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Iraq; 2005 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statement by the Executive Director for Iraq
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005
indicators over the last twenty years. There is relatively little firm data on the balance of payments other than on oil exports …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005252588
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Botswana; 2005 Article IV Consultation: Staff Report; Staff Supplement; Public Information Notice on the Executive Board Discussion; and Statements by the Authorities of Botswana
International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2006
The staff report for the 2005 Article IV Consultation on Botswana highlights key issues, recent developments, and policy discussions. The authorities are strengthening their structural reform agenda and moving ahead with sector-specific development programs with a view to sustaining annual...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599088
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Dhows to Planes: Trade Relations between the Arabian Gulf and Africa and their Impacts on Development
Githinji, Mwangi wa - In: Journal of African Development 12 (2010) 1
establishing what the volume of trade is, we examine the sophistication of exports from both regions to each other in an attempt to … process of industrial transformation because of the kind of goods traded. We will examine the sophistication of exports using … the ten groups of exports created by Sanjaya Lall (Lall, 2000; Lall et al., 2006). We will end the paper with some …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010938811
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Transparency of Export Restrictions: A Checklist Promoting Good Practice
Fliess, Barbara - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2014
The incidence of export taxes, prohibitions and other measures that raise export prices, limit export quantities or place conditions on exporting is on the rise. Transparency can help mitigate the negative effects of export restrictions by enabling affected stakeholders to better understand and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011277118
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Trade policy, export expansion, human capital and growth
McNab, Robert; Moore, Robert - In: The Journal of International Trade & Economic Development 7 (1998) 2, pp. 237-256
countries not only by directly enhancing exports but also through a feedback (or multiplier) effect. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009219623
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Strategic Competition and Optimal Parallel Import Policy
Saggi, Kamal; Roy, Santanu - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2011
This paper shows that parallel import policy can act as an instrument of strategic trade policy. We demonstrate this result in two-country international duopoly where a domestic monopolist competes with a rival firm in the foreign market if it chooses to incur the fixed investment cost of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009320358
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Strategic trade policy and non-linear subsidy : in the case of price competition
Yoshino, Hisao - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2011
In a strategic trade policy, it is assumed, in this paper, that a government changes disbursement or levy method so that the reaction function of home firm approaches infinitely close to that of foreign firm. In the framework of Bertrand-Nash equilibrium, Eaton and Grossman[1986] showed that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009351427
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The Role of Trade Barriers in SME Internationalisation
Fliess, Barbara; Busquets, Carlos - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2006
This paper discusses trade barriers that SMEs are likely to encounter in export markets and available policy tools aimed at their reduction or elimination. Drawing on recent work in the Trade Directorate and elsewhere, key types of barriers are identified based on a review of business surveys...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962821
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Trade Policy: Promoting Investment for Development
Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de …; … - 2005
developing countries. A two-by-two taxonomy is used to analyse the impact of policies affecting imports and exports in both host …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10004962851
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Strategic Trade Policy Under Incomplete Information
Maggi, G. - Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International … - 1997
This paper examines equilibrium trade policies when firms have better information than governments about the profitability of the industry. Contrary to the intuition that the policy makers' lack of information should reduce their incentives to engage in strategic trade intervention, the analysis...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005776829