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The Belt and Road Initiative seeks to deepen China's international integration by improving infrastructure and strengthening trade and investment linkages with countries along the old Silk Road, thereby linking it to Europe. This paper uses detailed bilateral trade data for 1995-2015 to assess...
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Use of temporary trade barriers has proliferated across countries, industries, and even policy instruments. This paper constructs a panel of bilateral, product-level United States steel imports that are matched to a unique data set on trade policy exclusions that are associated with the 2002...
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The authors examine the trade policy response of Latin American governments to the rapid growth of China and India in … between domestically produced goods and Chinese goods, whereas lower levels of protection toward goods imported from India can …
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in India, declining an average of 0.6 percent (sugar) and 0.3 percent (cane) a year. During the same 29 years the free … market price of sugar fluctuated widely (expressed in India rupees) but in real terms increased about 1.3 percent a year … sugar prices of US 13-15 cents a pound or higher, India's domestic prices were roughly equivalent to, or below, world …
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India and Pakistan, the two largest economies in South Asia, share a common border, culture and history. Despite the … than half a percent of India's total trade, whereas Pakistan's trade with India was 5.4 percent of its total trade. However …, the recent thaw in India-Pakistan trade relations could signal a change. Pakistan has agreed to grant most favored nation …
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This paper assesses the impact that a potential liberalization of sugar regimes in OECD countries could have on household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to 11 Brazilian states to capture the fact that some local...
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Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton Initiative that involves two issues: cutting cotton subsidies and tariffs, and assisting farm productivity growth in Africa. The authors provide estimates of the potential...
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Current coffee prices are at record lows and below the cost of production for many producers in Central America. Moreover, the coffee crisis is structural, and changes in supply and demand do not indicate a quick recovery of prices. So, coffee producers in Central America are facing new...
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This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the initial shock due to the pandemic under the assumption that products that are more labor intensive in production are more affected through workers' morbidity and containment...
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This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New Silk Road, on the 71 countries potentially involved. The initiative consists of several infrastructure investment projects to improve the land and maritime transportation in the...
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