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Transparency, Trade Costs, and Regional Integration in the Asia Pacific
Helble, Matthias; Shepherd, Ben; Wilson, John S. - 2012
The authors show in this paper that increasing the transparency of the trading environment can be an important complement to traditional liberalization of tariff and non-tariff barriers. Our definition of transparency is grounded in a transaction cost analysis. The authors focus on two...
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On the Geography of Trade : Distance is Alive and Well
Carrere, Celine; Schiff, Maurice - 2013
It has been widely argued that, with the decline in trade costs (for example, transport and communication costs), the importance of distance has declined over time. If so, this would be a boon for countries located far from the main centers of economic activity. The authors examine the evolution...
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Why Trade Facilitation Matters to Africa
Portugal-Perez, Alberto; Wilson, John S. - 2012
half-way to the level in South Africa is more important than a substantive cut in tariff barriers. As an example, improving … logistics in Ethiopia half-way to the level in South Africa would be roughly equivalent to a 7.5 percent cut in tariffs faced by …
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Trade Policy, Trade Costs, and Developing Country Trade
Hoekman, Bernard; Nicita, Alessandro - 2012
This paper briefly reviews new indices of trade restrictiveness and trade facilitation that have been developed at the World Bank. The paper also compares the trade impact of different types of trade restrictions applied at the border with the effects of domestic policies that affect trade...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552235
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The Impact of Regional Liberalization and Harmonization in Road Transport Services : A Focus on Zambia and Lessons for Landlocked Ccountries
Raballand, Ga??l; Kunaka, Charles; Giersing, Bo - 2012
important effect on transport costs and tariffs for Zambia's economy. Zambia is a peculiar example in Southern Africa as it … benefits from relatively low transport costs compared with other landlocked countries in Africa. This is mainly because of …'s trucking industry. As a result, the costs of operators registered in Zambia and South Africa are similar. The study also …
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On Measuring the Benefits of Lower Transport Costs
Jacoby, Hanan G.; Minten, Bart - 2012
Despite large amounts invested in rural roads in developing countries, little is known about their benefits. This paper derives an expression for the willingness-to-pay for a reduction in transport costs from the canonical agricultural household model and uses it to estimate the benefits of a...
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Improving Logistics Costs for Transportation and Trade Facilitation
Gonzalez, Julio A.; Guasch, Jose Luis; Serebrisky, Tomas - 2012
Access to basic infrastructure services - roads, electricity, water, sanitation - and the efficient provision of the services, is a key challenge in the fight against poverty. Many of the poor (and particularly the extreme poor) in rural communities in Latin America live on average 5 kilometers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552342
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The Cost of Being Landlocked : Logistics Costs and Supply Chain Reliability
Arvis, Jean-Fran??ois; Raballand, Gael; Marteau, … - 2012
Africa, Central Asia, and elsewhere, this paper proposes a microeconomic quantitative description of logistics costs. The …
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Trade Costs, Barriers to Entry, and Export Diversification in Developing Countries
Dennis, Allen; Shepherd, Ben - 2012
This paper finds that a 1 percent reduction in the cost of exporting or the cost of international transport is associated with an export diversification gain of 0.3 percent or 0.4 percent respectively. Lower domestic market entry costs can also promote diversification, but the elasticity is...
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The Data Chase : What's Out There on Trade Costs and Nontariff Barriers?
Bagai, Shweta; Wilson, John S. - 2012
Trade costs and nontariff barriers are at the forefront of discussions on competitiveness and expanding trade opportunities for developing countries. This paper provides a summary overview of data and indicators relevant to these issues and has been informed by work underway at the World Bank on...
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