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The Internet has transformed the way countries trade by reducing the costs of exporting. This paper quantifies the … impact of Internet adoption on international trade. It shows that the Internet has a positive, nuanced, impact on … international trade: bilateral exports are more affected when Internet adoption increases in the exporter than importer. A 10 …
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the World Bank in response to the global economic crisis of 2008-2009. Given trends in the imposition of new crisis …
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Since the 1995 inception of the World Trade Organization (WTO), developing countries have become some of the most …
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liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …
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that reports using the internet to pay bills. Further, the absolute values of ordinary least squares estimates of the …
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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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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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With the success of the World Trade Organization and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in … literature on non-tariff measures in the world trading system. It provides a set of stylized facts based on available data on non … measures in the trade literature with a focus on the rules and institutions that govern non-tariff measures in the world …
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This paper provides a detailed explanation how the law of the World Trade Organization regulates environmental … relevant World Trade Organization rules and case law, including the recent Canada-Renewable Energy case. The paper also makes … specific recommendations for how World Trade Organization law can be improved and discusses the literature on reform proposals …
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countries fight about under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. The paper characterizes the scope of products, as …
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