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International Finance Corporation (IFC) conducted a survey to identify opportunities and provide recommendations for facilitating finance for women small and medium enterprise (SME) entrepreneurs. Various stakeholders were interviewed during the survey which included 500 women SME entrepreneurs,...
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Coffee is an ecologically and economically significant crop for Haiti. It is not only the main source of income for … more than 100,000 farmers, but the coffee ecosystem also sustains a large part of the remaining tree cover (currently at … the Haitian coffee sub-sector. Instead, it describes the risks affecting the existing supply chain in terms of their …
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Despite losing global market share over the last 20 years, Uganda remains a major coffee producer, accounting for … approximately 2.5 percent of global coffee production. In 2008-2009, coffee exports accounted for almost a quarter of Uganda …, the coffee industry is extremely important to both the rural population and the Ugandan economy. However, the sector …
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This note is a preliminary estimate of the revenue foregone under customs duty because of the various exemptions provided on imports. The estimates are intended as an input into the policy process that seeks to balance revenue raising measures, trade and tariff policy, and competitiveness. The...
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This report aims to provide a background of the electricity sector in Lebanon and to estimate the current and future costs of the sector in order to inform reform plans that are needed to recover the sector financial viability
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Rice is a staple food in the West African nation of Sierra Leone with little difference in consumption between poor and wealthy households. Rice production is also an important source of livelihood with half of all households, three-quarters of rural households and about two-thirds of poor...
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sectors, are associated with decreases in the total factor productivity of firms downstream. Gains from lower input tariffs …
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the sectors in which tariffs are high or low? How diverse is the tariff structure of Russia? Surprisingly, these questions … specific Russian tariffs. The authors have obtained a new data set that they describe in this book. As a result of these new … data, the authors are able to calculate the ad valorem equivalents of the specific tariffs. This allows them to provide the …
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binding tariff commitments under trade agreements (multilateral and regional agreements) and applied tariffs-what is also … known as tariffs' water. The results show that trade policy uncertainty is an important barrier to exports and its effects … current system of commitments boosts trade by between 10 and 30 percent, compared with a world where at any moment tariffs …
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set on preferential and non-preferential or Most Favored Nation (MFN) applied tariffs, constructed by the International … across countries and sectors. Around 70 percent of countries have reduced trade-weighted average preferential tariffs to less …
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