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Showing 1 to 20 of 99 for “"trade liberalization"”.
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Topics on trade liberalization and economic integration
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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Evaluating Stolper-Samuelson: Trade Liberalization & Wage Inequality in India
… Theorem in India after it underwent major trade reform in 1991. Using industry level tariff data, the paper empirically examines trade liberalization’s effect on the wages of high-skilled labor relative to low skilled labor within firms. The study finds empirical evidence to support growing …
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Trade liberalization and the structure of production in Tanzania
This thesis explores the role of trade and trade liberalization policies on Tanzanian economy with special focus on the performance of agricultural sector. In terms of methodology, we first use parametric and non-parametric tests to evaluate the impact of liberalization policies on the growth rate …
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Would Harmonizing Preferential Rules of Origin Aid Trade Liberalization?
… a good is deemed to originate in a preferential trade agreement partner country and consequently eligible for preferential tariff treatment.<br/>Unfortunately, preferential rules of origin have been misused by some countries to achieve protectionist, trade-diverting and political objectives. …
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Trade liberalization and firm dynamics evidence from Indian firms
… the firm level effects from the removal of trade barriers. It uses firm level data on Indian firms, and employs simple but effective specifications aimed to analyze the differential effects in sales and prices of goods previously quota bound compared to unbound products.
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The effect of trade liberalization on taxation and government revenue
This thesis investigates the trade and revenue impact of trade liberalization. The purpose is to address the following issues: to examine the effect of trade liberalization on the volume of imports and exports, taxation, and its association with the enhancement of the performance of overall tax …
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Impacts of trade liberalization policies on rice production in Haiti
… in Haiti corresponds directly with the trade liberalization that began during the mid 1980s. Before 1986, Haiti was self-sufficient in rice production even in the midst of low yields and traditional farming practices. An influx of rice imports from the United States priced lower than …
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The Impact of Trade Liberalization on the Indonesian Palm Oil and Coconut Oil Markets
In general, palm oil producers and crude palm oil exporters benefitted from the removal of the export tax. The government lost tax revenues and palm oil consumers suffered accordingly. However, the reduction in welfare to consumers was rather small due to an increase in the substitution between …
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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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Trade liberalization, fiscal federalism, and foreign capital inflows in the context of the Chinese reforms
… important areas in the Chinese economic reform--trade liberalization, the central-local governmental fiscal relation, and foreign investment.
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The effects of trade liberalization on household poverty in South African between 1996 and 2001
… markets and opened its borders to international trade, the economy has undergone a gradual process of trade reforms ensuring that the South African economy becomes competitive. It is recognized globally that trade liberalization is a key factor to enhancing economic welfare, trade, and …
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Commodity price stabilization and trade liberalization: the case of corn and livestock in the Philippines
… conducted to analyze the impacts of different trade and pricing policies on the grains and livestock sector in the Philippines. Four trade policy alternatives were evaluated: (a) base 1990 trade policies; (b) full trade liberalization in the grains and livestock sector: (c) a uniform 20 percent …
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From plan to market: firm-level adjustment to trade liberalization and business environment reform. Evidence from Vietnam
… three essays, provides empirical evidence of how trade liberalization, together with local business environment features, affects firms' performance in the context of a transitional country, Vietnam. The main focus centres particularly on firms' productivity (the first and second essays). As firms …
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Limits on state autonomy in regulating services trade: regional and international trade liberalization commitments and public morals
… autonomy of the states in regulating services trade in areas that concern their public morals and analyses whether the indeterminacy of the public morals exceptions in supranational trade regimes reveals fundamental flaws in the design of those regimes as they apply to trade in services with …
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Trade Liberalization and the Environment: A Study of NAFTA's Impact in El Paso, Texas and Juarez, Mexico
… a clearer understanding of relationships between trade liberalization and environmental quality in a free trade zone along an international border, between countries unevenly matched in development and infrastructure. Specifically, it examines whether theories of environmental degradation provide …
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The welfare economics and the political economy of Japanese beef trade liberalization: An empirical application of new political economy theory
Agricultural trade protection has been common in most industrialized nations for the last decades. While economic inefficiency of trade protection policy has been argued, the assertion may not hold if institutions functioning in economic equilibrium are appropriately recognized. Becker proposes …
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The legality of Botswana's import bans under the SACU agreement of 2002: an analysis of the SACU agreement's trade liberalization framework
… respective member countries, or in other words, trade liberalisation. SACU's trade liberalisation objectives are in line with Article XXIV of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT). Article XXIV of the GATT provides the legal framework for customs unions under international trade law. …
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The effects of trade liberalization on gender inequality in Central America and its relevance to the textile and apparel industry and academy
… Heckscher-Ohlin (1933) theory of international trade and the Becker (2010) theory of economic discrimination to examine the impact of CAFTA-DR and TA trade on gender (in)equality in CA. To achieve this purpose, the study used a mixed-methods research design and had two specific questions: (a) …
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