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Trading off the income gains and the inequality costs of trade policy

Artuc, Erhan; Rijkers, Bob; Porto, Guido G. - 2019

This paper characterizes the trade-off between the income gains and the inequality costs of trade using survey data for 54 developing countries. Tariff data on agricultural and manufacturing goods are combined with household survey data on detailed income and expenditure patterns to estimate the...

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Trade wars : what do they mean? : why are they happening now? : what are the costs?

Mattoo, Aaditya; Staiger, Robert W. - 2019

the rest of the world …

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Traders' dilemma : developing countries' response to trade disputes

Devarajan, Shantayanan; Go, Delfin S.; Lakatos, Csilla; … - 2018

If trade tensions between the United States and certain trading partners escalate into a full-blown trade war, what should developing countries do? Using a global, general-equilibrium model, this paper first simulates the effects of an increase in U.S. tariffs on imports from all regions to...

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Trade policy to catalyze export diversification what should landlocked fragile countries do? : the cases of Mali, Chad, and Niger

López-Cálix, José Roberto; Pitigala, Nihal - 2019

The landlocked and fragile countries Mali, Niger, and Chad have suffered, to varying degrees, from Dutch Disease, with high export concentration in natural resource commodities and in a few foreign markets, and little development of their non-resource economies. The three countries' ability to...

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Applied services trade policy : a guide to the Services Trade Policy Database and the Services Trade Restrictions Index

Borchert, Ingo; Gootiiz, Batshur; Magdeleine, Joscelyn; … - 2020

This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database, a joint initiative by the World Bank and the World Trade … Organization Secretariat, which builds on a database developed by the World Bank nearly 10 years ago and draws on a recent … are collected according to a newly developed policy classification, consistent with the earlier World Bank database and …

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The evolution of services trade policy since the Great Recession

Borchert, Ingo; Magdeleine, Joscelyn; Marchetti, Juan A.; … - 2020

on a new World Bank-World Trade Organization Services Trade Policy Database. The paper analyzes the services trade …

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Trade policy and market power : firm-level evidence

Asprilla, Alan; Berman, Nicolas; Cadot, Olivier; Jaud, … - 2019

This paper identifies the effect of trade policy on market power through new data and a new identification strategy. It uses a large data set containing export values and quantities by product and destination for all exporting firms in 12 developing and emerging countries over several years,...

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The textile-clothing value chain in India and Bangladesh : how appropriate policies can promote (or inhibit) trade and investment

Kabir, Mahfuz; Singh, Surendar; Ferrantino, Michael Joseph - 2019

There are significant value chain linkages between India and Bangladesh, particularly in the textile and apparel sector. India specializes in the upstream segment, supplying such intermediate inputs as silk, cotton, yarn, and fabrics to Bangladesh. Bangladesh specializes in the downstream final...

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From currency depreciation to trade reform : how to take Egyptian exports to new levels?

Youssef, Hoda; Zaki, Chahir - 2019

The Arab Republic of Egypt is yet to meet its exports potential, which has been historically hampered by several domestic market distortions and multiple barriers, resulting in weak export performance and modest regional and global integration. Although the liberalization of the exchange rate in...

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The Lao Trade Story : Implementing Trade Policy and Trade Facilitation Reforms in Lao PDR

World Bank Group - 2016

drastically reduced. As a crowning achievement-and after 15 years of negotiations, Lao PDR is now a member of the World Trade …

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