Greater trade integration within Middle East and North Africa region is expected to happen through the completion of … the Pan-Arab Free Trade Agreement. However; recent studies suggest that when resource rich and resource poor countries … give preferences to each other; as in PAFTA; the resource rich country is very likely to suffer from trade diversion. Our …

East and North Africa. Results suggest that within Pan Arab Free Trade Agreement (PAFTA), there is significant trade … creation for resource poor countries associated with regional integration, and no evidence of trade diversion. In resource rich … countries, however, there is evidence of pure trade diversion in both resource-rich/labor-abundant countries and resource …

considering the employment channel when studying the poverty impacts of trade reforms. …

free-trade worldwide. This paper argues that the former may (partially) help explain the latter. In a model of endogenous … determination of trade protection through lobbying, where the government is also concerned by income redistribution among owners of … (acquisition of existing domestic firms, or entry by foreign firms) or its trade orientation (whether foreign capital enters the …

capture the heterogeneity in trade protection at the tariff line level. The pro-poor bias indicators suggest that SSA's trade …

We measure the extent to which Swiss market access would be affected in a global trade war. After calculating the … change in tariffs at the tariff-line level that Swiss exporters would face in a trade war, we then aggregate them at the … trade war, with an increase in tariffs faced by Swiss exporters of 34 percentage points. The largest increases in tariffs …

change in the direction of the trade pattern, immiserizing tariff reductions may occur. Here it is shown that, in the mirror … case when foreign-owned factors tend to promote the existing trade pattern (i.e., trade-promoting), similar results can be … obtained. On the other hand, when foreign factors are trade substituting, tariff reductions cannot be immiserizing. …