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The economics literature provides ample evidence that higher corruption discourages FDI inflows. In this paper we address, for the first time in the literature in a systematic way, the exact reverse link, i.e., the empirical effect of FDI inflows on corruption. We present a simple model that...
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protectionist policies in countries where workers will benefit from the imposition of tariffs and quotas. We test and confirm these …
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.The paper shows that a carbon tax should not be differentiated across sectors in the economy, provided import and export tariffs … cooperating countries if they are prevented from using tariffs on the traded goods. Informational or political factors … constraining the use of tariffs are also likely to constrain the possibility of differentiating carbon taxes between sectors …
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Notwithstanding the tariffication component of the Uruguay Round Agreement on Agriculture, import tariffs on farm …
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This paper reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalisation on poverty in developing countries and asks whether our knowledge has changed significantly over a decade. The conclusion that liberalisation generally boosts income and thus reduces poverty has not changed; some...
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general-equilibrium mapping from tariffs to household inequality measures. This also yields predictions for linkages between … tariffs, development level, and observed household inequality. Working with a new dataset, we then examine cross …
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which maintains the same volume of trade as a given set of tariffs, quotas, and domestic taxes and subsidies. We relate this …
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The paper estimates the correlation between tariffs and economic growth in the late nineteenth century, in the context … accumulation models. It does so for a panel of ten countries between 1875 and 1914. Tariffs were positively correlated with growth …
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This paper assesses the effects of reducing tariffs under the Doha Round on market access for developing countries. It … coverage or complex rules of origin. Thus lowering tariffs under the multilateral system is likely to lead to a net increase in …
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developed countries (LDCs), both directly and through the price-depressing effect of agricultural support policies. High tariffs … the impact of a 50 percent cut in tariffs and a 50 cut in domestic support for LDCs as compared to non-LDC developing …
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