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Decades of services trade negotiations have produced a plethora of rules and commitments but limited real liberalization. One reason is a form of "negotiating tunnel vision," which has led to a focus on reciprocal market opening rather than on creating the regulatory preconditions for...
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Since the Global Financial Crisis, world trade growth has been subdued and lagging slightly behind growth of gross … trade-income relationship, and then investigates its consequences for economic growth. On the demand side, sluggish world …
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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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This paper examines how policy governing the liner shipping sector affects maritime transport costs and seaborne trade flows. The paper uses a novel data set and finds that restrictions, particularly on foreign investment, increase maritime transport costs, strongly but unevenly. The...
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industrialized and developing countries. To overcome these "narrative," "adding-up," and "new world" problems, respectively, this …
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Surprisingly little is known about policies that affect international trade in services. Previous analyses have focused on policy commitments made by countries in international agreements but these commitments do not in many cases reflect actual policy. This paper describes a new initiative to...
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The World Trade Organization has been until recently an effective framework for cooperation because it has continually … mechanism that has driven the World Trade Organization process to previous successes. The second is new restraints on …
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The focus of trade policy has shifted in recent years from economy-wide reductions in tariffs and trade restrictions toward targeted interventions to facilitate trade and promote exports. Most of these latter interventions are based on the new mantra of "aid-for-trade" rather than on hard...
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place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …
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How global emissions reduction targets can be achieved equitably is a key issue in climate change discussions. This paper presents an analytical framework to encompass contributions to the literature on equity in climate change, and highlights the consequences -- in terms of future emissions...
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