. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …The collapse in trade and contraction of output that occurred during 2008-09 was comparable to, and in many countries … more severe than, the Great Depression of 1930, but did not give rise to the rampant protectionism that followed the Great …

Trade policy commitments to lower import tariffs and to maintain tariffs at low levels entail short and long … trade policy flexibilities is still relatively nascent, especially for emerging economies. This paper provides a rich …, empirically-based assessment of ways that Turkey exercised trade policy flexibilities during the global economic crisis of 2008 …

integrate faster internally than vis-?-vis the rest of the world: policies applied to trade with other ASEAN countries were … virtually the same as those applied to trade with rest of the world. Moreover, the recent commitments scheduled under AFAS did …Can regionalism do what multilateralism has so far failed to do?promote greater openness of services markets? Although …

This paper provides new estimates of the global gains from multilateral trade reform and their distribution among … developing countries in the presence of trade preferences. Particular attention is given to agriculture, as farmers constitute … (Version 6.05) and the LINKAGE model of the global economy are used to examine the impact first of current merchandise trade …

a presentation of the core structure of simulation models for trade policy analysis. It shows that a few share …-dependent sectors. The rest of the survey deals with a range of applications relating to trade policy, internal and external balances …

The authors examine the effects of WTO agreements and domestic trade policy reforms on production, welfare, and poverty …. (2) Free world trade has similar, but larger, impacts. (3) Domestic trade liberalization induces an expansion of … liberalization effects far outweigh those of free world trade when these scenarios are combined. (5) Remittances constitute a …

If trade tensions between the United States and certain trading partners escalate into a full-blown trade war, what …?the European Union, China, Mexico, Canada, and Japan. The paper then considers four possible responses by developing countries to … this trade war: (i) join the trade war; (ii) do nothing; (iii) pursue regional trade agreements (RTAs) with all regions …

countries, trade preferences have proven a stumbling block to developing country support for multilateral liberalization. The … WTO-based concern …

as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power …

The authors examine the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in … world markets. To explain higher protection in sectors where a large share is imported from these countries, they extend the …