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ASEAN and the Challenge of Closer Economic Integration

Intal, Ponciano Jr. S. - 1997

From a preferential tariff rate, ASEAN has decided to move to a free trade area by the first decade of the 21st century …

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Philippines-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (PJEPA): An Initial Ex-post Review

Medalla, Erlinda M.; Ledda, Veredigna M. - 2013

While it is too early to undertake rigorous quantitative analysis on the impact of the Philippines-Japan Economic Partnership Agreement (PJEPA) on the Philippines, this initial ex-post study concludes that based on several key indicators the country has not suffered major adjustment costs...

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Evaluation of the APEC environmental goods initiative: A dominant supplier approach

Manzano, George; Prado, Shanti Aubren - 2015

The paper evaluates the feasibility of sectoral liberalization of environmental goods for the Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC). Using the model originally developed by Wonnacott, it argues for the liberalization of goods predominantly supplied by APEC members, thereby minimizing the free...

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Globalization and developing countries - a shrinking tax base?

Aizenman, Joshua; Jinjarak, Yothin - 2006

This paper evaluates the impact of globalization on tax bases of countries at varying stages of development. We see globalization as a process that induces countries to embrace greater trade and financial integration. This in turn should shift their tax revenue from easy to collect taxes...

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Reassessing effective protection rates in a trade in tasks perspective: Evolution of trade policy in factory Asia

Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - 2012

series of counter-factual simulation methods aimed at isolating the specific contribution of changes in tariff policies, in … compare the average propagation length of a cost-push linked to a sudden change in tariff duties, identifying those sectors …

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Trade Tariffs and Self-Enforcing Environmental Agreements

Eichner, Thomas; Pethig, Rüdiger - 2013

countries import fossil fuel and their tariff takes the form of a subsidy of fuel consumption and a tax on the production of the …

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Tariffs versus production subsidies as industry protection

Ogawa, Yoshitomo; Ono, Yoshiyasu - 2013

This paper provides a welfare comparison of a tariff with a combination of a production subsidy to, and a commodity tax …, including where the initial tariff is above the optimal tariff, where a certain output level of a tariff-imposed commodity must … combination of the production subsidy and the commodity tax and show it to be superior to the tariff from the welfare viewpoint. …

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Endogeneous Distribution and the Political Economy of Trade Policy

Das, Satya P. - 1999

This paper examines the political economy of trade policy in the context of a small open economy, when factor ownerships are variable. The median voter hypothesis is used. In the long run, both trade protection and distribution of wealth and income are endogenous, and the paper investigates how...

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Foreign capital inflow and its welfare implications in a developing country context

Mukherjee, Rudrarup - 2017

In a small open developing country context, the author considers a three-sector general equilibrium framework and tries to find out the effects of foreign capital inflow on welfare of the country. Comparative-static results show that foreign capital inflow widens the skilled-unskilled wage gap...

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Tax reform and the environment in developing economies: Is a double dividend possible?

Coxhead, Ian - 2000

We reconsider some analytical arguments on the double dividend, focusing on the small open developing economy case. Compared with the large, mature industrial economies usually considered, such economies differ in several respects, including the structure of tax revenues, commodity pricing and...

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