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, and identifies the main features of world trade and GVC participation that influence exposures to risks in supply chains … equilibrium (CGE) trade model METRO to shed light on the consequences of a stylised re-localisation policy scenario. In this … through trade. Quantitatively, the latter effect tends to dominate: re-localising GVCs would make the economy in most …
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trade liberalisation. This paper uses the South African Revenue Service (SARS) and National Treasury (NT) firm-level panel … to assess the response of South African firms to trade policy changes and demand shocks in destination markets between … firm level. Also, trade liberalisation policies in the destination country positively affect the number of exported goods …
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, modernising product market regulations, developing skills, and reconsidering barriers to trade and investment. OECD simulations … suggest that India would be a major beneficiary were barriers to trade and investment be reduced multilaterally. In the … absence of a multilateral agreement, the economy would also gain from a unilateral liberalisation of trade and investment …
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This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalisation and migration in the case of Mexico. The increasing … bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States after signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was supposed …: are trade and migration substitutes like the policy-makers had assumed or are they complements? Using monthly data from …
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Global trade growth over the past few years has appeared extraordinarily weak, even in relation to weak global GDP … growth. This paper shows that the apparent breakdown in the relationship between global trade and global GDP growth is … particularly trade intensive region – has had a substantial negative effect on intra-euro area trade flows, which are commonly …
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As its workforce ages and major economies shift towards producing higher value-added goods and services, New Zealand will face increasing challenges to remain globally competitive and maintain high living standards. Future growth will need to come increasingly from productivity gains, and...
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Policy efforts to revitalise entrepreneurship and investment in Spain are key to generating growth and new jobs. The government has a substantial reform program to make it easier to do business in Spain, which should in some cases be deepened. Boosting economic growth requires a new generation...
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Portugal has notably increased its international openness over recent decades, with exports’ share of GDP rising by 20 percentage points since 1993. This analysis couples microdata with panel regression techniques to investigate the drivers of Portuguese export growth over the 1995-2016...
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contracts in the oil and gas sector, and the long-standing US Jones Act obliging intra-US seaborne trade to be conducted on US … built and US flagged vessels. The paper’s static simulation exploits OECD’s latest Trade-in-Value-Added (TiVA) data – a rich … industry, enabling an assessment of the effect of the two selected policies on inter-industry trade. The simulation results …
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This report, part of the “Cities” collection, highlights the contribution of border towns to the process of regional integration in West Africa. For 18 countries, six indicators are used to identify the specificities of border towns at the local, national and international levels:...
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