Download or read book Evaluating Bolivia s Choices for Trade Integration written by Sarath Rajapatirana and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Evaluating Bolivia s Choices for Trade Integration written by Sarath Rajapatirana and published by . This book was released on 2016 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bolivia - which has liber ...
Download or read book Evaluating Bolivia s Choices for Trade Integration written by Sarath Rajapatirana and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: August 1996 Bolivia -- which has liberalized its trade regime unilaterally on a most-favored-nation basis -- now faces a number of choices for maintaining its position within the Andean Group and for receiving preferential access to Mercosur. Given the size of the market and its potential for export growth, a preferential arrangement with Mercosur is probably the best choice. Regional integration initiatives have surged in Latin America at the same time that many countries on the continent have undertaken unilateral trade liberalization, and prospects for access to external markets have improved with the successful conclusion of the Uruguay Round. Rajapatirana examines the choices faced by one such country: Bolivia. To the extent that different regional trade agreements follow World Trade Organization (WTO) rules, they could increase access to markets and allow the countries to realize gains that unilateral liberalization might not have given them. In this sense, regional trade arrangement are not inconsistent with multilateral free trade based on the most-favored-nation (MFN) principle. Estimating export demand functions using ordinary least squares for different markets as well as an error correction model, constructing a trade compatibility index, and recognizing the presence of contraband trade, Rajapatirana examines Bolivia's four main options for regional integration and ranks them as follows (with the first being Bolivia's best choice): * MFN-based trade combined with a regional agreement that gives it preferential access to Mercosur (GATT-plus trade). * Joining Mercosur and maintaining duty-free access to the Andean Group. * Remaining within the Andean Group and receiving additional market-access concessions from Mercosur. * Remaining within the Andean Group and maintaining existing bilateral trading arrangements. These rankings merely reflect relative trade access to different markets, assuming stability of demand functions and trade and production patterns. In the final analysis, regional integration is not merely a matter of economics but is related to domestic and regional politics -- and those who gain from different choices will support those choices. MFN trade would elicit neither strong opposition nor strong support, as its benefits and costs are more symmetrically distributed than trade associated with increased regional integration. This paper -- a product of the Operations Policy Group, Operations Policy Department -- is part of a larger effort in the department to disseminate results of policy analysis.
Download or read book Methodology for Impact Assessment of Free Trade Agreements written by Michael G. Plummer and published by Asian Development Bank. This book was released on 2011-02-01 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication displays the menu for choice of available methods to evaluate the impact of Free Trade Agreements (FTAs). It caters mainly to policy makers from developing countries and aims to equip them with some economic knowledge and techniques that will enable them to conduct their own economic evaluation studies on existing or future FTAs, or to critically re-examine the results of impact assessment studies conducted by others, at the very least.
Download or read book A Practical Guide to Trade Policy Analysis written by Marc Bacchetta and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Trade flows and trade policies need to be properly quantified to describe, compare, or follow the evolution of policies between sectors or countries or over time. This is essential to ensure that policy choices are made with an appropriate knowledge of the real conditions. This practical guide introduces the main techniques of trade and trade policy data analysis. It shows how to develop the main indexes used to analyze trade flows, tariff structures, and non-tariff measures. It presents the databases needed to construct these indexes as well as the challenges faced in collecting and processing these data, such as measurement errors or aggregation bias. Written by experts with practical experience in the field, A Practical Guide to Trade Policy Analysis has been developed to contribute to enhance developing countries' capacity to analyze and implement trade policy. It offers a hands-on introduction on how to estimate the distributional effects of trade policies on welfare, in particular on inequality and poverty. The guide is aimed at government experts engaged in trade negotiations, as well as students and researchers involved in trade-related study or research. An accompanying DVD contains data sets and program command files required for the exercises. Copublished by the WTO and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development
Download or read book Agricultural Trade Policies in the Andean Group written by Tim Josling and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1997-01-01 with total page 52 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Chapter on Ecuador offers a comparison with other Andean Pact countries. Argues that Ecuador is most in need of stability and security offered by regional market access"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
Download or read book The Trade Policies of Developing Countries written by Sarath Rajapatirana and published by American Enterprise Institute. This book was released on 2000 with total page 70 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This account traces the relationship of the developing countries with the world economy, the factors leading to trade reforms, and the political economy aspects of reforms. A sample of 20 countries provides specific examples of reforms.
Download or read book Assessing Regional Integration in Africa written by United Nations. Economic Commission for Africa and published by United Nations, Economic Commission for Africa. This book was released on 2004 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This publication examines progress towards regional integration in Africa; defined as one of the anchoring ideals of African unity and the basis for the New Partnership for Africa's Development (NEPAD) development framework. The report analyses the current state of the integration process, highlighting where efforts have succeeded or failed. Findings include that progress has been mixed across sectors, regional economic communities and member states; with some notable progress in trade, communications, transport and macroeconomic policy. Overall however, substantial gaps remain between goals and achievements of most regional economic communities, particularly in terms of internal African trade, macroeconomic policy convergence, production and physical connectivity. A summary report is also available (ISBN 9211250927)
Download or read book Bolivia written by J. Valerie Fifer and published by Oxford, England : Clio Press. This book was released on 2000 with total page 376 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Policy Priorities for International Trade and Jobs written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2012-05-23 with total page 450 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Launched and co-ordinated by the OECD, the International Collaborative Initiative on Trade and Employment (ICITE) is a two-year old joint undertaking of ten international organisations. This book brings together some of the results of ICITE's research.
Download or read book Regional Integration and Economic Development written by N. Saavedra-Rivano and published by Springer. This book was released on 2001-09-06 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Regional integration seems to be thriving everywhere, as the examples of the Association of South East Asian Nations (ASEAN), the North Atlantic Free Trade Area (NAFTA) and the Southern Common Market will illustrate. More ambitious schemes, such as Asian Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC), and those for Western hemispheric integration are also underway. How do these trends for integration relate to national development strategies? The contributors to this volume provide new insights into these developments as well as assessing the prospects for further integration.
Download or read book Labor Regulations and Industrial Relations in Indonesia written by Alejandra Cox Edwards and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 48 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Budgetary Institutions and Expenditure Outcomes written by José Edgardo L. Campos and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 68 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book MERCOSUR Report number 3 july december 1997 Subregional Integration Report Series MERCOSUR Informes Subregionales de Integraci n MERCOSUR S rie Informes Subregionais de Integra ao MERCOSUL 3 written by and published by BID-INTAL. This book was released on with total page 81 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Banking reform in transition countries written by Stijn Claessens and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 36 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Open Economies Work Better written by Francis Ng and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on 1996 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Inclusive Global Value Chains Policy Options in Trade and Complementary Areas for GVC Integration by Small and Medium Enterprises and Low Income Developing Countries written by OECD and published by OECD Publishing. This book was released on 2017-04-08 with total page 139 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This joint OECD and World Bank Group report, presented to G20 Trade Ministers in October 2015, focuses on the challenge of making GVCs more “inclusive” by overcoming participation constraints for SMEs and facilitating access for LIDCs.
