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This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New Silk Road, on the 71 countries potentially involved. The initiative consists of several infrastructure investment projects to improve the land and maritime transportation in the...
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household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to … 11 Brazilian states to capture the fact that some local markets may be relatively more isolated from changes in world … world sugar prices. Results suggest that workers in the sugar sector and in sugar-producing regions have better employment …
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This paper analyzes the impacts of selected trade facilitation measures on international trade flows. A gravity model is used to estimate four equations: a pooled cross-section model; a fixed-effects model; a random effects model; and a Poisson maximum likelihood estimator. The contribution of...
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This paper examines the impact of two crises on the global apparel value chain: the World Trade Organization phase … suppliers that are strategically located around the world. The paper concludes with recommendations for how developing countries …
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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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The spread of global value chains (GVCs) has given rise to new statistical tools, the Inter-Country Input-Output tables and new analytical frameworks aimed at properly identifying production linkages between and within economies. However, several important questions remain unaddressed. This...
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This paper provides up-to-date characterization of the association between trade and GDP comovement -- also called the trade comovement slope -- for 150 countries from 1962 to 2011. The paper shows that trade is significantly linked to more GDP correlation, either directly through bilateral...
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, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple …
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The Special Safeguard Mechanism was a key issue in the July 2008 failure to reach agreement in the World Trade … uses a stochastic simulation model of the world wheat market to investigate the effects of policy makers implementing … percent in some regions, with world wheat trade falling by 4.7 percent. The price measures discriminate against low price …
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oilseed prices compared with a fuel tax exemption. Jumps in world crude oil prices have differential impacts on commodity …
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