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liberalization could move the world some way toward those desirable outcomes, but more so the more developing countries themselves …
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are built up using newly available tariff line data and their implications for world markets are established using a … global modeling framework. These world trade impacts, in turn, form the basis for 12 country case studies of the national … cross-section analysis, and a global analysis provides estimates for the world as a whole. …
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barriers (in agriculture and textiles) are particularly harmful to the world's poorest people, as are barriers to worker … process at the World Trade Organization (WTO), and freeing up the international movement of workers. A review of the economic … required to rank this set of opportunities against those aimed at addressing the world's other key challenges as part of the …
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. (2) Free world trade has similar, but larger, impacts. (3) Domestic trade liberalization induces an expansion of … liberalization effects far outweigh those of free world trade when these scenarios are combined. (5) Remittances constitute a …
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world markets. Using a partial-equilibrium, multi-market, international model, the authors analyze the trade and welfare …-South dimension with policies in India, and to a lesser extent China, heavily depressing the world prices of groundnut products at the …
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Most of the world's poorest people depend on farming for their livelihood. Earnings from farming in low …
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Anderson and Martin examine the extent to which various regions, and the world as a whole, could gain from multilateral … trade reform over the next decade. They use the World Bank's linkage model of the global economy to examine the impact first … of current trade barriers and agricultural subsidies, and then of possible outcomes from the World Trade Organization …
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Empirical evidence suggests that global trade reforms are unlikely to produce analogous results across countries, especially when analyzing their effect on poverty. This implies that the analysis of trade reform on social welfare cannot be generalized and needs to be conducted on a country by...
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It is argued that compared with large countries, small countries rely more on trade and therefore they are more likely to adopt liberal trading policies. The present paper extends this idea beyond the conventional trade openness measures by analyzing the relationship between country size and the...
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If one region of the world switches its research effort from dirty to clean technologies, will other regions follow To …
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