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Accumulating trade costs and competitiveness in global value chains

Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert; Roberts, Michael; … - 2017 - Manuscript date: January 2017

Trade costs such as applied tariffs, transportation and insurance costs are amplified as they pass through the multiple production steps associated with modern supply chains. This so-called "cascade effect" arises since trade costs accumulate as intermediate goods are imported and then...

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Has the Multilateral Hong Kong Ministerial Decision on Duty Free Quota Free Market Access Provided a Breakthrough in the Least-Developed Countries' Export Performance?

World Trade Organization - 2016

a positive effect on LDCs' performance on merchandise exports, with this average positive effect being solely driven by … a positive effect on LDCs' export performance on primary products; the average effect on manufacturing exports has been …, as well as on the components of the latter, namely both primary product exports and manufacturing exports. However, the …

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What constrains Africa's exports?

Freund, Caroline L.; Rocha, Nadia - 2010

We examine the effects of transit, documentation, and ports and customs delays on Africa’s exports. We find that … transit delays have the most economically and statically significant effect on exports. A one day reduction in inland travel … times leads to a 7 percent increase in exports. Put another way, a one day reduction in inland travel times translates into …

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Trade in tasks, tariff policy and effective protection rates

Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - 2014 - Manuscript date: 31 October 2014

Building on the results of the OECD-WTO Trade in Value-Added TiVA database, the paper analyses the evolution of effective protection in about 50 developed and developing countries from 1995 to 2008. The paper reviews also the role of preferential agreements on effective protection as well as the...

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Revisiting growth accounting from a trade in value-added perspective

Escaith, Hubert - 2016 - Manuscript date: 24 February 2016

Global Manufacturing and International Supply Chains changed the way trade and international economics are understood today. The present essay builds on recent statistical advances to suggest new ways of looking at the demand and supply side approaches when Global Value Chains (GVCs) -...

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Preferential rules of origin in regional trade agreements

Donner Abreu, Maria - 2013 - Manuscript date: March 2013

This study surveys preferential rules of origin applied by 192 regional trade agreements (RTAs) covering trade in goods notified to the GATT/WTO up to 1 November 2010. It takes into account the preferential rules of origin that were notified to the WTO; whenever known and available,...

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Least-developed countries' trade during the "super-cycle" and the great trade collapse : patterns and stylized facts

Escaith, Hubert; Tamenu, Bekele - 2013 - Manuscript date: November 27, 2013

diversification of LDCs' exports but contributed also to a greater reliance on those highly priced commodities. Notwithstanding some …

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A new look at the extensive trade margin effects of trade facilitation

Beverelli, Cosimo; Neumüller, Simon; Teh, Robert - 2014 - Manuscript date: 13 October 2014

employ an identification strategy whereby only exports of new products, or exports to new destinations, are taken into …

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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects : potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)

Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014 - Manuscript date: 30 October, 2014

Transitioning from the post-2008 financial meltdown to a sustained period of global growth and prosperity involves a major challenge: how to ensure the effective management of international economic interdependence. Trade, growth, good governance and sustainable development constitute essential...

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Trade policy uncertainty as barrier to trade

Osnago, Alberto; Piermartini, Roberta; Rocha, Nadia - 2015 - Manuscript date: April 2015

This paper studies the effects of trade policy uncertainty on the extensive and the intensive margins of trade for a sample of 149 exporters at the HS6 digit level. We measure trade policy uncertainty as the gap between binding tariff commitments under trade agreements (multilateral and regional...

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