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relation to the rest of the world, this paper analyzes the cost and welfare implications of this policy and unpacks the …
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The impact of drought on household welfare is the cumulative effect of crop losses and price changes in a local economy that are triggered by these initial losses. This paper combines data on monthly grain prices and wages in 82 retail markets over 17 years with data on district-level weather...
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China's "Belt and Road Initiative" (BRI) includes major infrastructure investment projects - roads, ports, railways … procurement regimes of BRI countries, including China, both as embedded in domestic regulations and in international agreements …
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Jim Yong Kim, President of the World Bank Group, is inspired by Belt and Road Initiative, which will improve trade …
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Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China … exports and set the stage for China's increases in domestic value added and reduction in China's involvement in global … accession-related effects on export volumes in the literature, finds that the accession must have increased China's real export …
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This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New …
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China's Belt and Road Initiative aims to improve connectivity between China and more than 70 countries through …
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shipment times and trade costs. For the world, the average reduction in shipment time will range between 1.2 and 2.5 percent …
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This paper studies the production and trade linkages between a selected group of economies belonging to the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). After defining a group of Belt and Road Economies, the paper uses three standard trade databases to analyze trade and production linkages among these...
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followed by a corresponding increase in freight moved by rail. This report highlights the fact that, in a world of changing …
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