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What we do and don’t know about trade liberalization and poverty reduction

Vos, Rob - Department of Economic and Social Affairs, United Nations - 2007

Strong opinions about the impact of globalization on poverty are not always backed by robust factual evidence. As argued in this paper, however, it is not all that easy to lay our hands on ‘robust’ facts. Quantitative analyses of trade liberalization appear highly sensitive to basic...

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International organizations in development and global inequality: The example of the World Bank's pension policy

Koch, Martin - 2012

Initial models of development debates on how to achieve economic growth have been added to by a focus on social issues … such as education and political participation. These debates and discourses about development are shaped by international … organizations (IGOs) as they produce reference/action frameworks for actors in development policy. The paper suggests …

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Issue linkage and trade policy uncertainty : evidence from trade preferences for developing countries

Suttner, Stefan - 2023

This paper quantifies potential costs of issue linkage examining trade preferences granted under the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). Preferential market access via US GSP is conditional on political practices by beneficiaries. Using monthly import data, I study trade policy...

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The U.S. generalized system of preferences in principle and practice

Blanchard, Emily; Hakobyan, Shushanik - 2013

In principle, the U.S. Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) offers uniform market access to exports from eligible developing countries for a broad set of GSP-eligible products. In practice, realized GSP tariff-exemptions demonstrate marked variation across countries, industries, and years. In...

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Aid-for-Trade and the 'Missing Middle' of the WTO

Evenett, Simon - 2013

As part of the Doha Development Agenda many members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) and in particular its …

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Implementing the African Continental Free Trade Area : A Simple, Scalable, and Fast Computational Approach for Algorithmic Governance

Atkinson, Craig - 2022

This chapter suggests a rationale for a simple, scalable, and fast computational approach through the ‘Data With Direction Specification’ (DWDS) to supplement the implementation of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA). The specification provides a way for digitally executable...

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Politicized trade : What drives withdrawal of trade preferences?

Gassebner, Martin; Gnutzmann-Mkrtchyan, Arevik - In: BEROC working paper series 46 (2017), pp. 1-10

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Impact of Selectivity and Neutrality of trade Policy Incentives on Industrialization of Developing Countries; Implications for NAMA Negotiations

Shafaeddin, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009

Abstract This author sheds some light on the theoretical arguments on the use of selectivity and uniformity of trade policy in trade and industrialization for targeting industries and firms and provides a brief historical review of practices of developed countries and East Asian countries with...

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Canary in a coal mine : how trade concerns at the Goods Council reflect the changing landscape of trade frictions at the WTO

Santana, Roy; Dobhal, Adeet - 2024 - Manuscript date: 08 May 2024

This paper studies the under-explored yet critical role of WTO's regular bodies, particularly focusing on the discussions of "trade concerns" within the Goods Council, its subsidiary bodies, as well as the General Council. These discussions are pivotal for the governance of international trade...

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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects : potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)

Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014 - Manuscript date: 30 October, 2014

-Saharan Africa. To address this, the region itself has initiated a major, long-term, continent-wide infrastructure development … programme which is intended to fix this problem sustainably - namely, the Programme for Infrastructure Development in Africa … Government Procurement (GPA) is emerging as a multi-dimensional tool of trade, governance and development. The thesis of this …

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