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This paper builds a tractable partial equilibrium model to help explain the role of trade preferences given to developing countries, as well as the efficacy of various subsidy policies. The model allows for firm level heterogeneity in demand and productivity and lets the mass of firms that enter...
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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...
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ahead of other elements may limit the market effectiveness and even make subsequent reform steps more difficult …
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The power sector reform experiences of developing countries vary greatly. To help explain this from a political economy … investments. Reform advocates never took political economy issues into full consideration. Yet, policy makers have had … sociopolitical as well as technical motives for reform, such as crisis response. International norms and competition for foreign …
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Morocco charted its own distinctive path of power sector reform. It selectively introduced private sector participation … through this selective approach to reform have come somewhat at the expense of the financial viability of the incumbent …
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The Philippines power sector underwent a substantial and largely complete reform process. Following a severe shortage … National Power Corporation extremely burdensome, the Electric Power Industry Reform Act was passed in 2001. This was intended … at the wholesale and retail levels. Although the implementation of the full reform program took longer than originally …
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Pakistan's power sector underwent a substantial, if protracted, reform process. Beginning with an independent power …
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benefits of reform from materializing until much later. The failed first attempt with the Bujagali Hydropower independent power … substantial improvements in operational efficiency and accelerating service coverage. Although the reform model was eventually …
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Two successive waves of reform have fundamentally altered the structure and organization of Kenya's vibrant power … wave -- beginning in 2002 and led by domestic reform champions -- the thrust of first-wave reforms was continued, with the …
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The paper takes stock of eight country studies and a cross-country analysis to review the experience with subsidy reforms in the Middle East and North Africa region between 2010 and 2014. This unprecedented period of subsidy reforms occurred during a period of extraordinary political changes,...
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