Search Results - subject:"UNILATERAL LIBERALIZATION"

Comesa and Sadc; Prospects and Challenges for Regional Trade Integration

Khandelwal, Padamja - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2004

Regional integration has been seen in Africa as a means of encouraging trade and securing economies of scale. This paper examines in detail the prospects and challenges for trade expansion in the two most prominent arrangements in eastern and southern Africa: the Common Market for Eastern and...

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The WTO Promotes Trade, Strongly But Unevenly

Wei, Shang-Jin; Subramanian, Arvind - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper furnishes robust evidence that the GATT/WTO has had a powerful and positive impact on trade. The impact has, however, been uneven. GATT/WTO membership for industrial countries has been associated with a large increase in imports estimated at about 40 percent of world trade. The same...

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What Would a Development-Friendly WTO Architecture Really Look Like?

Subramanian, Arvind; Mattoo, Aaditya - International Monetary Fund (IMF) - 2003

This paper elaborates on a number of key principles that need to underpin a coherent and development-friendly architecture for the WTO. The key principles include enlarging the scope of WTO bargaining to include labor flows as well as capital flows; creating a structure that would provide a...

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Does unilateral liberalization promote WTO GATS commitment? : cross-country evidence from the telecommunications sector

Alam, Quamrul - In: Journal of the Asia Pacific economy 16 (2011) 1, pp. 29-49

This paper addresses two questions: (1) does unilateral liberalization in the telecommunications sector promote a … in the telecommunications sector, we argue that unilateral liberalization, in most cases, acts as a push factor and … provides the grounds for making multilateral WTO commitments. Apart from unilateral liberalization, a country also requires the …

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Lithuania; Recent Economic Developments

International Monetary Fund (IMF); International … - 1996

This paper reviews economic developments in Lithuania during 1993â€“96. Economic growth resumed in 1994 and gained further momentum in 1995; real GDP increased by an estimated 3 percent in 1995. Growth in 1995 was driven by the industrial sector, while agriculture performed poorly. The...

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Trade Policy and Labor Services: Final Status Options for the West Bank and Gaza

Schiff, Maurice - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

This paper considers the policy options of the West Bank and Gaza (WBG) with respect to trade and the exports of labor services. It concludes that i) a non-discriminatory trade policy (NDTP) is unambiguously superior to an FTA with Israel; ii) the WBG should pursue a NDTP with all its neighbors,...

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FTA, Customs Union or Unilateral Trade Policy? Final Status Options for “the West Bank and Gaza”

Schiff, Maurice - In: Journal of Economic Integration 18 (2003), pp. 17-41

This paper considers regional and unilateral trade policy options for the West Bank and Gaza (WBG). It examines the welfare implications of a free trade agreement (FTA) with Israel, a customs union (CU) with Israel, and a nondiscriminatory trade policy (NDTP). The analysis captures the fact that...

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Should Credit be Given for Autonomous Liberalization in Multilateral Trade Negotiations?

Mattoo, Aaditya; Olarreaga, Marcelo - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2001

negotiations, which creates an ex ante assurance that any unilateral liberalization will receive credit in the next round. Such a …

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