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Measuring the Impacts of Global Trade Reform with Optimal Aggregators of Distortions
Laborde, David - 2017
, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple …
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Effects of Trade Liberalization on Textile and Apparel Exports from Sub-Sahara Africa
Van Biesebroeck, Johannes - 2019
This paper estimates the impact of market access liberalization in high-income countries on sub-Saharan African exports. The methodology exploits the large reduction in trade barriers that was induced by three unilateral trade liberalization initiatives: (1) the dismantling of the Multi-Fiber...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012865444
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Assessing Socioeconomic Resilience to Floods in 90 Countries
Hallegatte, S. - 2017
This paper presents a model to assess the socioeconomic resilience to natural disasters of an economy, defined as its capacity to mitigate the impact of disaster-related asset losses on welfare, and a tool to help decision makers identify the most promising policy options to reduce welfare...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012969268
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Changing Contributions of Different Agricultural Policy Instruments to Global Reductions in Trade and Welfare
Croser, Johanna L. - 2017
Trade negotiators and policy advisors are keen to know the relative contribution of different farm policy instruments to international trade and economic welfare. Nominal rates of assistance or producer support estimates are incomplete indicators, especially when (especially in developing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976489
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Grow, Invest, Insure : A Game Plan to End Extreme Poverty by 2030
Gill, Indermit S. - 2017
today -- the world has learned about antipoverty strategies that work. These experiences should inform the final push to end … extreme poverty. In the 1960s and 1970s, when close to half of the world was living in extreme poverty, the approach that … parts of the developing world?it became clear that the two-point strategy to make economies grow and enable people to invest …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012967416
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012936212
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Trade Facilitation and Country Size
Amin, Mohammad - 2017
It is argued that compared with large countries, small countries rely more on trade and therefore they are more likely to adopt liberal trading policies. The present paper extends this idea beyond the conventional trade openness measures by analyzing the relationship between country size and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973796
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Impact Evaluation of Trade Interventions : Paving the Way
Cadot, Olivier - 2017
The focus of trade policy has shifted in recent years from economy-wide reductions in tariffs and trade restrictions toward targeted interventions to facilitate trade and promote exports. Most of these latter interventions are based on the new mantra of "aid-for-trade" rather than on hard...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975644
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Would Freeing Up World Trade Reduce Poverty and Inequality? The Vexed Role of Agricultural Distortions
Anderson, Kym - 2017
the remaining distortions to world merchandise trade on poverty and inequality globally and in various developing …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976094
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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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976230