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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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Trade Facilitation in Services : A Conceptual and Empirical Analysis

Gillson, Ian - 2020

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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Facilitating Trade in Services

Hoekman, Bernard - 2020

In 2016, the Government of India proposed negotiations on an agreement to facilitate trade in services to complement the 2013 World Trade Organization Trade Facilitation Agreement in goods. The proposal did not find much support, but plurilateral talks launched in 2017 on various policy areas...

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Liberalizing Versus Facilitating Mode 4 Trade in Services

Shingal, Anirudh - 2020

The growing importance of services trade for countries across the world is well-documented in the services and trade literatures. At the same time, regulatory and administrative barriers to the movement of service suppliers to deliver services internationally have resulted in very low shares of...

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Openness and Industrial Response in a Wal-Mart World : A Case Study of Mexican Soaps, Detergents, and Surfactant Producers

Javorcik, Beata Smarzynska - 2006

This paper uses a case study approach to explore the effects of NAFTA and GATT membership on innovation and trade in the Mexican soaps, detergents, and surfactants (SDS) industry. Several basic findings emerge. First, the most fundamental effect of the NAFTA and the GATT on the SDS industry was...

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Protection, Openness, and Factor Adjustment : Evidence from the Manufacturing Sector in Uruguay

Casacuberta, Carlos - 2006

collar employment in Uruguay during a period of trade liberalization when average tariff protection fell from 43 to 14 …

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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 internal product markets and discusses how these distortions have prevented domestic firms from benefiting from multiple sources of efficiency gains. The paper first focuses on...

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The Heterogeneous Effects of Trade Policy Uncertainty : How Much Do Trade Commitments Boost Trade?

Osnago, Alberto - 2018

binding tariff commitments under trade agreements (multilateral and regional agreements) and applied tariffs -- what is also … are heterogeneous. On average and at the current level of tariff commitments, the paper estimates that the elimination of … water, without any change of the applied tariff, would increase the probability of exporting by 6 percent and trade volumes …

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From Currency Depreciation to Trade Reform : How to Take Egyptian Exports to New Levels?

Youssef, Hoda - 2019

ratio of non-tariff measures. Policy recommendations include a call to improve external competitiveness by fostering and …

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Robots, Tasks and Trade

Artuc, Erhan - 2019

This paper examines the effects of robotization on trade patterns, wages and welfare. It develops a Ricardian model with two-stage production and trade in intermediate and final goods in which robots can take over some tasks previously performed by humans in a subset of industries. An increase...

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