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Taking another look at policy research on China's accession to the World Trade Organization

Ianchovichina, Elena; Martin, Will - 2019

Recent work on China's accession to the World Trade Organizations pays little attention to the wave of reforms in China … exports and set the stage for China's increases in domestic value added and reduction in China's involvement in global … accession-related effects on export volumes in the literature, finds that the accession must have increased China's real export …

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Trading off the income gains and the inequality costs of trade policy

Artuc, Erhan; Rijkers, Bob; Porto, Guido G. - 2019

This paper characterizes the trade-off between the income gains and the inequality costs of trade using survey data for 54 developing countries. Tariff data on agricultural and manufacturing goods are combined with household survey data on detailed income and expenditure patterns to estimate the...

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Trade policy responses to the COVID-19 pandemic crisis : evidence from a new data set

Evenett, Simon J.; Fiorini, Matteo; Fritz, Johannes; … - 2020

This paper presents new high-frequency data on trade policy changes targeting medical and food products since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic, documenting how countries used trade policy instruments in response to the health crisis on a week-by-week basis. The data set reveals a rapid...

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COVID-19, public procurement regimes, and trade policy

Hoekman, Bernard M.; Shingal, Anirudh; Eknath, Varun; … - 2021

This paper analyzes a prominent dimension of the initial policy response to the COVID-19 pandemic observed in many countries: the imposition of export restrictions and actions to facilitate imports. Weekly data on the use of trade policy instruments during the first seven months of the COVID-19...

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From currency depreciation to trade reform : how to take Egyptian exports to new levels?

Youssef, Hoda; Zaki, Chahir - 2019

The Arab Republic of Egypt is yet to meet its exports potential, which has been historically hampered by several domestic market distortions and multiple barriers, resulting in weak export performance and modest regional and global integration. Although the liberalization of the exchange rate in...

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