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Better information on how services policies vary across economies and sectors over time would improve the empirical analysis of their impact. This paper describes the Services Trade Policy Database (STPD), a joint initiative by the World Bank and the WTO Secretariat, which builds on a database...
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This study quantifies the significant economic gains that are expected to be revealed through the abolition or relaxation of local content based policies. The work analyses two specific local content policies affecting directly or indirectly the shipbuilding industry in two countries: Brazil’s...
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essential to facilitate the development of that strong manufacturing base and thus spur economic growth. We ask: • Does a strong … manufacturing share of GDP facilitate economic growth? • Do trade restrictions ensure the development of a strong manufacturing base … consistently to economic growth. We also find that trade restrictions both at home and abroad shrink the manufacturing base and …
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A little over a decade has passed since the onset of the global financial crisis in 2008. Shortly after the collapse of the Lehman Brothers investment bank, an internal Secretariat Task Force was established by the WTO Director-General to monitor the trade-related developments associated with...
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This paper reviews the main developments of trade and related policies and measures in the Asia and Pacific region during the 30 years since establishment, in 1989, of the Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM). The objectives of the TPRM include facilitating the smooth functioning of the...
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Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development database. The Services Trade Policy Database offers comparable information … the current Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development database, enabling a comparison of services policies …
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Are changes in services markets provoking reform, restrictions, or inertia? To address this question, this paper draws on a new World Bank-World Trade Organization Services Trade Policy Database. The paper analyzes the services trade policies of 68 economies in 23 subsectors across five broad...
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