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Protectionism, free trade and preferential trade: the Mexican experience 1970-2005

Napoles, Pablo Ruiz - In: BNL Quarterly Review 60 (2007) 240, pp. 49-81

This paper is an analysis of trade policies in Mexico. A structural analysis of theMexican economy's performance in three successive but different periods, regardingtrade policies for the last thirty-five years is presented. Results are confronted with expectations from various trade policies....

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Trade liberalisation in Mexico: rhetoric and reality

Pacheco-Lopez, Pennelope; Thirlwall, Anthony P. - In: BNL Quarterly Review 57 (2004) 229, pp. 141-167

Trade liberalisation in Mexico started in a significant way in 1985/86, and was consolidated by the NAFTA agreement 1994. Mexico was expected to benefit in terms of increased export growth, employment, real wages, and above all, a faster rate of economic growth. In practice, there has been a...

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Price, Quality, and Variety: Measuring the Gains from Trade in Differentiated Products

Sheu, Gloria - In: American Economic Journal: Applied Economics 6 (2014) 4, pp. 66-89

This paper explores the gains from trade in differentiated products from three channels: decreases in price, improvements in quality, and increases in variety. Using data on Indian imports of computer printers from 1996 to 2005, a period of trade liberalization, I find that quality was the...

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Trade Liberalization and Poverty: What Have We Learned in a Decade?

Winters, L. Alan; Martuscelli, Antonio - In: Annual Review of Resource Economics 6 (2014) 1, pp. 493-512

This article reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalization on poverty in developing countries and asks whether our knowledge has changed significantly over a decade. The conclusion that liberalization generally boosts income and thus reduces poverty has not changed; some...

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Least-Developed Countries' Trade During the "Super-Cycle" and the Great Trade Collapse: Patterns and Stylized Facts

Escaith, Hubert; Tamenu, Bekele - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2013

LDCs' trade patterns changed in the past decade, thanks to the rebalancing of global demand towards large emerging countries and the resulting cycle of high international commodity prices. This process led to a wider geographical diversification of LDCs' exports but contributed also to a greater...

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Export Competitiveness of Developing Countries and U.S. Trade Policy

Hakobyan, Shushanik - Verein für Socialpolitik, Ausschuss für … - 2011

of Competitive Needs Limits (CNL) built into the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). CNLs are arguably imposed on … super competitive GSP beneficiaries and aim to limit their exporting capacity. We exploit the variation in the timing of the … implementation of the CNLs across countries to identify the impact. We find that being excluded from the GSP due to a CNL induces a …

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Has Trade Intensity in ASEAN+3 Really Increased? Evidence from a Gravity Analysis

Kim, Heungchong - East Asian Bureau of Economic Research (EABER) - 2002

This study examines the observable phenomenon of growing trade intensity among the ASEAN+3 countries over the last twenty years by using standard gravity approach. While there is a conventional belief that trade intensities within CJK (China Japan and Korea) and between CJK and ASEAN have...

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Trade Liberalization and Embedded Institutional Reform: Evidence from Chinese Exporters

Khandelwal, Amit K.; Schott, Peter K.; Wei, Shang-Jin - In: American Economic Review 103 (2013) 6, pp. 2169-95

If trade barriers are managed by inefficient institutions, trade liberalization can lead to greater-than-expected gains. We examine Chinese textile and clothing exports before and after the elimination of externally imposed export quotas. Both the surge in export volume and the decline in export...

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Protectionism, free trade and preferential trade: the Mexican experience 1970-2005

Napoles, Pablo Ruiz - In: Banca Nazionale del Lavoro Quarterly Review 60 (2007) 240, pp. 49-81

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Intra-middle eastern trade: why is it so low?

Askari, Hossein; Atie, Rana; Khouri, Nicolas - In: BNL Quarterly Review 56 (2003) 226, pp. 223-257

The Middle East has one of the highest ratios of exports to GDP in the world, yetintra-regional trade level is one of the lowest. Intra-Middle Eastern trade is examined in detail to assess the reasons for the low level of regional trade and to recommend policies for promoting trade within the area.

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