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World Trade Organization Agreement on Trade Facilitation : assessing the level of ambition and likely impacts

Yamanaka, Shintarō - 2014

At the Ninth Ministerial Conference of the World Trade Organization (WTO) held in Bali on 3–6 December 2013, the ministers agreed upon the WTO Agreement on Trade Facilitation (ATF). This paper assesses the level of ambition of the ATF from two angles. First, the use of softening language in...

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TBT and Trade Facilitation Agreements : leveraging linkages to reduce trade costs

Ayral, Serra - 2016 - Manuscript date: 01 June 2016

provisions on transparency and conformity assessment procedures, some of which are applied at the border, are of particular … well as raising awareness amongst trade/customs officials of existing rules and evolving practices in the TBT area. The … facilitation projects. The procedures and practices of the WTO TBT Committee, especially with regards to transparency and specific …

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Posts as trade facilitators

Carballo, Jerónimo; Schaur, Georg; Volpe Martincus, … - 2016 - This version: March 2016

In this paper, we examine an innovative postal export regime that involves both a streamlining of export procedures and provision of intermediation services to investigate how firms' react to changing trade costs and whether and how these firms learn. In so doing, we use a unique dataset that...

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Revamping Aid for Trade for the Post-Bali WTO Agenda

Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2013

Developing countries' requests for financial and technical assistance acquired a high profile during the Doha Round negotiations prompting the launch of the Aid for Trade Initiative. The Initiative succeeded in mobilising a large amount of financial resources. However, because the Doha Round...

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Ease of Doing Business Through Implementation of WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement

Abdin, MD. Joynal - 2019

Bangladesh ranked 168th in the Doing Business Report 2020 of the World Bank from its previous position of 176th last year. Bangladesh's progress in Doing Business ranking is the direct outcome of government's doing business reforms initiatives coordinated by the Private Sector Development Policy...

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Financial Liberalization and Export Promotion : Evidence From Nigeria (1987–2018)

Adekunle, Oludayo - 2019

Financial liberalization policy is expected to enhance credit allocation to important sector in the economy. With previous studies mainly focusing on the effect of financial liberalization on economic growth in Nigeria, this study explored the effect of financial liberalization on export...

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Implications of the World Trade Organization's Agreement on Trade Facilitation for Emerging Economies

Khanderia-Yadav, Saloni - 2015

commitments by countries eager to implement these measures, beyond merely reforms in customs evaluation. This hence necessitates … widespread number of measures to complement and supplement customs related reforms, by means of infrastructural and other … growth by curbing red tape and corruption; it only implies that these measures are of utmost significance to emerging …

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Political-Economic Problems in Trade Capacity Building

Urpelainen, Johannes - 2010

Theoretically, trade capacity building should contribute to export-led growth and support liberal economic policies. Unfortunately, it often fails to meet this ideal due to resource misallocation, misplaced focus on existing obligations, and donor-driven implementation. This article presents a...

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The Challenge of Reducing Subsidies and Trade Barriers

Anderson, Kym - 2016

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...

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Who profits from trade facilitation initiatives?

Hoekman, Bernard M.; Shepherd, Ben - 2013

Extensive research has demonstrated the existence of large potential welfare gains from trade facilitation - measures to reduce the overall costs of the international movement of goods. From an equity perspective an important question is how those benefits are distributed across and within...

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