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This paper presents new data on the content of preferential trade agreements. The data contain detailed information on the 18 policy areas most frequently covered in preferential trade agreements, focusing on the stated objectives, substantive commitments, and other aspects such as transparency,...
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This paper analyses the results of the financial services negotiations under the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) at the World Trade Organization (WTO). It shows that the negotiations have contributed to more stable and transparent policy regimes in many developing and transition...
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This paper examines liberalization of the basic telecommunications sector in a number of Asian countries and the role of the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) in this process. It begins by explaining the working of the GATS as a mechanism for multilateral liberalization efforts. It...
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Beleaguered by mutual recrimination between rich and poor countries, squeezed by the zero-sum arithmetic of a shrinking global carbon budget, and overtaken by shifts in economic and hence bargaining power between these countries, international cooperation on climate change has floundered. Given...
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This paper estimates the impact of China’s exchange rate changes on exports of competitor countries in third markets …, a 10 percent appreciation of China’s real exchange rate boosts a developing country’s exports of a typical 4-digit …
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whether preferential access boosts exports of eligible products in general and apparel specifically. The end of the Multi … data at the country-product-year level (1992-2017). The analysis finds that AGOA boosted African apparel exports and the … GSP expansion increased African exports of other eligible products. While the marginal impacts on African apparel exports …
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sophistication of a country’s exports with the average income level of destination countries, we show that the performance of a … et al. (2007) as a point of departure, we suggest that it is not just the composition of exports but their destination …
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In this paper, we seek to make a twofold contribution. On outcomes, we focus on manufacturing exports as well as on …
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