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Free Trade Among South, East and South-East Asian Countries a Step towards Asian Integration
Ahmed, Shahid - 2015
This study investigates the potential trade flows between countries of South, East and South East Asian region as a result of tariff liberalization using the GTAP-model. The study reveals that tariff liberalization has positive effects on all country groupings of South, East and South East Asian...
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On the heterogeneous trade and welfare effects of GATT/WTO membership
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Yalçin, Erdal; … - 2022
We quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the average impact of GATT/WTO membership on trade among member countries is...
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On the Link between Trade Liberalization and Firm Productivity : Panel Data Evidence from Private Firms in Ghana
Hoedoafia, Mabel - 2020
The private sector is deemed as an engine of growth. As such, many developing countries including Ghana have sought to develop the private sector to propel the growth of their economies. This notwithstanding, much has not been done to examine the effects of such efforts on the productivity of...
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The Relationship between Trade Openness and Economic Growth in Bangladesh : An Empirical Analysis
Hasan, Md - 2021
This paper examines the relationship between trade openness and economic growth in Bangladesh. Contrary to the previous studies we use the data only for the period after the trade liberalization in the early 1990s. Both cointegration and Granger causality analysis are used to find the short-run...
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on Firm Profitability in Ghana : Panel Evidence from Private Firms in the Manufacturing Sector
Hoedoafia, Mabel - 2021
Since 1983, Ghana has witnessed trade liberalization policies that were introduced as part of structural adjustment and economic recovery programmes and meant to open up the once closed economy. As part of such reforms, tariffs were reduced, and non-tariff trade barriers lessened. The adjustment...
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On the heterogeneous trade and welfare effects of GATT/WTO membership
Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario; Yalçin, Erdal; … - 2020
We build on the latest developments in the structural gravity literature to quantify the partial and general equilibrium effects of GATT/WTO membership on trade and welfare. Using an extensive database covering manufacturing trade for 186 countries over the period 1980-2016, we find that the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012269824
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Trade reform, managers, and skill intensity : evidence from India
Chakraborty, Pavel - 2019
India underwent a significant structural transformation through trade liberalization and other reforms (domestic) in the 1990s because of a balance-of-payments crisis. I use this episode to identify the causal effect of a drop in tariffs on wage inequality, measured through managerial and...
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Impact of trade openness on economic growth among ECOWAS Countries : 1975-2017
Ijirshar, Victor U. - In: CBN journal of applied statistics 10 (2019) 1, pp. 75-96
This study assesses the impact of trade openness on economic growth among ECOWAS countries using secondary data from … estimator was preferred. Results show that trade openness has positive effects on growth in ECOWAS countries in the long-run but … mixed effects in the short-run. The study therefore recommends that ECOWAS member countries improve cooperation among …
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Debunking Protectionist Myths : Free Trade, the Developing World, and Prosperity
Panagariya, Arvind - 2020
More than 170 years ago, Frédéric Bastiat noted in his masterly work Economic Sophisms that the “opposition to free trade rests upon errors, or, if you prefer, upon half-truths.”1 Ever since Adam Smith successfully replaced mercantilist orthodoxy with free trade doctrine in his celebrated...
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Trade Liberalization in Egypt
Maskus, Keith E.; Konan, Denise Eby - 2001
We develop a computable general equilibrium model of Egypt to analyze proposed reforms in its trade policies, including a partnership agreement (PA) with the European Union (EU). The model has multiple trading regions and allows for administrative trade barriers and tariffs. We compute the...
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