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Inequity plays a fundamental role in the evaluation of social welfare in many dimensions.We revisit the concept of inequity, whether across states of world (uncertainty), across individuals (inequality) and across generations (intergenerational equity), using a common framework generalizing the...
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, particularly China, on price growth between 2002 and 2017. I find that the trade shock impacted prices. Had import competition …
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We use a controlled laboratory experiment to study the causal impact of income decreases within a time period on redistribution decisions at the end of that period, in an environment where we keep fixed the sum of incomes over the period. First, we investigate the effect of a negative income...
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Trade and transport facilitation are vital for increasing countries' international trade and it is important to ensure … that the measures implemented to facilitate trade are effective. One of the crucial factors behind the successful … implementation of trade and transport facilitation is ensuring effective co-ordination among the various government agencies as well …
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The paper examines the trend and composition of agricultural trade between Indian and Pakistan and identifies … opportunities for increasing bilateral trade. It examines the bilateral agriculture trade before and after the implementation of … SAFTA. The study also analyses the comparative advantage and complementarities in agricultural trade between the two …
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this changed scenario, further efforts by India would benefit the regional trade integration process much more than before …Economic integration in South Asia is governed by India's relations with the other economies of the region and it is … also at the helm of all trade facilitation and transit issues of the region. Concessions given by India under SAFTA for …
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Trade facilitation measures improve the trading environment by reducing transaction costs and thereby increasing the … gains from trade. Although the use of trade facilitation measures for tackling trade bottlenecks has gained traction in … recent times, one aspect which remains largely unexplored is the importance of gender sensitivity in trade facilitation. The …
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Although older generations have substantially more wealth than their recent predecessors did at the same age, younger generations do not. Bringing together UK data on those born between the 1930s and 1980s and a lifecycle model of saving, I quantify whether this is due to changes in preferences...
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In this paper, preferences for income redistribution in Switzerland are elicited through a Discrete Choice Experiment (DCE) performed in 2008. In addition to the amount of redistribution as a share of GDP, attributes also included its uses (working poor, the unemployed, old-age pensioners,...
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