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trading system and a change to trade at world prices eliminates the terms of trade advantage of the Eastern European economies …
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Russia had more-or-less completed the privatization of its manufacturing and natural resource sectors by the end of 1997. And in February 1998, the annual inflation rate at last dipped into the single digits. Privatization should have helped with stronger micro-foundations for growth. The...
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The World Bank Group recently adopted two overarching goals -- the end of extreme, chronic poverty in the world by 2030 …
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This paper revisits and expands the evidence on the impact of trade shocks on intra-state conflict with a large sample of developing countries in the 1960-2010 period. The results suggest that increases in the prices of a country's exported commodities raise the country's risk of civil conflict...
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Trade (GATT) and subsequent World Trade Organization (WTO) on choice of policy instruments, as well as how multilateral …
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current system of commitments boosts trade by between 10 and 30 percent, compared with a world where at any moment tariffs …
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Recent literature has shown evidence of positive contributions of export promotion agencies around the world in raising … their products. This paper describes the characteristics of export promotion agencies around the world, using a novel … database from the World Bank, in collaboration with the International Trade Center in Geneva, covering 2005-10. In addition, it …
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shipment times and trade costs. For the world, the average reduction in shipment time will range between 1.2 and 2.5 percent …
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represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …
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The World Trade Organization has been until recently an effective framework for cooperation because it has continually … mechanism that has driven the World Trade Organization process to previous successes. The second is new restraints on …
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