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Quantifying barriers to movement of service suppliers and examining their effects: Implications for COVID-19
Shingal, Anirudh - 2020
The importance of services trade and "servicification" of economic activity has grown in countries overtime. However, regulatory and administrative barriers to the movement of service suppliers have meant that "Mode 4" accounted for only 2.1% of total services trade in 2005 and 2.9% in 2017....
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A Comparison Between Shale Gas in China and Unconventional Fuel Development in the United States: Health, Water and Environmental Risks
Farah, Paolo D.; Tremolada, Riccardo - 2013
China is appraised to have the world's largest exploitable reserves of shale gas, although several legal, regulatory, environmental and investment-related issues will likely restrain its scope. China's capacity to successfully face these hurdles and produce commercial shale gas will have a...
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Demystifying impact of food losses in international trade of food products: Building narrative for developing countries from Indian perspective
Singh, Surendar - 2022
Food loss remains one of the central points of collective action around the world, as reflected in the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda, but this issue is far more concerning for the developing countries. Several studies highlight the level and stages of food losses. However, there is limited...
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An assessment of the effects of COVID-19 pandemic on Kenya's trade
Were, Maureen; Ngoka, Kethi - 2022
We examine the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on Kenya's foreign trade using quarterly trade data for the period 2019 to the second quarter of 2021. The exploratory analysis shows that growth of Kenya's merchandise exports remained resilient, largely supported by traditional exports of tea and...
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Regional integration in Bay of Bengal region in post-COVID-19 period
De, Prabir - 2021
Bay of Bengal countries have been affected heavily by the ongoing Coronavirus pandemic. This article argues that the …, particularly when all members have been facing a common challenge to beat the Coronavirus pandemic. This paper briefly discusses … likely economic loss due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The article discusses the magnitude of the Coronavirus pandemic in the Bay …
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Services liberalization in the new generation of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs): How much further than the GATS?
Roy, Martin; Marchetti, Juan; Lim, Hoe - 2006
This paper attempts to fill a gap in the trade literature by providing a comprehensive overview of services liberalization commitments in the new generation of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) as compared to prevailing GATS commitments and Doha Round offers. By developing a new database, the...
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Turning hills into mountains? Current commitments under the GATS and prospects for change
Adlung, Rudolf; Roy, Martin - 2005
Over the past months, it has become increasingly clear that the services negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda will not produce significant improvements on current commitments unless major new impetus is provided. In an introductory section, this paper discusses various impediments,...
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Developing countries in the WTO services negotiations
Marchetti, Juan A. - 2004
The aim of this paper is to analyse developing countries' participation so far in the current round of services negotiations under the Doha Development Agenda. The paper analyses developing countries' negotiating positions, as evidenced by their multilateral negotiating proposals; their initial...
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Strengthening India-Nepal economic relations
Taneja, Nisha; Prakash, Shravani; Bimal, Samridhi; … - 2019
India and Nepal have traditionally shared a unique relationship of friendship and economic cooperation. The relationship is characterized by an open and people-friendly border and is built on shared historical, cultural, linguistic, ethnic links between people residing in India and Nepal. With...
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The interconnections between services and goods trade at the firm-level
Ariu, Andrea; Breinlich, Holger; Corcos, Gregory; Mion, … - 2017
In this paper we study how international trade in goods and services interact at the firm level. Using a rich dataset on Belgian firms during the period 1995-2005, we show that: i) firms are much more likely to source services and goods inputs from the same origin country rather than from...
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