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Unrestricted Market Access for Sub-Saharan Africa : How Much Is It Worth and Who Pays?

Ianchovichina, Elena; Mattoo, Aaditya; Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2001

The European Union (EU), Japan, and the United States (US) have recently announced initiatives to improve market access for the poorest countries. The authors assess the impact on Sub-Saharan Africa of these initiatives, and others that might be taken. They find that fully unrestricted access to...

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Preferential Market Access Design : Evidence and Lessons from African Apparel Exports to the US and the EU

De Melo, Jaime; Portugal-Pérez, Alberto - 2013

the design of preferences. The paper estimates that this simplification contributed to an increase in export volume of … design also mattered for diversity in apparel exports, as the number of export varieties grew more rapidly under the Africa …

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The African Growth and Opportunity Act, Exports, and Development in Sub-Saharan Africa

Brenton, Paul; Hoppe, Mombert - 2012

export diversification in a few countries, AGOA has fallen short of the potential impetus that preferences could otherwise …

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Eliminating Excessive Tariffs on Exports of Least Developed Countries

Hoekman, Bernard M.; Ng, Francis; Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2001

products developing countries want to export: agricultural, and food products - especially such staples as sugar, cereals, and …

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The Africa Growth and Opportunity Act and its Rules of Origin : Generosity Undermined?

Mattoo, Aaditya; Roy, Devesh; Subramanian, Arvind - 2002

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA), signed into American law on May 18, 2000, is a major plank of U.S. initiatives toward the African continent. The Act aims broadly at improving economic policymaking in Africa, enabling countries to embrace globalization, and securing durable...

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Does Migration Foster Exports? Evidence from Africa

Ehrhart, H??l??ne; Le Goff, Ma??lan; Rocher, Emmanuel - 2014

This paper aims at assessing the impact of migration on export performance and more particularly the effect of African …

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How Many Dimensions Do We Trade In? Product Space Geometry and Latent Comparative Advantage

Arvis, Jean-Fran??ois - 2013

This paper proposes a new quantitative implementation of Balassa's idea that export composition and revealed … the export composition of countries is close to a low-dimensional manifold or "Product Space" within the space of export … the structure of the trade matrix. The model uses non-linear techniques to identify the product space from the 2010 export …

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Why Liquidity Matters to the Export Decision of the Firm

Chan, Rosanna - 2014

ways: first, by articulating a dynamic working capital model of the firm that incorporates the firm's export decision … constraints are particularly acute. The model shows that productivity determines export status of the firm as long as it is not … under financial constraints. However, under financial constraints, export status is less dependent on productivity and more …

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Preferential Liberalization, Antidumping, and Safeguards : Stumbling Block Evidence from MERCOSUR

Bown, Chad P.; Tovar, Patricia - 2016

There is not yet consensus in the trade agreements literature as to whether preferential liberalization leads to more or less multilateral liberalization. However, research thus far has focused mostly on tariff measures of import protection. This paper develops more comprehensive measures of...

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Is the WTO Passe?

Bagwell, Kyle; Bown, Chad P.; Staiger, Robert W. - 2015

The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried trade liberalization as far as it can manage, and...

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