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Market access liberalization has influenced product-specific growth of world exports and contributed to the shift in the structure of world exports of manufactures towards electrical and electronic goods (including parts and components), goods that require high R&D expenditures, and...
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India has a large positive trade balance in the apparel sector and is ranked among the top 10 apparel exporting … manufacturers and exporters face two major challenges. First, India's export promotion schemes have been challenged under the World … Trade Organization's Agreement on Subsidies and Countervailing Measures and second, India is negotiating mega-regional trade …
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We estimate the effect of RTAs on bilateral exports by means of a gravity model analyzing its sensitivity to different specifications and methods. RTAs generate a sizable positive effect. However, shifting to country-pair and time-varying fixed effects systematically reduces coefficients....
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In international trade literature, there is a common feature that the abolishment of barriers to trade leads to the expansion of trade flows. Most of the empirical studies aiming at simulation of welfare effects of trade liberalization explicitly make use of this direct tariff reduction - trade...
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China's importance for India as a trading partner has increased tremendously over the recent years. At the same time … India. The use of monthly data is relatively new to the literature and allows a detailed examination of the trade impact of … to India immediately and to a significant extent. The impact is quite stable over time. …
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I evaluate India's transition from an inward-oriented development strategy to greater participation in the world … economy. While tariff rates have decreased significantly over the past decade, India is still one of the more autarkic … countries. Despite improvement over the past in export performance, India continues to lag behind its South- and East Asian …
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The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals … of public ownership and important regulatory barriers continue to dominate the services sectors. India has gone a long … still persists which likely adds to the hurdles faced by the Indian manufacturing sector. India has revealed a comparative …
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trade between India and Pakistan. We explain the comparative advantages of both countries at a disaggregated level, followed … to trade with India. We find that a gradual opening up of pharmaceutical trade with India may allow Pakistan to enhance … India. Pakistan, in the medium to long run, may also be able to diversify its pharmaceutical export base, reduce cost of …
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cheaper auto sector inputs and raw material are allowed and imports are facilitated from China and India, new entrants (both …/classifications. However, these do not find their way, for example, to India due to what the industry describes as non-tariff barriers, state … the commerce ministries of India and Pakistan can address the concerns of Pakistan's auto sector and create a win …
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Gravity equations have been used for more than 50 years to estimate ex post the partial effects of trade costs on international trade flows, and the well-known - and traditionally presumed exogenous – “trade-cost elasticity” plays a central role in computing general equilibrium trade-flow...
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