barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible reform outcomes from the WTO's Doha Development Agenda. The results … liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …

The authors examine the effects of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare, and poverty …. (2) Free world trade has similar, but larger, impacts. (3) Domestic trade liberalization induces an expansion of … liberalization effects far outweigh those of free world trade when these scenarios are combined. (5) Remittances constitute a …

. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …

Recent literature has shown evidence of positive contributions of export promotion agencies around the world in raising … exports, through the intensive and extensive margins of trade. The number of export promotion agencies has increased … their products. This paper describes the characteristics of export promotion agencies around the world, using a novel …

This paper assesses issues relating to tariffs and nontariff measures (NTMs) in relation to Russia's World Trade … Organization (WTO) and Eurasian Customs Union (ECU) commitments. The analysis finds that full implementation of Russia's WTO tariff … welfare gains to Russian consumers equal to approximately $370 million. Russian exports to members of the ECU, primarily …

economies over 1989-2010; by 2010, these WTO member countries collectively accounted for 21 percent of world merchandise imports … and 22 percent of world GDP. The paper examines determinants of carefully constructed, bilateral measures of new import … responsiveness coinciding with WTO establishment in 1995 suggests a significant change relative to the pre-WTO period; i.e., new …

study investigates a possible reason that prevents convergence of countries in export performance. It shows that regulatory … quality, customs efficiency, quality of infrastructure, and access to finance among other factors increase export performance … convergence in export volumes with countries that have more liberal trade policies …

The short-term impact of Brexit on goods exports is assessed using the Overall Trade Restrictiveness Index of the … United Kingdom's exports to the European Union to decrease by 2 percent, and the prospect of a major trade collapse post …

known as tariffs' water. The results show that trade policy uncertainty is an important barrier to exports and its effects … by 1.3 percent. The negative impact of trade policy uncertainty on export participation is higher for countries with low … water would boost the probability of trading by 50 percent and exports by 16 percent. The paper also estimates that the …

export-sector workers and more attractive to import-sector workers, eventually making workers unanimous either in favor of or …