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The Role of Intermediaries in Facilitating Trade

Wei, Shang-Jin; Ahn, Jaebin; Khandelwal, Amit K. - eSocialSciences - 2010

-level the census of China's exports. Intermediaries account for around 20% of China's exports in 2005. This implies that many …

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China and India: A Tale of Two Trade Integration Approaches

Kowalski, Przemyslaw - eSocialSciences - 2008

The comparison of the key features of trade integration processes and the economic outcomes in China and India reveals … manufacturing trade, have gone further and that this is likely one of the key determinants of better economic performance of China … to China. More generally the extent of liberalisation achieved so far in India and the outcomes it brought about suggest …

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Doha or Dada: The World Trade Regime at an Historic Crossroads

Deutsch, Klaus - eSocialSciences - 2011

This study was not alone in demonstrating that a deal on the Doha Round could be of huge benefit to the global economy. Assuming plausible enhancements in the course of further negotiations, the biggest-ever round of international trade liberalisation in absolute terms could indeed be realised....

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Kerala Fights Clock in ASEAN Free-Trade Deal

Devraj, Ranjit - eSocialSciences - 2009

The paper discusses the impacts of free-trade policy on the agricultural exports of Kerala.

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OECD Agricultural Trade Reforms Impact On India's Prces and Producer's Welfare

Mittal, Surabhi - eSocialSciences - 2007

The welfare of the producers are analysed with the main focus on small farmers. The analysis presented in the paper is an approximation of the general equilibrium analysis. The four parts of this approximation are: first, the estimation of the world price effect of removal of OECD (Organisation...

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Trade Policy and Urban-Rural Inequalities In LDCS: A Simulation Experiment With A New Economic Geography Model

Gelan, Ayele - eSocialSciences - 2007

This paper follows the new economic geography approach to model the relationships between trade policy and spatial agglomeration of production in the context of a small open developing economy. It constructs a general equilibrium model with interactions between centripetal forces and centrifugal...

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Trade Possibilities and Non-Tariff Barriers to Indo-Pak Trade

Taneja, Nisha - eSocialSciences - 2007

There is a large untapped trade potential between the two countries. Using the potential trade approach, the study finds that the export potential from India to Pakistan is to the tune of US$ 9.5 billion while that from Pakistan to India is US$ 2.2 billion. Items having export potential from...

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World Trade Report 2011- The WTO and Preferential Trade Agreements: From Co-existence to Coherence

eSocialSciences; World Trade Organisation WTO - 2011

The ever-growing number of preferential trade agreements (PTAs) is a prominent feature of international trade. The World Trade Report 2011 describes the historical development of PTAs and the current landscape of agreements. It examines why PTAs are established, their economic effects, and the...

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Determinants of Clusters in Indian Manufacturing: The Role of Infrastructure, Governance, Education, and Industrial Policy

Fernandes, Ana M.; Sharma, Gunjan - eSocialSciences - 2014

This paper investigates the determinants of spatial concentration and entry within manufacturing across states in India. Using an unbalanced panel of 180 industries spread across 16 major Indian states over the time period 1985-2007, the effect of location (state) characteristics interacted with...

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Trade Adjustment and Human Capital Investments: Evidence from Indian Tariff Reform

Topalova, Petia; Edmonds, Eric; Pavcnik, Nina - eSocialSciences - 2007

Do the short and medium term adjustment costs associated with trade liberalization influence schooling and child labor decisions? This question is examined in the context of India's 1991 tariff reforms. Overall, in the 1990s, rural India experienced a dramatic increase in schooling and decline...

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