Effects Of Trade Liberalisation Policy On Nigerian Agricultural Exports

TRADE LIBERALISATION Lecture Notes

Trade Liberalisation and Tuberculosis

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Projecting the Effects of Agricultural Trade Liberalization on Trade ,

Integration into the world economy has accelerated economic growth in many developing countries, providing an essential impetus to poverty reduction (IMF 2001). Continuing growth and integration of world markets, however, has reduced the distinction between domestic and international policies and provoked criticism of the trade-restricting measures of developed countries. The highly protected a...

Trade Policy Uncertainty and Exports: Evidence from China’s WTO Accession

To understand the effects of trade policy uncertainty on firm-level export decisions, we study firm-product data on Chinese exports to the U.S. in the years surrounding China’s 2001 WTO accession. Following predictions based on a model of heterogeneous firms, we provide empirical evidence that product-level tariff uncertainty reduction spurred a notable reallocation of export activities across ...

The Role of the World Bank in the Transfer of Policy Knowledge on Trade Liberalisation

This paper uses theories of policy learning and of policy-making to examine how global institutions such as the World Bank can influence policy choices by developing countries in the area of trade liberalisation. In pure learning by doing, policy choices are based on information relating to the history of an active policy; there is no information on alternative policies. New information on prio...