Increased intra-regional trade in southern Africa will have a positive impact on economic growth. However, this … across the region, and thus drive higher levels of trade. …

private sector investment. However, the region faces important leakages in imports of machinery. This paper investigates …

national saving and investment, which are in turn affected by policy distortions, including in trade policy. Simulations of the … OECD’s METRO model show liberalisation of existing trade distortions would modestly narrow aggregate trade imbalances in …Global trade imbalances narrowed in the aftermath of the global financial crisis. They have remained at a lower level …

South Africa's trade barriers are still relatively high compared to other emerging market economies, and its industrial … further trade liberalization on the South African economy. We particularly take into account core NTB's on tradable … commodities and the costs imposed by cross-border trade facilitation, which is particularly inefficient in South Africa. Our …

consistent with a neo-Schumpeterian view of trade and regulation. Close to the technology frontier, import competition has a … heterogeneous effects of international competition and domestic product market regulation on firm-level productivity growth are … substantially. However, far from the frontier, neither import competition nor its interaction with domestic regulation has a …

Numerous studies have found that trade sanctions are ineffective, and even at times counterproductive. President Jimmy … investors, who are "gobbling up" Cuban market share in the absence of American competition. The sanctions against Iraq have …

reduce or eliminate foreign competition, using the antidumping laws as a case study. Antidumping laws are ostensibly aimed at … a price that is lower than that charged in the home market. Since the creation of the World Trade Organization, more … than 130 countries will likely adopt antidumping laws as part of their trade policy. At the recently failed trade talks in …