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This paper examines the concept of trade facilitation in services from the perspective of the recent literature on the determinants of services trade. The aim is to conceptualize trade facilitation in this area as a dimension of international integration beyond the baseline restrictiveness of...
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Beyond their key contribution to value chains in all sectors, services represent a centrally important source of economic and export diversification. This paper discusses how to promote trade in services as a channel for growth, employment, and diversification by assessing services trade costs...
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growth was driven by new entrants rather than by incumbent firms whose competitiveness might have been nurtured by the big …
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that allows qualified firms in Serbia to clear customs from within their own warehouse rather than at the customs office … firms that adopted in-house clearance for import shipments. The program compressed the distribution of clearance times for … adopting firms, but the estimated effects on median clearance times, inspection rates, and import value were not statistically …
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. This paper reports the results from a survey of 153 freight forwarding firms in Serbia. Respondents report on firm …
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The 2013 World Trade Organization ministerial in Bali produced a comprehensive framework agreement on trade facilitation. If fully implemented, the agreement should increase the speed and reduce the cost of moving goods across international borders. But which reforms are most likely to improve...
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shipments, and the number of importing firms per product-country pair and the number of countries per firm-product pair. A back …
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Surveys of export promotion agencies suggest that that they tend to focus on helping firms become exporters as a means … promotion agencies in helping entry into exporting. This paper fills this gap with a panel of exporting and non-exporting firms … exports mainly by helping firms enter into and survive in export markets. The impact on the intensive margin of exporting …
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This paper analyzes the impacts of selected trade facilitation measures on international trade flows. A gravity model is used to estimate four equations: a pooled cross-section model; a fixed-effects model; a random effects model; and a Poisson maximum likelihood estimator. The contribution of...
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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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