak, Brian K. - 2015

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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Doha Merchandise Trade Reform : What???s at Stake for Developing Countries?

Anderson, Kym; Martin, Will; van der Mensbrugghe, Dominique - 2012

This paper provides new estimates of the global gains from multilateral trade reform and their distribution among developing countries in the presence of trade preferences. Particular attention is given to agriculture, as farmers constitute the poorest households in developing countries but are...

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Productivity Matters for Trade Policy : Theory and Evidence

Karacaovali, Baybars - 2012

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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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

The authors examine the effects of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare, and poverty in Bangladesh. They use a sequential dynamic computable general equilibrium (CGE) model, which takes into account accumulation effects, allowing for long-run analysis. The...

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Antidumping and Safeguard Measures in the Political Economy of Liberalization : The Mexican Case

de la Torre, Luz Elena Reyes; Gonz??lez, Jorge G. - 2012

Mexico's creation and use of safeguard and antidumping processes to advance its liberalization illustrate three key points: (1) The country was able to use the instruments without losing political control. In a period of crisis that threatened congressional approval of critical steps in the...

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Trade Policy Barriers : An Obstacle to Export Diversification in Eurasia

Cusolito, Ana Paula; Hollweg, Claire H. - 2013

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 barriers in Eurasia, East Asia and the Pacific, and the...

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