This paper documents an unusual and possibly significant phenomenon: The export of skills embodied in goods, services … and Development (OECD) countries from developing countries like Brazil, India, Malaysia, and South Africa as a share of … a deeper analysis of whether development benefits might derive not from deifying comparative advantage but from defying …

Does "infant industry" preferential access durably boost export performance? This paper exploits significant trade … constructed trade and tariff data at the country-product-year level (1992-2017). The analysis finds that the AGOA boosted African … Central and Western Africa. Firm-level customs data for selected countries reveal that even in East Africa, the recent export …

How should economists interpret current trade wars and the recent U.S. trade actions that have initiated them? This … paper offers an interpretation of current U.S. trade actions that is at once more charitable and less forgiving than that … selecting countries with which it runs bilateral trade deficits as the most suitable targets of its bargaining tariffs. Less …

Can regionalism do what multilateralism has so far failed to do?promote greater openness of services markets? Although … integrate faster internally than vis-?-vis the rest of the world: policies applied to trade with other ASEAN countries were … virtually the same as those applied to trade with rest of the world. Moreover, the recent commitments scheduled under AFAS did …

on a new World Bank-World Trade Organization Services Trade Policy Database. The paper analyzes the services trade …, transportation, and professional services. Policy measures are quantified into a Services Trade Restrictions Index (STRI) following a … novel, consistent and transparent framework. The paper identifies patterns of services trade policies across sectors and …

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development database. The Services Trade Policy Database offers comparable information …This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database, a joint initiative by the World Bank and the World Trade … on services trade policies for 68 economies in 23 subsectors across five broad areas -- financial services …

Should the China-U.S. trade agreement prompt relief because it averts a damaging trade war or concern because selective … States and China would be better off under this "managed trade" agreement than if the trade war had escalated. However …-supplying neighbor, Mexico. Real incomes in the rest of world would decline by 0.16 percent and in China by 0.38 percent because of trade …

Studies on innovation and international trade have traditionally focused on manufacturing because neither was seen as …, this paper reveals some novel patterns. First, although services firms have on average a much lower propensity to export … findings suggest that the growing faith in services as a source of both trade and innovative dynamism may not be misplaced …

This paper attempts to quantify the impact of economic policy uncertainty on overall trade and trade linked to global … negative impact of policy uncertainty on overall trade growth. A 1 percent increase in uncertainty is associated with a 0 ….02 percentage point reduction in the growth of goods and services trade, implying that the increase in policy uncertainty since mid …