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organization and performance of cotton sectors in Sub-Saharan Africa, a study published by the World Bank in 2008. The objective of … outcomes on a sample of nine of the major cotton exporting countries of Sub-Saharan Africa, and draw lessons from each country … of future cotton sector reform programs. This paper describes and reviews the situation of the cotton sector of Cote d …
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retrenchment or a segmentation of GVCs. World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains …
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Trade can dramatically improve women's lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women's bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between...
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The paper is structured in six further sections following this introduction. Section two develops a conceptual framework, and reviews the literature on the relationship between trade integration and labor market outcomes. Section three outlines the empirical framework and data used in the...
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-for-tat tariffs between the United States and China alone affected 2.0 percent of world merchandise trade in 2018. Ongoing trade …Global trade growth slowed in 2018 amid a weakening of economic growth in China and the Euro Area and rising trade … quarter of 2019. However, the U.S. tariff increases implemented in early May and China's response might change the outlook …
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, but the impact varies by income group. Provisions outside the current mandate of the World Trade Organization (investment … under the current World Trade Organization mandate (tariff reduction and customs facilitation) drive the effect of trade …
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This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …
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How does geographic distance affect the impact of trade agreements on bilateral exports, and through what channels? This paper examines this questions in a gravity model context for different types of goods for 185 countries over the period 1965-2010. Three stylized facts emerge. First, although...
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Services play a role in global value chains in many ways, similar to goods. But services deserve special attention because of how they are transacted, how they affect downstream sectors, how they are regulated, and how international cooperation can contribute to integrating national markets....
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This paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. The analysis uses …
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