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The Doha Round and the Future Architecture of the Multilateral Regulation of Trade in Services

Natens, Bregt - 2013

At the multilateral level, the General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) regulates trade in services. Considered a framework agreement, GATS contains a built-in negotiation mandate to further develop disciplines on services trade. These negotiations have, in the context of the Doha Round,...

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Strengthening India-Nepal economic relations

Taneja, Nisha; Prakash, Shravani; Bimal, Samridhi; … - 2019

India and Nepal have traditionally shared a unique relationship of friendship and economic cooperation. The relationship is characterized by an open and people-friendly border and is built on shared historical, cultural, linguistic, ethnic links between people residing in India and Nepal. With...

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Firm performance and trade with low-income countries : evidence from China ; conference paper

Schmerer, Hans-Jörg; Wang, Luhang - 2014

trade share around and after China's accession to the World Trade Organization. Based on this stylized fact we analyze the …

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Trade for Growth and Poverty Reduction : How Aid for Trade Can Help

Hallaert, Jean-Jacques - 2012

Trade promotes economic growth, alleviates poverty and helps countries reach their development goals. However, developing countries – in particular the least developed – face difficulties in making trade happen and turning trade into economic growth. The Aid for Trade Initiative – launched...

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Trade Costs, Global Value Chains and Economic Development

Zi, Yuan - 2016

This paper develops a model to study the impact of trade costs on developing countries' industrialization when sequential production is networked in global value chains (GVCs). In a two-country setting, a decrease in trade costs of intermediate goods is associated with South joining and moving...

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Potential for Trade between Developing and Least Developed Countries : A CGE Analysis

Ahmed, Shahid - 2011

This study investigates the potential trade flows between developing (DCs) and least developed countries (LDCs) as a result of tariff liberalization using a computable general equilibrium model called the GTAP-model. Both unilateral and bilateral tariff liberalization has been examined and...

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Reputation Matters : Spillover Effects in the Enforcement of US SPS Measures

Jouanjean, Marie Agnes - 2013

This paper uses a novel dataset on US food import refusals to show that reputation is an important factor in the enforcement of sanitary and phyto-sanitary (SPS) measures. The strongest reputation effect comes from a country's own history of compliance in relation to a particular product. The...

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Reputation Matters : Spillover Effects in the Enforcement of US SPS Measures

Jouanjean, Marie Agnes - 2012

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The Effects of Trade, Aid, and Investment on China's Image in Developing Countries

Eichenauer, Vera - 2018

One goal of China's Go Out policy is to create goodwill in countries around the world. At the same time, China … attitudes of individuals in developing countries towards China at both the national and subnational level. Using repeated cross … investment from China to Latin America affect opinions on China within 18 Latin American countries over the 2002-2013 period. We …

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Large hoarding of international reserves and the emerging global economic architecture

Aizenman, Joshua - 2007

competitive devaluations. The sheer size of China, and its lower sterilization costs suggests that China may be the winner of a … and precautionary motives in the context of China may be challenged by a version of the "peso problem"; Hoarding …

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