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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012972682
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Preference Erosion and Multilateral Trade Liberalization
Francois, Joseph F.; Hoekman, Bernard; Manchin, Miriam - 2005
WTO-based concern …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014061965
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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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747697
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Russian Federation, the World Trade Organization, and the Eurasian Customs Union : Tariff and Non-Tariff Policy Challenges
Ferrantino, Michael J. - 2017
This paper assesses issues relating to tariffs and nontariff measures (NTMs) in relation to Russia's World Trade … Organization (WTO) and Eurasian Customs Union (ECU) commitments. The analysis finds that full implementation of Russia's WTO tariff …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968701
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Economic Integration in the Lower Congo Region : Opening the Kinshasa-Brazzaville Bottleneck
Brülhart, Marius - 2017
This working paper assesses cross-border economic integration in the Lower Congo region. It focuses on the Kinshasa-Brazzaville conurbation, which is projected to become Africa's largest urban area by 2025, and is already serving as the gateway to large hinterlands. Despite their size and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975561
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Economic Community of West African States : Fiscal Revenue Implications of the Prospective Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union
Zouhonbi, Simplice G - 2020
This paper applies a partial equilibrium model to analyze the fiscal revenue implications of the prospective economic partnership agreement between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union. The authors find that, under standard import price and substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012830035
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Economic Community of West African States : Fiscal Revenue Implications of the Prospective Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union
Zouhon Bi, Simplice G. - 2016
This paper applies a partial equilibrium model to analyze the fiscal revenue implications of the prospective economic partnership agreement between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union. The authors find that, under standard import price and substitution...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747707
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Is the WTO Passe?
Bagwell, Kyle - 2018
The WTO has delivered policy outcomes that are very different from those likely to emerge out of the recent wave of … preferential trade agreements (PTAs). Should economists see this as an efficient institutional hand-off, where the WTO has carried … growing economics literature on international trade agreements and argues on this basis that the WTO is not pass?. Rather, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012937212
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Reducing Distortions in International Commodity Markets : An Agenda for Multilateral Cooperation
Hoekman, Bernard - 2017
as a result affect world prices for the specific products concerned. Market failures and market structures (market power …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975528
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Determinants of Trade Policy Responses to the 2008 Financial Crisis
Gawande, Kishore - 2017
. World Trade Organization disciplines raise the cost of using trade policies for member countries and have proved to be a …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975670