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Barriers to the adoption of social welfare measures in the electricity tariff structure of developing countries : a case of Pakistan

Jan, Muhammad Zain; Ullah, Kafait; Abbas, Faisal; … - In: Energy policy 179 (2023), pp. 1-14

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Size Inequality, Coordination Externalities and International Trade Agreements

Saggi, Kamal; Limao, Nuno - Vanderbilt University Department of Economics - 2011

Developing countries now account for a significant fraction of both world trade and two thirds of the membership of the World Trade Organization (WTO). However, many are still individually small and thus have a limited ability to bilaterally extract and enforce trade concessions from larger...

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What's left for the WTO?

Bown, Chad P. - 2016

currently applied tariffs are "too high," the implication being that there are still tariff reductions out there for an … agreement like the WTO to facilitate. These three areas include applied tariffs for countries that are not members of the WTO …, applied tariffs for WTO members that are unbound, and applied tariffs for WTO members set in the presence of large amounts of …

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Tariff Binding and Overhang : Theory and Evidence

Beshkar, Mostafa - 2012

lower international market power. Using the WTO tariff bindings and the applied tariffs of the WTO member countries, we find …

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Tariff overhang and aid : theory and empirics

Lorz, Oliver; Thede, Susanna - 2018 - This Version: January 15, 2018

In this paper, we consider aid payments as a possible explanation for tariff overhangs. According to our hypothesis, rich countries may use development aid to pay for tariff concessions. Developing countries, in turn, may anticipate such a policy in the negotiations for tariff bindings. Setting...

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Impact of Changes in Tariffs on Developing Countries' Government Revenue

Kowalski, Przemyslaw - 2005

effects of reducing tariffs and simultaneously replacing lost tariff revenues with revenues from consumption tax. It concludes …

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Fiscal Implications of Multilateral Tariff Cuts

Elborgh-Woytek, Katrin - 2006

of low- and middle-income countries. The study applies a linear optimization framework to data for bound tariffs, applied … tariffs, and imports at the HS-6 digit level for 58 developing countries, and simulates results for different sets of import …

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On Selective Indirect Tax Reform in Developing Countries

Emran, M. Shahe; Stiglitz, Joseph E. - 2011

The current consensus on indirect tax reform in developing countries favors a reduction in trade taxes with an increase in VAT to raise revenue. The theoretical results on selective reform that underlie this consensus are, however, derived from partial models that ignore the existence of an...

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Dynamics of the Trade Balance and the Terms of Trade in Ldcs : The S-Curve

Senhadji, Abdelhak S. - 1998

Backus, Kehoe and Kydland in their analysis of the dynamic effect of terms of trade on the trade balance found that the lead and lag correlation between these two variables is S-shaped for a set of OECD countries. Furthermore, they show that this S-curve can be replicated by a two-country...

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Are Crisis-Induced Devaluations Contractionary?

Rajan, Ramkishen S. - 2009

Why are some currency crises followed by economic contractions while others are not? This paper is an attempt at answering this query. In particular, we investigate two closely related questions. First, we explore whether there is a difference in the output effects of a devaluation during...

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