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National labour market institutions interact across national boundaries when product markets are global. Labour market policies can thus entail spill-overs, a fact widely ignored in the academic literature. This paper studies the effects of wage subsidies in an international duopoly model with...
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of producers in high-income countries and less adversely affect developing country trade. Copyright Kiel Institute 2013 …
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This paper describes the United States recently enacted Africa Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) and assesses its quantitative impact on African exports. The AGOA expands the scope of preferential access of Africa's exports to the United States in key areas such as clothing. However, its medium...
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comparative advantage (trade) and foreign direct investment flows. It discusses several forms and the prevalence of forced labour …
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Small and poor countries pose a challenge for the World Trade Organization (WTO). These countries have acquired a …
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manufacturing; and the mobilization of resources to deal with the trade problems of least developed countries. WTO Members have … country members include vital tariff lines. The initiatives on trade facilitation and aid for trade can play a valuable …
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unfair comparative advantage in trade by using child labour. The results indicate that multinationals are highly sensitive …
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way, derive a set of diagnostic statistics from readily available trade and trade barriers databases and use them to … (facilitating trade by dealing with trade-impeding factors operating behind the frontier); all in a way designed to make …
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