This paper provides a descriptive assessment of Brazilian trade policies, with emphasis on the import regime. Import policies in Brazil during the post-war period have consisted basically of the use of tariff and non-tariff barriers to restrict external competition and, in doing so, promote the...

This paper addresses the question of the possible real side effects of exchange rate devaluation in a small dependent economy, with a specific empirical application to Jordan. A macroeconomic model is constructed on the basis of a number of stylized facts which characterize the Jordanian...