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Trade Reform in the CEMAC; Developments and Opportunities
Tsangarides, Charalambos G.; Martijn, Jan Kees - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2007
This paper provides an update on the main elements of the reform agenda concerning the CEMAC trade regime as well as a tentative quantitative assessment of selected effects on tariff revenues and trade patterns. Notwithstanding data limitations, the key messages from the analysis are as follows....
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“FREE TRADE SEMANTIC DISAGREEMENTS”: WHY WTO-STYLE MULTILATERAL LIBERALIZATION AND FTAS STAND MUCH CLOSER TO PROTECTIONISM
JORA, Octavian-Dragomir; BUTISEACA, Alexandru - In: Romanian Economic Business Review 9 (2014) 2, pp. 7-28
It is “mainstream” to say that the World Trade Organization (WTO) and Free Trade Agreements (FTAs) lead to the liberalization of the member states’ economies. Even “old school” pro free trade authors, known nowadays rather as being “against the tide” for promoting unilateral...
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Trade and the Crisis; Protect or Recover
Saito, Mika; Henn, Christian; Gregory, Rob; McDonald, … - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2010
restrictions is modest, at about 0.25 percent of global trade, as most countries have resisted a widespread resort to protectionism … restrict trade, so unless all countries vigorously resist protectionism this could threaten the economic recovery and drag down …
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Trade, Growth, and Poverty; A Selective Survey
Berg, Andrew; Krueger, Anne O. - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003
This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects of openness on poverty in two components: the effect of openness on average income growth, and the effect on distribution for a given growth rate. Evidence from a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005263804
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High-Tech Protectionism
Barfield, Claude - American Enterprise Institute
This book exploresthe negative consequences of attempts to protect key U.S. manufacturing industries through the use of antidumping laws.
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Protection and Trade in Services: A Survey
Hoekman, Bernard; Braga, Carlos - In: Open Economies Review 8 (1997) 3, pp. 285-308
estimates of the welfare costs of protectionism in the service sector. Copyright Kluwer Academic Publishers 1997 …
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International institutions and market expectations: Stock price responses to the WTO ruling on the 2002 U.S. steel tariffs
Jensen, Nathan - In: The Review of International Organizations 2 (2007) 3, pp. 261-280
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Does Import Protection Discourage Exports?
Tokarick, Stephen - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2006
This paper points out that while many developing countries seek to increase their export earnings, they have not embraced fully the notion that their own pattern of import protection hurts their export performance. The paper quantifies the extent to which import protection acts as a tax on a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005599612
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Assessing Protectionism and Subsidies in Agriculture; A Gravity Approach
Paiva, Claudio - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2005
support claims that protectionism and distortive subsidies to agriculture remain widespread in more developed nations, which …-country protectionism are also found to be relatively closed to agricultural trade. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005605018
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Protectionist responses to the crisis – global trends and implications
Bussière, Matthieu; Pérez-Barreiro, Emilia; Straub, Roland - European Central Bank - 2010
In this paper we take a systematic look at recent trends in global protectionism and at the potential implications of a … Organization (WTO) member has retreated into widespread trade restrictions or protectionism to date. Our model-based simulations …-term growth potential of the global economy. At the same time, it is unlikely that protectionism would help to correct existing …
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