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import restrictions, with changes in export taxation by developing countries playing an additional (but minor) role during …
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The spike in food prices between 2005 and the first half of 2008 has highlighted the vulnerabilities of poor consumers to higher prices of agricultural goods and generated calls for massive policy action. This paper provides a formal assessment of the direct and indirect impacts of higher prices...
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This paper uses detailed data on bound and applied tariffs to assess the consequences of the World Trade Organization s December 2008 Modalities for tariffs levied and faced by developing countries, and the welfare implications of these reforms. The authors find that the tiered formula for...
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A revenue-neutral switch from trade taxes to domestic consumption taxes is fraught with implementation challenges in countries with a large informal sector. It is shown for a sample of low-income countries over 25 years that they have had a mixed record of offsetting reductions in trade tax...
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The record of traditional safeguard provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization provides useful information about how a special agricultural safeguard might be made effective. The success of existing safeguard or flexibility provisions to sustain...
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in developing countries. Descriptive statistics confirm higher export participation (but not intensity) for firms in core … and agglomeration factors have a significant impact on export participation. Specifically, customs clearance and … electricity quality matter for export participation for manufacturing firms. Although localization economies and export spillovers …
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The authors estimate the impact of aggregate indicators of "soft" and "hard" infrastructure on the export performance … trade facilitation reforms do improve the export performance of developing countries. This is particularly true with …
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Successful export growth and diversification require not only entry into new export products and markets, but also the … survival and growth of export flows. This paper uses a detailed, cross-country dataset of product level bilateral export flows … find that unobserved individual heterogeneity in product-level export flow data prevails despite controlling for a wide …
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