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might evolve and how the WTO could respond. …
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The Marrakesh Agreement establishing the WTO recognizes the need for positive efforts designed to ensure that … commensurate with the needs of their economic development.This article discusses how the WTO contributes to facilitating Africa …'s integration into the WTO multilateral trading system. It is argued that, while African countries are actively engaged in the work …
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nations, including least developed countries (LDCs), in global value chains (GVCs). The G20's intermediate trade, especially …-south cooperation, i.e., the limited intermediate trade among G20 developing nations and of this subgroup with LDCs. The share of non … involvement of LDCs in intermediate trade, reaching just around 1% in GVCs. G20-developing nations' imports from LDCs are …
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Global trade growth has slowed since 2012 relative both to its strong historical performance and to overall economic growth. This paper aims to quantify the role of weak economic growth and changes in its decomposition in accounting for the slowdown in trade using a reduced form and a structural...
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This paper discusses the measurement of production and employment effects of trade policy, and more broadly the effects of economic integration and globalization. First, it provides a broad-brush overview of the ex-post literature linking trade to performance, such as measures of worker...
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international trade and investment law. It involves analysis in this context of WTO multilaterals and U.S. bilaterals in relation to …
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This working paper draws on historical and contemporary data on tariffs, non tariff barriers, and transportation costs (for the United States and its major trading partners) to estimate the role of policy liberalization in US merchandise trade growth over the period 1980 to 2006. Both partial...
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The rise of global supply chains has had profound effects on individual economies and the global trading system, thereby complicating standard macroeconomic analyses. For many of the new and challenging questions brought about by this phenomenon, such as its impact on the global business cycle...
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