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multilateral cooperation when countries are linked by international trade flows and transboundary pollution. …
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. Informational trade performance and efficiency are essential components of overall success. And in this new economy of instant … infrastructure to increase trade is significant, trade cannot advance without parallel, systematic improvement in the invisible …
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Since approximately 1990, most countries in Latin America have embarked on a unilateral process of trade liberalization … trade reform, and the present status regarding tariffs and quantitative restrictions in the various countries. …
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Many developing countries enforce seed regulations and other policies that obstruct private companies from operating and delivering new technology. This volume presents recommendations and selected papers from an international workshop organized by the World Bank in 1995 to review seed policies...
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This study investigates the economic impacts of accession to the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) by the new member … countries of Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam. The trade policies of these countries are examined, and a series of …-specific policy challenges associated with trade liberalization-- such as declining tariff revenues in Cambodia, and the negative …
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, investment, and trade. This study examines the growth in demand for eight major oil products for 37 developing countries over the …
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conflicts. Trade and democracy are traditionally thought of as goods, both in themselves, and because they reduce the …
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We examine the endogenous formation of trade blocs when markets are characterized by imperfect competition and … simple model of intra-industry trade between three ex-ante symmetric countries, we find that, while 'pure' customs unions … - entailing tariff cooperation only - are stepping stones towards global free trade, 'impure' customs unions - involving the …
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This paper illustrates that an international permit trading system may hurt relatively poor countries by making associated economic activities unaffordable. A model is constructed in which the free market solution is Pareto inefficient as a result of pollution. The introduction of tradable...
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This paper argues that previous empirical work on the explanation for Hong Kong's export Growth, by focusing on the values of the estimated price and income elasticities, has failed to provide a full account. It is necessarily also to look at changes in the explanatory variables in the model,...
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