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Peruvian trade policies in the 1960-1985 period
The liberal trade policies of the pre-1960 years are reviewed in the first chapter, where an attempt to find the economic and political factors explaining the turn towards the protectionism and state intervention of later years is also made. Chapter 2 contains a review of the theory of protection …
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Harmonization of SACU trade policies in the tourism & hospitality service sectors
… with the provisions of the General Agreement of Trade in Services, commonly known as GATS, so that a Tourism and Hospitality Services Charter may be moulded that may be used uniformly throughout SACU. The specific objectives of the research are: To analyze impact assessment reports and studies …
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Distributional effects of the Mexican agricultural trade policies: The tomato case
… the welfare effects of Mexican tomato export policies. A voluntary import quota and production and export subsidies were used for the estimation of welfare impacts on Mexican consumers, producers and the government budget. Welfare effects were evaluated within a partial equilibrium framework …
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An Evaluation of Japanese Agricultural Trade Policies With a Multiregion - Multicommodity Model
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Essays on the Political Economy of Domestic and Trade Policies in the Presence of Production and Consumption Externalities
… the Grossman-Helpman models of endogenous trade policy formation to incorporate local and global production and consumption externalities, and to allow governments to choose domestic production or consumption policies together with trade interventions. The models presented are among the …
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A THEORETICAL AND EMPIRICAL STUDY OF PRODUCT QUALITY IN TURKEY: THE ROLES OF COMPETITION, CREDITS AND TRADE POLICIES
… research investigates the roles of competition, trade policies, and credits as factors affecting innovation and offers theoretical and empirical analysis to study the interrelationships between these variables. In the theoretical parts, we develop a number of predictions. To test these …
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Maize prices, trade and climate shocks - do trade policies mitigate the effects of climate shocks on maize prices?
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ECONOMIC DIVERSIFICATION: THE CASE OF SAUDI ARABIA WITH REFERENCE TO RICH NATURAL RESOURCE COUNTRIES
… or negatively influenced or affected the most by trade liberalization or the openness of trade. Knowing this we provide more rationale in designing the Kingdom’s trade policies and one step forward to diversify the Saudi’s economy by stimulating those non-oil sectors through trade openness. …
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The Role of Aid for Trade and Foreign Direct Investment in Poverty Reduction: A Panel Data Analysis of 91 Developing Countries
<p>Aid for trade (AFT) focuses on helping developing nations to overcome supplyside constraints in trade to maximize trade benefits and use trade to achieve economic growth and poverty reduction. Since its inception at the 2005 Hong Kong ministerial conference, AFT has become viewed as a crucial …
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Enhancing the capacity of policy-makers to mainstream gender in trade policy and make trade responsive to women's needs: A South African perspective
The impact of trade policies on the pursuit of gender equality is often ignored. Recognising the link between trade and gender, this dissertation aims to enhance the capacity of policy-makers to mainstream gender in trade policy and to help identify ways for using trade to respond to women's needs …
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Maya Spiritual Praxis in the New Baktun: Ritual and Reclamation in 21st Century Chiapas
… Maya communities have struggled against free trade policies and federal legislation that denies them land rights and productive autonomy. Presently, the younger generations in Chiapas are struggling to re-claim their spiritual beliefs as connected to community ecology.
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Free Trade is Not Free: A Case for Fair Trade
<p>To this day, mainstream economists favor free trade policies as the best way to generate economic development. They do so at the expense of their unjustified romanticization of reductionist classical trade theories. This thesis seeks to comprehend the constraints of traditional trade theories …
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Runaway Film Production: A Critical History of Hollywood's Outsourcing Discourse
… work to cultivate goodwill and industry-friendly trade policies across global media markets. More critically, I argue that the history of runaway production tells the story of the development of a Hollywood labor diaspora: a globally dispersed labor force bound by a common cultural identity as …
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The World Trade Organisation and developing countries, with specific reference to South Africa
… special emphasis on the newly established World Trade Organisation (Hereinafter, WTO) and its implications for developing countries. This organisation has replaced the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (Hereinafter, GATT) as the overall mechanism for regulating international trade. The trade …
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Regional and interregional economic effects of the Free Trade Agreement between the United States and Canada
Even before the Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between the U.S. and Canada came into force on January 1, 1989, a substantial body of literature had been assembled on the future agreement and its likely economic effects on both countries. Despite the large number of studies in both countries, there had …
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The impact of trade liberalization on the production structure of firms: evidence from India
… works have looked at the effect of changes in trade policies on the pattern of production of firms in the developed world. In the context of an emerging economy, this paper looks at India's manufacturing firms' data for the period 1989 to 2003 focusing on reallocation of resources across …
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Foreign aid, trade and development: analysis of the past, prospects for the future
… as a comprehensive strategy that incorporates trade and aid activities. Such a policy will meet better American domestic and global interests. The dissertation examines aid and trade policies, the linkages between them, and their effect on LOCs' economic growth. The inquiry, conducted as a …
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Assessing the contribution of informal cross-border trade to regional integration in the Southern African Development Community using Social Networking Analysis (SNA)
… the SADC region pursue informal cross-border trade because of its socio-economic development impacts. The objectives of the study are to; a) examine the nature and dynamics of informal cross-border trading activities in selected Southern African Development Community (SADC) border regions; b) …
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Three Essays on Tariff and Non-Tariff Barriers to Trade and U.S. Market Access to China
International trade encourages innovation, boosts development, reduces poverty, creates new markets, enhances competitiveness, improves product quality, and expands the consumer choice set. This dissertation is composed of three papers examining barriers to agricultural trade. The first two papers …
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The Forgotten Lands: A Comparative Analysis of Economic Systems in Transition
… framework for its financing, and strategic trade policies.
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