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Turkey has moved rapidly from a current account that was relatively in balance up to the turn of the millennia, to sustaining relatively large current account deficits over the past 15 years. Using annual data from 1986 to 2017 and a jackknife model-averaging estimator, the paper estimates the...

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Searching for Growth and Development in Authoritarian Mexico : A Brief Tale of the NAFTA Commitment Device

Gonzalez Reyes, Alfredo - 2016

Mexico's pursue and implementation of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was a pro-growth policy strategy … that deepened Mexico's economic liberalization process at a time of crisis and macroeconomic stabilization. In that context … processes. NAFTA was possible for Mexico thanks to a new coalition between public and private elites that had recently gone …

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Connectivity for Caribbean Countries : An Initial Assessment

Briceño-Garmendia, Cecilia - 2014

Every discussion of the Caribbean states considers their characteristics as sea-locked countries, small economies, highly vulnerable to natural disasters, and a geographic platform that calls for regional cooperation and integration. The Caribbe

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Tracing the local impacts of exports on poverty and inequality in Mexico

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Trade Liberalization and Export Variety : A Comparison of Mexico and China

Feenstra, Robert C. - 2011

section three. In sections four and five discuss the empirical applications to export variety growth in Mexico and China …

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Opening for Business : Myanmar Diagnostic Trade Integration Study

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As part of the Enhanced Integrated Framework (EIF) program for Trade-Related Assistance to Least Developed Countries (LCDs), which Myanmar joined in April 2013, the Government of Myanmar has asked the World Bank Group (WBG) to be the implementing agency for a Diagnostic Trade Integration Study...

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Trade Facilitation Challenges and Reform Priorities for Maximizing the Impact of the Belt and Road Initiative

Bartley Johns, Marcus - 2018

This study examines the relevance of trade facilitation reforms in maximizing the economic impactof infrastructure connectivity investments through the Belt and Road Initiative (BRI). It providesan overview of trade facilitation performance in BRI economies, with a focus on those...

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Vietnam : Deepening International Integration and Implementing the EVFTA

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Following from Vietnam's ratification of the Comprehensive and Progressive Agreement for Trans-Pacific Partnership (CPTPP) in late 2018 and its effectiveness from January 2019, and the European Parliament's recent approval of the European Union-Vietnam Free Trade Agreement (EVFTA) and its...

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Political Economy of Anglo-French Trade, 1689-1899 : Agricultural Trade Policies, Alcohol Taxes, and War

Nye, John V. C. - 2009

Britain contrary to received wisdom was not a free trader for most of the 1800s and, despite repeal of the Corn Laws, continued to have higher tariffs than the French until the last quarter of the century. War with Louis fourteenth from 1689 led to the end of all trade between Britain and France...

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