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This paper presents new high-frequency data on trade policy changes targeting medical and food products since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, documenting how countries used trade policy instruments in response to the health crisis on a week-by-week basis. The data set reveals a rapid...
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database, the Household Impacts of Tariffs data set, which contains harmonized household survey and tariff data for 54 low- and …. Using a stylized model of the first-order impacts of import tariffs on household real income, this paper quantifies the … welfare implications of agricultural trade protection. On average, unilateral elimination of agricultural tariffs would …
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production. In this context, tariff policy design needs to consider the impact downstream of changes in tariffs upstream. Policy … downstream? What are the key input tariffs that could be reduced to lower production costs in priority sectors considering … Excel-based tool designed to help policy makers answer these questions, by combining information on tariffs and input …
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This paper investigates cross-sectoral productivity differentials in South African industry and their distributional consequences. The analysis shows that typically, traded sectors have experienced low productivity growth over the past decade, while skill intensive service sectors have had...
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increase in U.S. tariffs on imports from all regions to about 30 percent (the average non-Most Favored Nation tariff currently … outside the United States; and (iv) option (iii) and unilaterally liberalize tariffs on imports from the United States. The … forming RTAs with non-U.S. regions and liberalizing tariffs on U.S. imports ("turning the other cheek") is the best. The …
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