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Duval, Yann; Utoktham, Chorthip; Kravchenko, Alexey - 2018

This study estimates the effect of trade facilitation measures implementation on trade costs in Asia and the Pacific using data from the United Nations Global Survey on Trade Facilitation and Paperless Trade Implementation. Impact of different sets of measures are considered, from a basic set of...

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Sustainable development impact of trade and investment liberalization in Asia and the Pacific

Narayanan, Badri; Duval, Yann; Kravchenko, Alexey; … - 2017

, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side … confirms that trade and investment liberalization are essential drivers of economic development. The economic growth and trade … benefits from trade facilitation generally dwarf those from tariff liberalization and, to a lesser extent, those achieved …

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The relationship between services trade and government procurement commitments : insights from relevant WTO agreements and recent RTAs

Anderson, Robert D.; Locatelli, Claudia; Müller, Anna … - 2014 - Manuscript date: 24 October, 2014

To date, government procurement has been effectively carved out of the main multilateral rules of the WTO system. This paper examines the systemic and other ramifications of this exclusion, from both an economic and a legal point of view. In addition to relevant elements of the WTO Agreements,...

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Developing countries in the WTO services negotiations

Marchetti, Juan A. - 2004 - Manuscript date: September 2004

essential role of services for economic development; the high costs imposed by trade protection; the benefits of liberalization …

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French Oil Protectionism and the International Political Economy of Rent Seeking

Brault, Julien - 2015

Quantitative protectionism, more precisely import substituting industrialization through quantitative trade restrictions, has been one of the most popular development policies of the 20th century. The researches led around Anne Krueger, based on scarce data from Third World countries, concluded...

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Reassessing Effective Protection Rates in a Trade in Tasks Perspective : Evolution of Trade Policy in 'Factory Asia'

Escaith, Hubert; Diakantoni, Antonia - 2012

With international trade moving from "trade in (final) goods" to "trade in tasks", effective protection rates (EPRs) are back to the stage. Input-output matrices are used in this paper to monitor the production structure of 10 Asian-Pacific countries between 1995 and 2005, and to calculate...

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In Search of Coherence : Kazakhstan's Trade and Industrial Policy

Chäkímžanov, Säbit; Seitenova, Ai-Gul - 2021

This paper aims to explain the evolution of Kazakhstan’s trade and industrial policy through an examination of official documents and declarations, policymaking processes and general government practices in the context of economic and geopolitical environment. The history of trade policy is...

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