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The importance of regional economic integration in Africa
Madyo, Manone Regina - 2008
Motivation of virtually all regional economic integration (REI) initiatives has been prospect of enhanced economic growth. Although REI's role in contributing to growth and development was recognised and acknowledged, its importance in Africa has never been properly outlined. Theoretical...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009457694
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Assessing the Economic Impacts of Incorporating Romania's Agricultural and Food Sectors into EU's Customs Union: An Applied General Equilibrium Approach
Scrieciu, S. Serban - 2004
Joining the European Union club implies, among many other policy changes, full integration of Romania's economy into EU's customs union. This is expected to have significant implications for domestic farmers and food processors. The paper constructs a single-country Applied General Equilibrium...
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Assessing the Economic Impacts of Incorporating Romania's Agricultural and Food Sectors into EU's Customs Union: An Applied General Equilibrium Approach
Scrieciu, Silviu S. - 2004
Join the European Union club implies, among many other policy changes, full integration of Romania's expected to have significant implications for domestic farmers and food processors. The paper constructs a single-country Applied General Equilibrium (AGE) model to investigate the impact of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009446658
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Three essays on the economics of preferential trade agreements: free trade areas, rules of origin and customs unions
Xiao, Renfeng - 2010
) (World Bank, 2005). This dissertation contains three essays with three different models of trade under oligopoly to analyze …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009464004
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Multilateral Trade and Agricultural Policy Reforms in Sugar Markets (Revised)
Elobeid, Amani E.; Beghin, John C. - 2005
distortions in world sugar markets using a partial-equilibrium international sugar model calibrated on 2002 market data and …, Turkey), expand production when all distortions are removed. Consumption distortions have marginal impacts on world markets …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009443055
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Regional integration of equity markets in Sub-Saharan Africa
Piesse J.; Hearn B. - 2005
Equity markets in developing and emerging economies have grown in number and importance as a result of financial market globalisation. However, their role in economic growth and development is enhanced if nascent markets are integrated with well-established ones. Market integration, measured by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009480491
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The Challenge of Implementing the Overlapping Regional Trade Agreements in Egypt
Afifi, Tamer Mohamed Ahmed - 2007
Beside its membership (1995) in the World Trade Organization (WTO), Egypt joined Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) such … Regionalen Handelsabkommen (RHA) beteiligt. So schloss sich Ägypten 1997 der Größeren Arabischen Freihandelszone (engl. Greater …
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The Doha Agenda and Agricultural Trade Reform: The Role of Economic Analysis
Martin, William J.; Anderson, Kym - 2006
This paper shows that research on international agricultural trade reform can make much greater contributions to understanding than was feasible in earlier trade negotiations. Part of this is due to improvements in the basic data on production, consumption and trade associated with the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009442475
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An Economy-wide Analysis of Impacts of WTO Tiered Formula for Tariff Reduction on Taiwan
Hsu, Shih-Hsun; Chang, C.; Li, S.; Chen, Y. - 2006
In this study we use Taiwan as a case study to provide an economy-wide analysis of impacts on Taiwan of WTO tariff … General Equilibrium Model with a WTO module (TAIGEM-WTO, hereafter) that is a multi-sectoral computable general equilibrium …
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A Framework for Estimating U.S. WTO Domestic Support to 2015
Quiroga, Jose - 2006
observations arising from our analysis. The baseline scenario extends the classification of programs in WTO notifications to 2015 … programs; and estimates for WTO boxes and the overall value of production. The main results of the baseline scenario suggest … minimis percentages, commitments on Total AMS and overall support. This enables us to better understand implications for WTO …
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