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performance of service sectors and improving access to specific services in developing countries. We show that prevailing services …, trade, and investment policies affect access to services that matter for the realization of a number of SDGs: lower trade … restrictiveness is an instrument that can enhance the performance of domestic services sectors. This implies that pursuit of the UN …
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The realization of many of the sustainable development goals (SDGs) depends on bolstering the performance of services … sectors and improving access to specific services in developing countries. We show that prevailing services trade and … investment policies impact on access to services that matter for the realization of a number of SDGs: lower trade restrictiveness …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012948224
This paper investigates if trade can help achieve the United Nations Sustainable Development Goal of poverty eradication using microeconomic and macroeconomic mechanisms and the effects of trade and trade policy on consumer prices, producer prices, and wages. As these mechanisms affect the real...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011576860
This paper presents an overview of the trade and policy issues in the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It assesses the dramatic changes in the political, economic, and business background from the early 2000s (shaping the MDGs) to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011591046
In this paper we consider the possible consequences that accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) bears for Belarus. Our approach is based on partial equilibrium. We have applied a method of locating specific 'sensitive' points in the economy and treating them as separate items specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012100070
In this paper we consider the possible consequences that accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) bears for Belarus. Our approach is based on partial equilibrium. We have applied a method of locating specific 'sensitive' points in the economy and treating them as separate items specific...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005321911
This paper presents an overview of the trade and policy issues in the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). It assesses the dramatic changes in the political, economic, and business background from the early 2000s (shaping the MDGs) to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012959924
This paper highlights the large contribution of services to the Brazilian economy and the under-exploited potential of … services to sustain productivity gains and international competitiveness. The areas with the largest potential for regulatory …, telecoms and financial services. Reforms targeting services that add value by favouring productivity and quality enhancements …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011582083
The massive empirical research on the relation between ‘outward orientation’ and economic well-being of countries has been hampered by lack of good measures of outward orientation that reflect a country’s international trade policy. A recently-constructed index of trade restrictiveness,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010991509
Korea has achieved remarkable economic development since the 1960s, rising within a single generation from one of the poorest countries in the world to one with an affluent economy supported by world-class industries and large production capacities. This successful development of Korea has been...
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