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World commodity markets-and particularly the markets for agricultural commodities-remain highly distorted despite the … wave of liberalization that has swept world trade since the 1980s. Some markets for commodities are characterized by … policy action. Commodity markets are distorted on both the export and the import sides, with serious implications for world …
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Paul Wolfowitz, President of the World Bank, complimented the impressive work of agencies like the Japan International … Cooperation Agency and the Japan Bank for International Cooperation. Japan is a big player everywhere in the world. The World Bank …
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This paper analyzes the economic effects of agricultural price and merchandise trade policies around the world as of … in the use of unskilled labor)? Results are presented for the key countries and regions of the world and for the world as …
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Britain contrary to received wisdom was not a free trader for most of the 1800s and, despite repeal of the Corn Laws, continued to have higher tariffs than the French until the last quarter of the century. War with Louis fourteenth from 1689 led to the end of all trade between Britain and France...
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Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China …
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This paper presents new data on the content of preferential trade agreements. The data contain detailed information on the 18 policy areas most frequently covered in preferential trade agreements, focusing on the stated objectives, substantive commitments, and other aspects such as transparency,...
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. Trade policy developments are mixed. Restrictive trade measures imposed during 2018 affected 3.8 percent of world …-for-tat tariffs between the United States and China alone affected 2.0 percent of world merchandise trade in 2018. Ongoing trade … a multilateral approach and World Trade Organization reforms …
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With the success of the World Trade Organization and its predecessor, the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade, in … literature on non-tariff measures in the world trading system. It provides a set of stylized facts based on available data on non … measures in the trade literature with a focus on the rules and institutions that govern non-tariff measures in the world …
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This paper assesses the potential impacts of the removal of agricultural and other trade distortions using a newly developed dataset and methodological approach for evaluating the global poverty and inequality effects of policy reforms. It finds that liberalization of agriculture will increase...
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