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Estimates of Ad Valorem Equivalents of Barriers Against Foreign Suppliers of Services in Eleven Services Sectors and 103 Countries
Jafari, Yaghoob; Tarr, David G. - 2014
A new database on the barriers faced by foreign suppliers of services has been produced by the World Bank. Data for 103 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012572134
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Trading Market Access for Competition Policy Enforcement
Hoekman, Bernard M.; Saggi, Kamal - 2013
Motivated by discussions at the World Trade Organization (WTO) on multilateral disciplines with respect to competition …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559628
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Beyond Tariffs and Quotas : Why Don't African Manufacturers Export More?
Clarke, George R. G. - 2012
trade have been falling, Africa's share of world exports has declined and most African countries remain highly dependent on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554105
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Trade Causes Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bruckner, Markus; Lederman, Daniel - 2012
In the 1990s the mainstream consensus was that trade causes growth. Subsequent research shed doubt on the consensus view, as evidence suggested that the identification of the effect of trade on growth was problematic in the existing literature. This paper contributes to this debate by focusing...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012572456
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Trade Facilitation and Economic Development : Measuring the Impact
Mann, Catherine L.; Otsuki, Tsunehiro; Wilson, John S. - 2003
. They estimate the relationship between these indicators and trade flows using a gravity model. The model includes tariffs …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012573241
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The Challenge of Reducing Subsidies and Trade Barriers
Anderson, Kym - 2013
This is one of 10 studies for the Copenhagen Consensus Project that sought to evaluate the most feasible opportunities to improve welfare globally and alleviate poverty in developing countries. The author argues that phasing out distortionary government subsidies and barriers to international...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559844
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Import Demand Elasticities and Trade Distortions
Kee, Hiau Looi; Nicita, Alessandro; Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2013
To study the effects of tariffs on gross domestic product (GDP), one needs import demand elasticities at the tariff … or import-weighted average tariffs would suggest. Thus, distortion is nontrivial. GDP losses are largest in China …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012559886
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The Empirical Landscape of Trade Policy
Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2016
represented 83 percent of the world's population and 91 percent of the world's GDP in 2013. It addresses the following five … setting trade policy? Finally, how liberalized is world trade? The analysis documents the extent of cross … concludes that substantial trade policy barriers remain as an important feature of the world economy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012571184
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Taking Stock of Antidumping, Safeguards, and Countervailing Duties, 1990-2009
Bown, Chad P. - 2010
subject to the combined use of these TTBs before applying these measures to new data drawn from the World Bank's Temporary …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012572448
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Guide to the Services Trade Restrictions Database
Borchert, Ingo; Gootiiz, Batshur; Mattoo, Aaditya - 2012
A new Services Trade Restrictions Database collects and makes publicly available information on services trade policy assembled in a comparable manner across 103 countries, five sectors (telecommunications, finance, transportation, retail and professional services) and the key modes of service...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012554539