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Doha Merchandise Trade Reform : What's at Stake for Developing Countries?
Anderson, Kym - 2016
liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …
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The Heterogeneous Effects of Trade Policy Uncertainty : How Much Do Trade Commitments Boost Trade?
Osnago, Alberto - 2018
current system of commitments boosts trade by between 10 and 30 percent, compared with a world where at any moment tariffs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912125
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Some Simple Analytics of Trade and Labor Mobility
Artuc, Erhan - 2018
This paper studies a simple, tractable model of labor adjustment in a trade model that allows researchers to analyze the economy's dynamic response to trade liberalization. Since it is a neoclassical market-clearing model, duality techniques can be employed to study the equilibrium and, despite...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937684
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Trading Off the Income Gains and the Inequality Costs of Trade Policy
Rijkers, Bob - 2019
This paper characterizes the trade-off between the income gains and the inequality costs of trade using survey data for 54 developing countries. Tariff data on agricultural and manufacturing goods are combined with household survey data on detailed income and expenditure patterns to estimate the...
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CGE Models for the Analysis of Trade Policy in Developing Countries
de Melo, Jaime - 2017
The use of computable general equilibrium (CGE) simulation models for policy analysis has become widespread. However, such techniques are not well suited to economywide analysis in developing countries. Instead, simulation models relying on "borrowed" parameter estimates have been used for a...
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Sustaining Trade Reform : Institutional Lessons from Peru and Argentina
Baracat, Elias - 2017
Peruvians a positive vision of Peru in the international economy and to extend the application of World Trade Organization …-based governance principles. Peru has introduced few new restrictions and all of them have been through World Trade Organization …-sanctioned policy instruments. Argentina, by contrast, has introduced multiple restrictions, through procedures that eschew World Trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973985
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Trade Policy Barriers : An Obstacle to Export Diversification in Eurasia
Cusolito, Ana P. - 2017
World Trade Organization, the United Nations, and the World Bank ? including the Overall Trade Restrictiveness Indices, the …
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Implications of WTO Agreements and Unilateral Trade Policy Reforms for Poverty in Bangladesh : Short Versus Long-Run Impacts
Annabi, Nabil - 2016
. (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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748005
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Productivity Matters for Trade Policy : Theory and Evidence
Karacaovali, Baybars - 2016
There is a growing literature that investigates the effect of trade liberalization on productivity. Nearly all such studies assume that trade policy is determined independently of productivity, hence it is exogenous. The author shows that this assumption is not valid in general, both...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012748126
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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy
Bown, Chad P. - 2018
represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …
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