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The East Asia and Pacific Economic Update provides regular, biannual analyses of development trends and economic policy issues across the East Asia and Pacific region.
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outcomes from World Trade Organization (WTO) disputes over 1995?2009. The evidence is consistent with theoretical predictions … demand elasticities, and smaller foreign export supply elasticities. Dispute settlement outcome differences are also …
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Fernandes explores Colombian trade policy from 1977-91, a period of substantial variation in protection across industries, to examine whether increased exposure to foreign competition generates plant-level productivity gains. Using a large panel of manufacturing plants, she finds a strong...
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The methodological problems associated with standard partial equilibrium models may impart a significant bias in their projections of the trade effects of tariff cuts. First, these models fail to account for the price-raising effects of nontariff barriers (NTBs) that shift the supply curve for...
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The authors focus on the evaluation of the antidumping regime from 1988 through 2003. During these years the Brazilian economy had to cope with several periods of macroeconomic instability and overvaluation of the domestic currency, particularly from 1990-92 and 1994-98. As a result, from 1992...
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Can the clothing sector be a driver of export diversification and growth for today's low-income countries as it was in … changes to the market for clothing: the emergence of India and especially China as exporting countries; the rise of global … factors shaping the global clothing market, the authors estimate a gravity model to explain jointly the propensity to export …
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; experienced higher growth rates for exports, imports, and GDP; and were more successful integrating with the world economy … the World Bank's index of the speed with which countries are integrating into the world economy. Their results show that … constraining commercial activity) are among the world's highest. Improving African trade and governance policies to levels …
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. Usually at the request of client governments of the World Bank, the authors have implemented many computable general … sales in Southern countries. 5) Multilateral trade liberalization results in significantly larger gains to the world than …
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The author considers the policy options of the West Bank and Gaza with respect to trade and the export of labor …
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World Bank demographic and country characteristic statistics identify 16 small landlocked countries that are similar to … export ventures for Lesotho, do they indicate directions for a geographic diversification of trade, or do they suggest … evaluate Lesotho's export performance in this major market. The U.S. data indicate Lesotho lost competitive export shares for …
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