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South-South Services Trade
This paper contributes to the debate on the development potential of South-South trade in services. It represents the first attempt to identify key...
South South Trade in Goods
The empirical analysis presented in this paper indicates that trade between developing countries (South-South trade) offers a wide scope for...
Non Tariff Barriers in Computable General Equilibrium Modelling
With diminishing tariffs, the focus of trade policy makers and analysts is logically turning towards non-tariff barriers (NTBs), but there much...
Estimating Price Elasticities of Supply for Cotton: A Structural Time-Series Approach
The Kalman Filter is used to estimate a structural time-series model of cotton supply for 30 countries and 16 aggregated regions. Estimated...
The Doha Negotiations on Trade in Goods: A European Perspective
The note reviews the basic market access issues in the Doha negotiations on trade in goods from an European perspective. First, it shows that some...
Water and Trade in Agriculture: Investigating Virtual Water Hypothesis in the Euro-Mediterranean Region
Agriculture remains central to Mediterranean economic development. It is also the main user of water as it employs 65% of all water withdrawals...
Debt Relief and Changing Governance Structures in Developing Countries
In this paper we empirically discuss the question whether or not debt relief in the past fifteen years has been economically rational. Analysing the...
FTAs and the Prospects for Regional Integration in Asia
Trade policy in Asia has switched from non-discriminatory unilateral liberalisation, reinforced by GATT/WTO commitments, to discriminatory FTAs....
Trade Preferences to Small Developing Countries and the Welfare Costs of Lost Multilateral Liberalization
The proliferation of preferential trade liberalization over the last 20 years has raised the question of whether it slows down multilateral trade...