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The post-crisis sequencing of economic integration in Asia : trade as a complement to a monetary future
Plummer, Michael G. - 2007
Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years.These accords span the real and financial sectors; rather than following the more typical pattern of "trade first,money later", recent policy initiatives involve the simultaneous...
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Can Regional Integration Accelerate Development in Africa? CGE Model Simulations of the Impact of the SADC FTA on the Republic of Madagascar
Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2007
Madagascar plans to start phasing out its customs tariffs on imports from the Southern African Development Community in 2007. This paper uses a CGE model to evaluate the impact of the SADC FTA on Madagascar economy. The results suggest that the SADC FTA would only have a limited impact on...
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Sustainable development impact of trade and investment liberalization in Asia and the Pacific
Narayanan, Badri; Duval, Yann; Kravchenko, Alexey; … - 2017
Trade and investment can be effective means of implementation of the 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda. However, stand-alone trade and investment liberalization policies aimed at enhancing economic development may have negative side-effects on non-economic facets of sustainable development. As...
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Regionalism and ECOWAS Trade Performance : A Gravity Model Approach
Olanrewaju, Afolabi - 2017
This paper investigates bilateral trade flows and the level of openness across ECOWAS-15 nations for the period of 1981-2013 using Poisson pseudo maximum likelihood (PPML), fully modified ordinary least squares (FMOLS) and canonical cointegrating regression (CCR). Comparing the results, the...
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Five essays on international trade, factor flows, and the gains from globalization
Heiland, Inga - 2017
This volume was prepared by Inga Heiland while she was working at the Ifo Institute. It was completed in July 2016 and accepted as a doctoral thesis by the Department of Economics at the University of Munich. It comprises five chapters addressing one or more aspects of international trade and...
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Trade Integration and Production Networks in Asia : The Role of China
Arndt, Sven W. - 2008
This paper examines the implications of cross-border component sourcing and production networks for trade competitiveness and welfare. Offshore sourcing of components in which it has comparative disadvantage, enables a country to enhance its comparative advantage in the final product. This...
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China and India : a tale of two trade integration approaches
Kowalski, Przemyslaw (contributor) - 2008
The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals … manufacturing trade, have gone further and that this is likely one of the key determinants of better economic performance of China …. Still, China’s integration process so far remains characterized by a certain duality. On the one hand the opening up of …
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Trade facilitation in developing countries
Milner, Chris (contributor); Morrissey, Oliver (contributor) - 2008
Measures to actively facilitate trade are increasingly seen as essential to assist developing countries in expanding trade and benefiting from globalisation. Although often viewed as narrowly concerned with the ease and speed of Customs procedures, even greater trade cost reductions and trade...
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Looking Forward : The Economic and Trade Environment in the First Decades of the 21st Century
Ciuriak, Dan - 2020
It is a cliché to say that the pace of change has accelerated. But the pace of change since the middle of the 1990s has been phenomenal. Somewhere in the mid-1990s, the world economy (and its political economy) seems to have taken a blind curve and started down an uncharted road, leaving...
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Trade Policy Analysis at a Sub-National Level : Replacing Canada by Its Provinces in the GTAP Model
Lysenko, Dmitry - 2015
This paper develops a new version of the GTAP database in which Canada is replaced by its provinces in order to allow the analysis of international trade agreements at a subnational level. The methodology in effect treats the individual provinces as separate trading entities, much like the...
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