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Agricultural Policies and Trade Paths in Turkey

Larson, Donald F. - 2017

In 1959, shortly after the European Economic Community was founded under the 1957 Treaty of Rome, Turkey applied for … Associate Membership in the then six-member common market. By 1963, a path for integrating the economies of Turkey and the … essay traces the influences the Turkey-European Union economic institutions have had on agricultural policies and the …

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Implementing Carbon Tariffs : A Fool's Errand?

Moore, Michael - 2017

Some governments are considering taxes on imports based on carbon content from countries that have not introduced climate change policies. Such carbon border taxes appeal to domestic industries facing higher charges for their own carbon emissions. This research demonstrates that there are...

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Equity, Welfare, and the Setting of Trade Policy in General Equilibrium

Francois, Joseph F.; Rojas-Romagosa, Hugo - 2005

We analyze general equilibrium relationships between trade policy and the household distribution of income, decomposing social welfare into real income level and variance components and emphasizing Gini and Atkinson indexes. We embed these inequality adjusted social welfare functions in a...

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Russian Federation, the World Trade Organization, and the Eurasian Customs Union : Tariff and Non-Tariff Policy Challenges

Ferrantino, Michael Joseph - 2017

This paper assesses issues relating to tariffs and nontariff measures (NTMs) in relation to Russia's World Trade Organization (WTO) and Eurasian Customs Union (ECU) commitments. The analysis finds that full implementation of Russia's WTO tariff schedule through 2020, would raise goods imports by...

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Impact of WTO Accession and the Customs Union on the Bound and Applied Tariff Rates of the Russian Federation

Shepotylo, Oleksandr - 2017

After 18 years of negotiations, Russia has joined the World Trade Organization. This paper assesses how the tariff structure of the Russian Federation will change as a result of the phased implementation of its World Trade Organization commitments between 2012 and 2020 and how it has changed as...

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The World Trade Organization's Doha Cotton Initiative : A Tale of Two Issues

Valenzuela, Ernesto - 2016

Four West African nations have demanded that the World Trade Organization's Doha Development Agenda include a Cotton Initiative that involves two issues: cutting cotton subsidies and tariffs, and assisting farm productivity growth in Africa. The authors provide estimates of the potential...

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Trade Policy Flexibilities and Turkey : Tariffs, Antidumping, Safeguards, and WTO Dispute Settlement

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

, empirically-based assessment of ways that Turkey exercised trade policy flexibilities during the global economic crisis of 2008 …-11. First, and despite multilateral and customs union commitments that might limit changes to applied tariffs, Turkey made … manufacturing imports and 10 percent of import product lines. Second, Turkey's cumulative application of temporary trade barrier …

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Economic Effects of the Syrian War and the Spread of the Islamic State on the Levant

Ianchovichina, Elena - 2017

Republic of Egypt, Iraq, Jordan, Lebanon, the Syrian Arab Republic, and Turkey -- to quantify the direct and indirect economic …

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Place-Based Policies for Development

Duranton, Gilles - 2018

Many development policies, such as placement of infrastructure or local economic development schemes, are "place-based." Such policies are generally intended to stimulate private sector investment and economic growth in the treated place, and as such they are difficult to appraise and evaluate....

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Small State Regional Cooperation, South-South and South-North Migration, and International Trade

Schiff, Maurice W. - 2017

This paper provides a different basis than previous analyses for regional bloc formation and regional migration. Due to low bargaining power and fixed costs, small states face a severe disadvantage in negotiations with the rest of the world and might benefit by forming a regional bloc. The study...

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