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Reducing Trade Costs in East Africa : Deep Regional Integration and Multilateral Action

Balistreri, Edward J. - 2017

There is substantial evidence that with the progressive global decline in tariffs over several decades, trade costs are a more significant barrier to trade than tariffs, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper decomposes trade costs into three categories: costs that can be lowered by trade...

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Economic Integration in the Lower Congo Region : Opening the Kinshasa-Brazzaville Bottleneck

Brülhart, Marius - 2017

This working paper assesses cross-border economic integration in the Lower Congo region. It focuses on the Kinshasa-Brazzaville conurbation, which is projected to become Africa's largest urban area by 2025, and is already serving as the gateway to large hinterlands. Despite their size and...

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The Impact of Regional Trade Agreements and Trade Facilitation in the Middle East and North Africa Region

Dennis, Allen - 2016

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) region's trade performance over the past two decades has been disappointing. Efforts to boost trade through a plethora of regional trade agreements (RTAs) are underway. This study examines the potential contribution of regional trade agreements, as well as...

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Evaluating the Trade Effect of Developing Regional Trade Agreements : A Semi-Parametric Approach

Coulibaly, Souleymane - 2016

Many recent papers have pointed to ambiguous trade effects of developing regional trade agreements (RTAs), calling for a reassessment of their economic merits. The author focuses on seven such agreements currently in force in Sub-Saharan Africa (ECOWAS and SADC), Asia (AFTA and SAPTA) and Latin...

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GVC Participation and Deep Integration in Brazil

Hollweg, Claire Honore - 2018

Co-operation and Development/World Trade Organization's Trade in Value Added Database to assess Brazil's current … for Brazil to increase global value chain?related trade. One avenue to raise participation in global value chains is … through (deeper) preferential trade agreements, and to this end the paper characterizes the level of integration of Brazil …

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Trade Liberalization and Integration of Domestic Output Markets in Brazil

Reis, Jose Guilherme - 2018

This paper describes how different policy distortions have been impeding better integration of Brazil's external and … promote better allocation of resources across the economy. The main conclusion of the paper is that Brazil could gain … significantly from opening to foreign trade. Yet, for Brazil to take full advantage of the opportunities that external integration …

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Trade Reform and Regional Dynamics : Evidence from 25 Years of Brazilian Matched Employer-Employee Data

Dix-Carneiro, Rafael - 2017

This paper empirically studies the dynamics of labor market adjustment following the Brazilian trade reform of the 1990s. The paper uses variation in industry-speci?c tari? cuts interacted with initial regional industry mix to measure trade-induced local labor demand shocks and examines regional...

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