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Trade Integration as a Way Forward for the Arab World : A Regional Agenda
Chauffour, Jean-Pierre - 2017
emergence of new growth poles around the world could create the conditions for a big push toward greater regional and global … trade integration of the Arab world. Further integrating Arab countries among themselves and opening up the region to the … rest of the world are two complementary avenues to improve market access, promote behind-the-border regulatory reforms …
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Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard; Manchin, Miriam - 2005
Because of concern that OECD tariff reductions will translate into worsening export performance for the least developed countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. The authors examine the actual scope for preference...
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Is the WTO Passe?
Bagwell, Kyle - 2018
The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried trade liberalization as far as it can manage, and...
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The Gatt's Starting Point : Tariff Levels Circa 1947
Bown, Chad P. - 2018
How high were import tariffs when GATT participants began negotiations to reduce them in 1947? Establishing this starting point is key to determining how successful the GATT has been in bringing down trade barriers. If the average tariff level was about 40 percent, as commonly reported, the...
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Services Trade Liberalization and Regulatory Reform : Re-Invigorating International Cooperation
Hoekman, Bernard - 2017
place the preconditions for future market opening. The second proposal is for a new approach to negotiations in the World …
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Distributional Effects of WTO Agricultural Reforms in Rich and Poor Countries
Hertel, Thomas W. - 2016
Rich countries' agricultural trade policies are the battleground on which the future of the WTO's troubled Doha Round will be determined. Subject to widespread criticism, they nonetheless appear to be almost immune to serious reform, and one of their most common defenses is that they protect...
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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 WTO Doha Round, Cotton Sector Dynamics and Poverty Trends in Zambia
Balat, Jorge F.; Porto, Guido G. - 2014
The Zambian cotton sector went through significant reforms during the 1990s. After a long period of parastatal control, a process of liberalization in cotton production and marketing began in 1994. These reforms were expected to benefit agricultural farmers. In Zambia, these are rural, often...
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Rules of Origin and the Web of East Asian Free Trade Agreements
Manchin, Miriam - 2016
The authors provide an overview of the preferential rules of origin in East Asia, highlighting the aspects that might possibly generate some trade-chilling effects. They review characteristics of existing preferential trade agreements with special emphasis on lessons from the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747697
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Rules of Origin for Preferential Trading Arrangements : Implications for the ASEAN Free Trade Area of EU and U.S. Experience
Cadot, Olivier - 2016
With free trade areas (FTAs) under negotiation between Japan and the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) members and between the Republic of Korea and AFTA members, preferential market access will become more important in Asian regionalism. Protectionist pressures will likely increase through rules of...
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