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This paper and appendices report an ongoing study of the interrelationships between technology, income distribution and other socio-economic issues in a long term global context. The present paper therefore describes the work in progress on a project to be completed by July 1980. The aim here is...
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countries that did not alter tariffs. This allows us to analyse the effects of trade liberalisation on the change in imports … using Difference-in-Differences techniques that allow us to evaluate the impact on imports of trade liberalisation at the …In the 1980's and 1990's many African countries liberalised their trade policy, although since the mid 1990s there are …
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countries that did not alter tariffs. This allows us to analyse the effects of trade liberalisation on the change in imports … using Difference-in-Differences techniques that allow us to evaluate the impact on imports of trade liberalisation at the …In the 1980’s and 1990’s many African countries liberalised their trade policy, although since the mid 1990s there are …
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the estimation technique to the economy of Thailand. Topalova (2010) found that trade liberalization in India has … exposed to trade openness, experienced less poverty reduction and slower consumption growth. The effects of trade reform on … methods to Thailand by examining the relative effects of accession to the WTO in 1995, and find that poverty reduced more in …
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In this volume, world-renowned contributors, including Martin Ravallion, Michael Kremer and Robert Townsend, deal with the institutional characteristics of poverty resulting from the time pattern of aid, the nature of financial systems and the political economy of budgetary decisions. Going...
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This report examines the different channels through which trade openness (and reforms to achieve it) can affect a … country’s food security. The overall conclusion is that trade openness has a positive net impact on food security, although … of trade protection. The challenge for policymakers is to design flanking policies which enable countries to reap …
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The quarantine policy decision-making process in Australia is subject to the principles of the World Trade Organisation … disease entry. The costs of a quarantine measure in terms of forgone trade benefits are not considered. The impact associated … apple market liberalisation, which can be expected to yield gains to consumers which are greater than the economic costs to …
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The impact of liberalisation on labour markets is examined by the impact of foreign direct investment (FDI), trade and …
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