Showing 1 - 10 of 286,721
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003383332
welfare and its distributional effects, particularly for the poor in developing countries"--World Bank web site …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010522919
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10002399148
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003072167
This is one of 10 studies for the Copenhagen Consensus Project that sought to evaluate the most feasible opportunities to improve welfare globally and alleviate poverty in developing countries. Anderson argues that phasing out distortionary government subsidies and barriers to international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012749058
This is one of 10 studies for the Copenhagen Consensus Project that sought to evaluate the most feasible opportunities to improve welfare globally and alleviate poverty in developing countries. The author argues that phasing out distortionary government subsidies and barriers to international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559844
throughout the world. At the same time, trade in health products is hampered by substantive trade barriers. In this paper, we … present evidence that countries around the world still apply tariffs and nontariff measures that increase prices and limit the … World Trade Organization's Trade Facilitation Agreement as a starting point, can be linked to improved handling of health …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591118
The role of international trade was irreplaceable at the start of the COVID-19 pandemic crisis, especially the trade in medical supplies and food for all affected countries. Trade as a part of this crisis, certainly should not be an element of further countries' closing and new trade barriers...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014281859
This paper analyzes a prominent dimension of the initial policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic observed in many countries: the imposition of export restrictions and actions to facilitate imports. Weekly data on the use of trade policy instruments during the first seven months of the COVID-19...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012434709
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012175231