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Tervala, Juha; Ganelli, Giovanni - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2012

This paper studies tariff-tax reforms in a calibrated two-region global New Keynesian model composed of a developing and an advanced region. In our baseline calibration, a revenue-neutral reform that lowers tariffs in developing countries can reduce domestic welfare. The reason is that the...

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Regional Trade Arrangements in Africa; Past Performance and the Way Forward

Yang, Yongzheng; Gupta, Sanjeev - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005

Regional trade arrangements (RTAs) in Africa have been ineffective in promoting trade and foreign direct investment. Relatively high external trade barriers and low resource complementarity between member countries limit both intra- and extraregional trade. Small market size, poor transport...

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Measuring the Impact of Distortions in Agricultural Trade in Partial and General Equilibrium

Tokarick, Stephen - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper provides quantitative estimates of the impact of removing agricultural support (both tariffs and subsidies) in partial- and general-equilibrium frameworks. The results show that agricultural support in industrial countries is highly distortionary and tariffs have a larger...

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Do South-South Trade Agreements Increase Trade? Commodity-Level Evidence from COMESA

Mayda, Anna Maria; Steinberg, Chad - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

South-South trade agreements are proliferating: Developing countries signed 70 new agreements between 1990 and 2003. Yet the impact of these agreements is largely unknown. This paper focuses on the static effects of South-South preferential trade agreements stemming from changes in trade...

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Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon; What Are the Consequences of China's WTO Entry for India'S Trade

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 2005

One of the most significant recent developments in world trade has been the entry of China into the World Trade … Organization (WTO). This paper examines the implications of China's WTO accession for India's trade, using both econometrics and … computable general equilibrium (CGE) models. The paper analyzes how India stands to lose or gain from China's WTO entry in terms …

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Russia and the WTO; The "Gravity" of Outsider Status

Lissovolik, Yaroslav; Lissovolik, Bogdan - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

With China's accession to the WTO in 2001, Russia is by far that organization's most prominent nonmember. This paper …

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The WTO Promotes Trade, Strongly But Unevenly

Wei, Shang-Jin; Subramanian, Arvind - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper furnishes robust evidence that the GATT/WTO has had a powerful and positive impact on trade. The impact has, however, been uneven. GATT/WTO membership for industrial countries has been associated with a large increase in imports estimated at about 40 percent of world trade. The same...

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Stabilization and Reform in Eastern Europe; A Preliminary Evaluation

Bruno, Michael - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 1992

The paper analyzes common issues emerging from the recent experience with Fund-supported programs in Hungary, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Bulgaria and Romania. These comprise the initial price-overshooting and the output collapse, fiscal sustainability as well as the financial and structural...

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International Trade and Productivity Growth; Exploring the Sectoral Effects for Developing Countries

Choudhri, Ehsan U.; Hakura, Dalia - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2000

The paper estimates an empirical relation based on Krugman’s ‘technological gap’ model to explore the influence of the pattern of international trade and production on the overall productivity growth of a developing country. A key result is that increased import competition in...

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Border and Behind-The-Border Trade Barriers and Country Exports

Sadikov, Azim M. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007

How do signatures required for exporting and business registration procedures affect the volume and composition of country's exports? To answer this question, I develop a model where a country can export two types of products: differentiated and homogeneous. I show that export signatures and...

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