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Natural resources and non-cooperative trade policy

Latina, Joelle; Piermartini, Roberta; Ruta, Michele - 2011 - Manuscript date: March 2011

When looking at the conditions of trade in natural resources the world appears upside down: tariff protection in natural resources sectors is generally lower than for overall merchandise trade, while export restrictions are twice as likely as in other sectors. On the other hand, tariff...

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Clustering value-added trade : structural and policy dimensions

Escaith, Hubert; Gaudin, Hadrien - 2014 - Manuscript date: 2 June 2014

A second approach focuses on the relationships existing between the variables themselves, using multi-criteria and graph analysis. Natural resources endowments, on the one hand, and services orientation, on the other one, are among the most determinant variables for defining Trade in Value Added...

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Women's economic empowerment : an inherent part of Aid for Trade

Der Boghossian, Anoush - 2019 - Manuscript date: 25 April 2019

Aid for Trade supports developing and least-developed countries in building their trade capacity and in increasing their exports by turning market access opportunities into market presence. It does so by addressing four key areas: trade policy & regulations; economic infrastructure; building...

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Trade policies supporting women's economic empowerment : trends in WTO members

Der Boghossian, Anoush - 2019 - Manuscript date: 25 April 2019

This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment. The analysis below is based on the information provided by WTO Members as part of their Trade Policy Review (TPRs) process from 2014 to 2018. Reports from the WTO Secretariat,...

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The WTO : theory and practice

Bagwell, Kyle; Staiger, Robert W. - 2009

We consider the purpose and design of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and its predecessor, GATT. We review recent … developments in the relevant theoretical and empirical literature. And we describe the GATT/WTO architecture and briefly trace its … central features of the design and practice of the GATT/WTO, and we identify key unresolved issues. …

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Food prices and the multiplier effect of export policy

Giordani, Paolo E.; Rocha, Nadia; Ruta, Michele - 2012 - Manuscript date: April 2012

This paper studies the relationship between export policy and food prices. We show that, when individuals are loss averse, food exporters may use trade policy to shield the domestic economy from large price shocks. This creates a complementarity between the price of food in international markets...

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Opening a Pandora's box : modeling world trade patterns at the 2035 horizon

Fontagné, Lionel; Fouré, Jean - 2013 - Manuscript date: August 2, 2013

Economic projections for the world economy, particularly in relation to the construction of Computable General Equilibrium (CGE) baselines, are generally rather conservative and take scant account of the wide range of possible evolutions authorized by the underlying economic mechanisms...

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Product standards and margins of trade : firm level evidence

Fontagné, Lionel; Orefice, Gianluca; Piermartini, Roberta - 2013 - Manuscript date: March 8, 2013

This paper analyses the trade effects of restrictive product standards on the margins of trade for a large panel of French firms. To focus on restrictive product standards only, we use a new database compiling the list of measures that have been raised as concerns in dedicated committees of the...

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Simulating world trade in the decades ahead : driving forces and policy implications

Fontagné, Lionel; Fouré, Jean; Keck, Alexander - 2014 - Manuscript date: April 04, 2014

Constructing fully traceable scenarios based on assumptions grounded in the literature, we are also able to isolate the relative impact of key economic drivers. We find that the stakes for developing countries are particularly high: The emergence of new players in the world economy,...

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Revisiting growth accounting from a trade in value-added perspective

Escaith, Hubert - 2016 - Manuscript date: 24 February 2016

Global Manufacturing and International Supply Chains changed the way trade and international economics are understood today. The present essay builds on recent statistical advances to suggest new ways of looking at the demand and supply side approaches when Global Value Chains (GVCs) -...

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