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barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible reform outcomes from the WTO's Doha Development Agenda. The results … liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …
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. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …
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Recent literature has shown evidence of positive contributions of export promotion agencies around the world in raising … exports, through the intensive and extensive margins of trade. The number of export promotion agencies has increased … their products. This paper describes the characteristics of export promotion agencies around the world, using a novel …
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noteworthy in the use of economic arguments by the WTO dispute settlement panel, which held that the excess sugar exports were in … being used to cover losses associated with exports of sugar to the world market. Although in principle the economic …An important recent World Trade Organization dispute settlement case for many developing countries concerned European …
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Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most … frequent users of the WTO-sanctioned antidumping trade policy instrument. This paper exploits newly available data to examine … face the changing economic conditions specified by the technical evidentiary criteria of the WTO Antidumping Agreement …
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How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this starting point is key to determining how successful the GATT has been in bringing down trade barriers. If the average tariff level was about 40 percent, as commonly reported, the...
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place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …
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Rich countries' agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round …
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The Zambian cotton sector went through significant reforms during the 1990s. After a long period of parastatal control, a process of liberalization in cotton production and marketing began in 1994. These reforms were expected to benefit agricultural farmers. In Zambia, these are rural, often...
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world. With the global economy evolving continuously and rapidly, countries must pay close attention to their positioning on … to competitors and to their past export performance. Of particular importance is the extent to which their performance is … quarterly data for 2005q1-2013q1 to compute comparable indicators of export performance for 228 countries and territories. The …
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