issue in a dynamic context by focusing on the impact of the brain drain on North-South trade-related technology diffusion …, productivity growth increases with North-South trade-related technology diffusion and education and the interaction between the two …, and decreases with the brain drain. Second, the impact of North-South trade-related technology diffusion, education, and …

This paper examines the impact of trade facilitation on intra-African trade. The authors examine the role of trade … infrastructure on trade between African countries. They also consider how regional trade agreements relate to intra-African trade … flows. Using trade data from 2003 to 2004, they find that improvement in ports and services infrastructure promise …

distances to border gates increase trade frictions significantly for many product categories, although these frictions have been … enhancing regional trade outcomes. Similarly, good performance in research and development may significantly help to spur …

There is substantial evidence that with the progressive global decline in tariffs over several decades, trade costs are … a more significant barrier to trade than tariffs, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper decomposes trade costs … into three categories: costs that can be lowered by trade facilitation, nontariff barriers, and the costs of business …

At the Davos forum of January 2014, a group of 14 countries pledged to launch negotiations on liberalizing trade in … products on the World Trade Organization list, taking into account tariff dispersion, the tariff structure on environmental … not increase by more than 8 percent. However, because of the strong complementarities between trade in environmental goods …

This paper investigates gender differences in the impact of Brazil's trade liberalization on labor market outcomes. To … identify the causal effect of trade reforms, the paper uses difference-in-difference estimation exploiting variation across … microregions in pre-liberalization industry composition. The analysis finds that trade liberalization reduced male and female labor …

In the last decade Morocco undertook substantial, if gradual, trade liberalization by reducing tariffs, reforming trade … regulations and signing free and preferential trade agreements with several regions and countries, including the United States … paper analyzes the impact of input tariff reduction on different margins of trade with emphasis on export markets and …

This paper examines the implications of the terms-of-trade theory for the determinants of outcomes arising under the … enforcement provisions of international agreements. Like original trade agreement negotiations, the paper models formal trade … dispute negotiations as potentially addressing the terms-of-trade externality problem that governments implement import …

current trade negotiations under the Doha Round reinforce or curb this trend? They apply a computable general equilibrium (CGE …,000 following this scenario. Further investigations indicate that more ambitious world trade liberalization leads to greater poverty … alleviation at the national level, while Cameroon's domestic trade liberalization has adverse poverty and inequality impacts …