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Digital Trade in MENA : Regulatory Readiness Assessment
Daza Jaller, Lillyana Sophia - 2020
A strong regulatory framework can provide essential tools for remote transactions and improve trust in digital trade. Yet, regulations can also introduce restrictions that hamper the conditions for digital markets. Based on a database of 20 Middle East and North Africa countries and 20...
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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...
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Latin American Growth : A Trade Perspective
de la Torre, Augusto - 2019
This paper reviews the determinants of Latin America's uneven growth based on an accounting decomposition that breaks down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction exerted by the country's exports, (ii) an external...
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Trade Policy and Wage Inequality : A Structural Analysis with Occupational and Sectoral Mobility
Artuc, Erhan - 2017
A number of authors have argued that a worker's occupation of employment is at least as important as the worker's industry of employment in determining whether the worker will be hurt or helped by international trade. This paper investigates the role of occupational mobility on the effects of...
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Trade Policies, Investment Climate, and Exports Across Countries
Seker, Murat - 2017
There is a large body of research that explores international trade as a source of the dispersion in income levels and growth performances across countries. The trade liberalization policies undertaken between 1950 and 2006 led to an almost 30 fold growth in the volume of international trade....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976019
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How Integrated is SADC? Trends in Intra-Regional and Extra-Regional Trade Flows and Policy
Behar, Alberto - 2017
Do Southern African Development Community countries trade enough with each other and with the rest of the world? Although its share of world trade has fallen, appropriate benchmarking shows that, controlling for gross domestic product and other characteristics, Southern African Development...
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Trade and Employment : Stylized Facts and Research Findings
Hoekman, Bernard; Winters, L. Alan - 2014
The substantial literature investigating the links between trade, trade policy, and labor market outcomes - both returns to labor and employment - has generated a number of stylized facts, but many open questions remain. This paper surveys the subset of the literature focusing on trade policy...
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Russian Federation, the World Trade Organization, and the Eurasian Customs Union : Tariff and Non-Tariff Policy Challenges
Ferrantino, Michael J. - 2017
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 … Kazakhstan, would increase by an estimated $194 million, measured against a 2008 baseline. The impact of NTMs in Russia and the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968701
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Russian Trade and Foreign Direct Investment Policy at the Crossroads
Tarr, David G. - 2017
This paper summarizes the estimates of what Russia will get from World Trade Organization accession and why. A key … finding is the estimate that Russia will gain about $53 billion per year in the medium term from World Trade Organization … sectors. The paper summarizes the principal reform commitments that Russia has undertaken as part of its World Trade …
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The Structure of Import Tariffs in the Russian Federation : 2001-05
Tarr, David G. - 2016
the actual tariff rates by about 1 to 3 percentage points, depending on the year. The average tariff in Russia has … places Russia's tariffs at a level slightly higher than other middle-income countries and considerably higher than the OECD …
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