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Trade Costs in the Developing World : 1995 - 2010
Arvis, Jean-Fran??ois; Duval, Yann; Shepherd, Ben - 2013
The authors use newly collected data on trade and production in 178 countries to infer estimates of trade costs in agriculture and manufactured goods for the 1995-2010 period. The data show that trade costs are strongly declining in per capita income. Moreover, the rate of change of trade costs...
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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...
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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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Trade Costs, Barriers to Entry, and Export Diversification in Developing Countries
Dennis, Allen; Shepherd, Ben - 2012
associated with an export diversification gain of 0.3 percent or 0.4 percent respectively. Lower domestic market entry costs can … measures of export diversification for 118 developing countries using highly detailed 8-digit mirror data from the European … Union. The analysis also incorporates new export cost data from the World Bank's Doing Business database, covering document …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552814
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The Cost of Being Landlocked : Logistics Costs and Supply Chain Reliability
Arvis, Jean-Fran??ois; Raballand, Gael; Marteau, … - 2012
A large proportion of the least developed countries are landlocked and their access to world markets depends on the availability of a trade corridor and transit systems. Based on empirical evidence from World Bank projects and assessments in Africa, Central Asia, and elsewhere, this paper...
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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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Why Trade Facilitation Matters to Africa
Portugal-Perez, Alberto; Wilson, John S. - 2012
This paper reviews data and research on trade costs for Sub-Saharan African countries. It focuses on: border-related costs, transport costs, costs related to behind-the border issues, and the costs of compliance with rules of origin specific to preferential trade agreements. Trade costs are, on...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012552244
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How do Differing Standards Increase Trade Costs? The Case of Pallets
Raballand, Ga??l; Aldaz-Carroll, Enrique - 2012
The pallet is a platform used for storing, handling, and transporting products. There are hundreds of different pallet sizes around the world. The case of pallets is examined to illustrate the impact of multiplicity of standards on trade costs. We select this case because pallets are used all...
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559709
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On the Conservation of Distance in International Trade
Berthelon, Matias; Freund, Caroline - 2013
The volume of world trade has grown more than twice as fast as real world income since 1980. Surprisingly, the effect of distance on trade has increased during this period. It could be that countries are trading greater volumes of goods that are highly sensitive to distance. An alternative...
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