Anger and optimism are coexisting themes related to the growing liberalization of international trade and the resultant … liberalization. By fully embracing trade liberalization, the industrialized countries could allow the LDCs to realize substantial …. In promoting worldwide trade liberalization, the World Trade Organization (WTO) plays a crucial role. However …

This paper presents promising methodologies for modeling and quantifying nontariff barriers (NTB) to trade in the … on trade and to methods that provide some quantitative estimates of the impact of such barriers on market equilibrium …, trade flows, economic efficiency, and welfare. Given the heterogeneous nature of these regulations, a unifying methodology …

China’s agricultural and trade policies have been shifting despite little change in policy objectives. This paper …

's most important macroeconomic policy issue. Corporate performance continues to improve, but faces new restructuring … turbulence, is a major concern only if it persists. Japan's trade has shifted away from the United States to Asia. East Asian …

that regulated carbon market policy should be designed to support the capacity of such entrepreneurial firms to engage in … how policy influences the entrepreneurial firms' capacity to secure finance. …

of trade liberalization. …International trade can be inhibited in two ways; through the use of mechanisms that directly alter the flow of goods … and poor transparency in the rules of trade. The former includes tariffs and other border measures, subsidies and non …

stage of the transition when labor becomes mobile, the liberalization of the price of the nontradables can proceed faster … than that of the wage rate. This policy combination increases employment and output and reduces the shortage for the non …