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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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Economic Implications of a Potential Free Trade Agreement between India and the United States
Fukase, Emiko - 2018
This paper explores the economic implications of a potential free trade agreement between India and the United States. A series of simulations is conducted assuming 100 percent ad valorem equivalent tariff cuts for goods and 50 percent cuts for services. The overall impacts are likely to be...
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Unlocking Bangladesh-India Trade : Emerging Potential and the Way Forward
De, Prabir - 2017
The primary objective of this study is to analyze the impact on Bangladesh of increased market access in India, both within a static production structure and also identifying dynamic gains. The study shows that Bangladesh and India would both gain by opening up their markets to each other....
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Does it Matter Who You Sign with? Comparing the Impacts of North-South and South-South Trade Agreements on Bilateral Trade
Behar, Alberto - 2017
Free trade agreements lead to a rise in bilateral trade regardless of whether the signatories are developed or developing countries. Furthermore, the percentage increase in bilateral trade is higher for South-South agreements than for North-South agreements. In this paper, the results are robust...
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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...
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Revisiting the Trade Impact of the African Growth and Opportunity Act : A Synthetic Control Approach
Kassa, Woubet - 2019
This study examines the impact of the African Growth and Opportunity Act using the synthetic control method, a quasi-experimental approach. The novelty in the approach is that it addresses problems of estimation that are prevalent in nonexperimental methods used to analyze the impact of...
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Subjective Well-Being and Peaceful Uprisings
Witte, Caroline T. - 2019
This study analyzes whether subjective well-being measures can explain variation in peaceful uprisings, in addition to the objective measures typically used in analyses of this type of events. Using data on uprisings and subjective well-being for 118 countries from 2007 to 2014 -- a period...
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Political Leadership, Conflict, and the Prospects for Constitutional Peace
Jennings, Colin - 2016
leaders such that it leads them to choose conflict rather than compromise. Nonetheless, it is not argued that such a peace is …
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Post-Conflict Justice and Sustainable Peace
Gates, Scott - 2016
No systematic study has examined the effect of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace on a global basis. This … long-term effects of post-conflict justice on the duration of peace after conflict. It uses a Cox proportional hazard model … to analyze the influence of the various types of post-conflict justice on the length of the peace period before the …
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Quasi-Fiscal Deficits in the Electricity Sector of the Middle East and North Africa : Sources and Size
Camos Daurella, Daniel - 2017
The annual electricity investments needed in the Middle East and North Africa region to keep up with demand have been estimated at about 3 percent of the region's projected gross domestic product. However, in most economies of the region, the ability to make those investments is limited by...
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