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One reason donors provide foreign aid is to support their exports to aid-recipient countries. Time series data for Germany suggests an average return of between US$ 1.04 to US$ 1.50 for each US dollar of aid spent by Germany. Although this is well below previous estimates, the value is robust to...
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protect EU growers of certain fruits and vegetables against international competition. We represent these trade costs in the … Africa’s exports of tomatoes to the EU from 2008 to 2013, using the gravity model of trade. Our results show that at both the … extensive and intensive margins of trade, the high stringency of EU pesticide standard prevents new entry into the EU market …
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developing-country trade. Therefore, as part of a comprehensive agreement on climate change, new WTO rules could be negotiated … that would prohibit the extreme form of action while possibly allowing trade actions based on domestic carbon content as a …
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Most economic analyses of climate change have focused on the aggregate impact on countries of mitigation actions. We depart first in disaggregating the impact by sector, focusing particularly on manufacturing output and exports because of the potential growth consequences. Second, we decompose...
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, potentially creating pressure for trade action. A key factor affecting the impact of any border taxes is whether they are based on … seriously damage developing country trade. …
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The negotiations on trade in services at the WTO have so far produced little liberalization beyond levels unilaterally …
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There is a fundamental shift taking place in the world economy to which the multilateral trading system has failed to adapt. The Doha process focused on issues of limited significance while the burning issues of the day were not even on the negotiating agenda. The paper advances five...
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just the World Trade Organization but other multilateral institutions as well; and (5) despite shifts in economic power …
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This paper focuses on self-selection into trade by exporting and importing firms, and on the presence of differential … heterogeneity and the connection between firm-level performance and international trade. They provide evidence on the remarkable …
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2009. We employ a theoretically justified gravity model which incorporates the extensive margin of trade and accounts for … variables. Next, we estimate the model for each trade margin (extensive and intensive) separately to evaluate the effects of … more integrated into regional production networks and this has had a positive impact in terms of increasing trade volumes …
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