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Women's economic empowerment : an inherent part of Aid for Trade
Der Boghossian, Anoush - 2019 - Manuscript date: 25 April 2019
Aid for Trade supports developing and least-developed countries in building their trade capacity and in increasing their exports by turning market access opportunities into market presence. It does so by addressing four key areas: trade policy & regulations; economic infrastructure; building...
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Trade policies supporting women's economic empowerment : trends in WTO members
Der Boghossian, Anoush - 2019 - Manuscript date: 25 April 2019
This paper looks at the various trade policies WTO Members have put into place to foster women's economic empowerment. The analysis below is based on the information provided by WTO Members as part of their Trade Policy Review (TPRs) process from 2014 to 2018. Reports from the WTO Secretariat,...
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Should TPP be formed? : on the potential economic, governance, and conflict-reducing impacts of the Trans-Pacific Partnership Agreement
Bergstrand, Jeffrey H. - In: East Asian economic review 20 (2016) 3, pp. 279-309
welfare estimates that treat all firms within an industry as homogeneous with more recent CGE analyses that allow firms …
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Subsidies as Optimal Fiscal Stimuli
Molana, Hassan; Montagna, Catia; Kwan, Chang Yee - Department of Economics Studies, University of Dundee - 2010
hence typically reduce welfare. In this paper we consider the use of ‘tax-and-subsidise’ instead of ‘tax-and-spend’ policies … subsidies and show that, for a small open economy, positive tax and subsidy rates exist which maximise welfare, rendering no …
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Traded Goods, Tax and Intermediation - the Role of Corrupt Nontraded Sector
Mandal, Biswajit - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
and raises importable production while a tax cut does not have any effect. The welfare implication is ambiguous in case of … a decrease in cost of corruption. A tax cut, however, raises the welfare unambiguously. …
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Trade policy as an exogenous shock: focusing on the specifics
Greenland, Andrew; Lopresti, John W. - 2021
protection provided by a given specific tariff varies with price levels. Using digitized tariff line data between 1900 and 1940 …, we relate inflation-driven changes in trade protection to changes in imports and labor market outcomes in the full count …
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Cumulative benefits from trade liberalization for the South African economy
Bauer, Matthias; Freytag, Andreas - 2013
.51 per cent. This implies an increase in aggregate welfare of up to 21 billion US Dollars. This sum is the equivalent of what …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010189321
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Reduced time at customs through implementing the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA) would be a significant boost to intra-African trade for AfCFTA countries
De Melo, Jaime; Sorgho, Zakaria; Wagner, Laurent - 2023
All WTO members participate in the Trade Facilitation Agreement (TFA), a rules-based bottom-up approach built on monitorable provisions (e.g. the publication of information, advance rulings, appeal or review of decisions, transparency, and border agency cooperation) aimed at reducing time in...
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Cumulative benefits from trade liberalization for the South African economy
Bauer, Matthias; Freytag, Andreas - 2013
up to 4.51 per cent. This implies an increase in aggregate welfare of up to 21 billion US Dollars. This sum is the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010323884
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Women's economic empowerment: An inherent part of Aid for Trade
Der Boghossian, Anoush - 2019
Aid for Trade supports developing and least-developed countries in building their trade capacity and in increasing their exports by turning market access opportunities into market presence. It does so by addressing four key areas: trade policy & regulations; economic infrastructure; building...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012011418