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The authors use newly collected data on trade and production in 178 countries to infer estimates of trade costs in agriculture and manufactured goods for the 1995-2010 period
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Trade facilitation (the simplification and harmonization of import, export, and transit procedures) including paperless trade (the use and exchange of electronic data and documents to support the trade transaction process), has taken increasing importance as evidenced by the WTO Trade...
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International trade has been a major engine for economic growth and development in Asia and the Pacific. However, overall trade costs remain excessively high in many developing countries of the region. Part I of this publication provides an overview of trade costs in Asia and the Pacific, based...
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Trade can be a powerful engine for economic growth, poverty reduction, and development. However, harnessing the power of trade is often difficult for developing countries, particularly the least developed countries, because of supply-side domestic constraints (lack of trade-related...
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Facilitating trade is essential for Africa's economic development and further integration into the world economy, as business in Africa still suffers from behind-the-border barriers to trade. Using firm level data from the World Bank's Enterprise surveys covering more than 6,500 manufacturing...
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both tariff and non-tariff barriers like trade procedures. We argue that since trade procedures vary markedly across EU … countries, the EU is not, strictly speaking, a customs union. To illustrate this, we estimate the impact of trade procedures on … exports from non-EU countries and find a highly statistically significant and negative effect. Simulating what the effects …
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both tariff and non-tariff barriers like trade procedures. We argue that since trade procedures vary markedly across EU … countries, the EU is not, strictly speaking, a customs union. To illustrate this, we estimate the impact of trade procedures on … exports from non-EU countries and find a highly statistically significant and negative effect. Simulating what the effects …
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The sharp decline in trade volume and value during the current economic crisis has contributed to lower transportation costs and reduced waiting times at border crossings, reducing the urgency of progress on trade facilitation. Meanwhile, greater trade is expected to play a key role in recovery,...
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Facilitating trade is essential for Africa's economic development and further integration into the world economy, as business in Africa still suffers from behind-the-border barriers to trade. Using firm level data from the World Bank's Enterprise surveys covering more than 6,500 manufacturing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010662630
can be improved in order to promote inclusive growth in the non-EU Mediterranean countries. In this paper, we explore … important part of a reform agenda. Adopting a Southern perspective by focusing on exports from non-EU Mediterranean countries to … the EU, we use data from the World Bank’s Doing Business Database on the efficiency of trade procedures to formally test …
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