Search Results - subject:"trade policy"

Trade issues affecting disaster response

Roberts, Michael; Mohammed, Nazia - 2017 - Manuscript date: March 2017

The frequency, severity and economic impact of natural disasters are growing. Import surges resulting from disaster-response efforts can highlight underlying structural failings in the border clearance regimes of disaster-affected countries. Relief supplies, specialized personnel and agencies...

The falling elasticity of global trade to economic activity : testing the demand channel

Auboin, Marc; Borino, Floriana - 2017 - Manuscript date: April 2017

Since the recovery from the great financial crisis in 2010, global real trade flows grew much slower than pre-crisis, in both absolute terms (growth rates) and relative terms (relative to GDP, from 2:1 in the great 1990's to 1:1 since 2012) A debate has arisen as to whether this global trade...

The Southern African poultry value chain : regional development versus national imperatives

Ncube, Phumzile; Roberts, Simon; Zengeni, Tatenda - 2017

This paper highlights the key strategies, both regional and domestic, that have led to the current structure of the poultry value chain in Southern Africa. While large firm strategies in poultry have been found to be regional in nature, and important regional developments in soybean production,...

All these worlds are yours, except India : the effectiveness of export subsidies in Nepal

Defever, Fabrice; Reyes, José-Daniel; Riaño, Alejandro; … - 2017 - This version: March 16, 2017

This paper evaluates the effect on firm-level export outcomes of the Cash Incentive Scheme for Exports program provided by the Government of Nepal. The analysis utilizes customs-level data for 2011-14, combined with information on the subsidy payments made to individual firms provided by the...

Join hands or walk alone? : evidence on lobbying for trade policy in India

Saha, Amrita - 2017

Using primary evidence for 146 Indian manufacturing firms, I examine the types of lobbying strategies for trade policy … chances of trade policy influence. This suggests a strong competition effect (driving cooperation and individual lobbying …) over any free-riding that drives firm strategy to lobby for trade policy influence in India. Finally, availability of …

Georgia's post-accession structural reform challenges

Arveladze, G.; Smeets, Maarten - 2017 - Manuscript date: May 2017

The process leading to WTO accession is complex, requires solid domestic coordination mechanisms in the acceding country, a rethinking of its economic and trade policies and significant domestic structural reforms. It often implies the creation of new institutions designed to coordinate and...

A review of imports structure and reforms in Ghana

Vacu, Nomfundo Portia; Odhiambo, Nicholas M. - In: EuroEconomica 36 (2017) 1, pp. 144-158

Labeling demands, coexistence and the challenges for trade

Smyth, Stuart J.; Kerr, William A.; Phillips, Peter W. B. - In: Journal of agricultural & food industrial organization 15 (2017) 1, pp. 1-10

Approaches to set rules for trade in the products of agricultural biotechnology : is harmonization under Trans-Pacific partnership possible?

Viju, Crina; Kerr, William A.; Smyth, Stuart J. - In: Journal of agricultural & food industrial organization 15 (2017) 1, pp. 1-17

The economics of trade liberalization : Charles S. Peirce and the Spanish Treaty of 1884

Wible, James R.; Hoover, Kevin D. - 2017

In the 1870s and 1880s, the scientist, logician, and pragmatist philosopher Charles S. Peirce possessed an advanced knowledge of mathematical economics, having mastered and criticized Cournot as early as 1871. In 1884 he engaged in a multi-round debate with the editors of The Nation over the...