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trade with foreigners is detrimental for growth. We find that Taxes on international trade seems to drive this result …
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Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS), it derives insights from a large number of Regional Trade Agreements (RTAs) that embody … substantive provisions on both government procurement and services trade. An important finding is that, from an economic … perspective, general market access commitments with respect to services trade and commitments regarding government procurement of …
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general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine crosscountry … of trade. Regression results suggest that import protection makes income distribution worse for countries in labor …
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Multinational enterprises (MNEs) are increasingly dealing with challenges shaped by the new geopolitical and trade … environments. Besides traditional tariffs, exporting firms need to comply with regulatory non-tariff measures (NTMs) in the form of … technical barriers to trade (TBTs) and sanitary and phytosanitary (SPS) measures. Although trade costs associated with these …
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To identify transactions at risk of tariff evasion, this paper matches export transaction data from France with import transaction data from Madagascar using container identifiers. Reporting discrepancies between exporters and importers are prevalent but small, with over two-fifths of importers...
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The study reveals that there is a relationship between foreign direct investments, trade, and growth rate of per capita … do not show any auto-correlation. The trade and foreign investment variables have a significant impact on the growth rate … of GDP per capita. Because FDI and trade are two important components of economic growth in Bangladesh, it is important …
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We build and estimate a structural dynamic general equilibrium model of growth and trade. Trade affects growth through …, growth affects trade, directly through changes in country size and indirectly through altering the incidence of trade costs …. Theory translates into an intuitive econometric system that identifies the causal impact of trade on income and growth, and …
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This paper examines the relationship between trade (exports), growth, and inequality, using a panel of 100 countries … over 30 years (1980 to 2010). As there is no clear theoretical relationship between trade (exports) and inequality, and as … of trade (exports) on growth. The findings are that in general trade openness advances growth while inequality reduces …
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critical contemporary issues without the ammunitions of a more complex neo-classical system. Trade pampers inequality all … across the globe independent of trade patterns. It is likely to increase growth rate but that rate declines over time …
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structural change impacts on inequality for a sample of advanced, emerging, and transition economies. Trade liberalization … found that the process of structural change increases income inequality, while trade liberalization and FDI inflows help to …
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