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... of Switzerland, using average overall trade weights that take into account third-market effect... Swiss franc steadily appreciates in real terms against the euro, it does not show a clear trend a...Terms of trade shocks can also affect real exchange rates. Oil price flu...
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...ACTA Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement . Accordo plurilaterale di lotta contro... rapporti di scambio reali, i cosiddetti «terms of trade». Nel caso della Svizzera, povera di mat.... L'Exogeneous Shocks Facility (ESF), introdotto dal FMI nel 2005, è un...
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There is nearly unanimous consent among WTO practitioners and scholars that the remedy of tariff compensation is legally superior, economically more efficient and socially more beneficial than retaliatory suspension of tariff concessions (tariff retaliation). This article argues in favour of a revitalization of tariff compensation. However, under the current regime compensation is a thoroughly unattractive policy instrument for decision makers having to temporarily opt out of a WTO Agreement in reaction to domestic shocks. Hence, tariff compensation is vastly underused. We examine reasons for the relative unattractiveness of this policy instrument and propose a substantial reform agenda of the WTO agreements and the dispute settlement system, so as to make compensation a policy tool of ...
...PASCAL LAMY (then EU Commissioner for Trade) "Hymn to Compliance".1. 1 Introduction. In this p... that are unable to improve on their terms of trade through a border measure, simply "shoot t...
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The global financial crisis is not like a tsunami, giant wave sweeping everything in its path, but rather like a series of smaller waves with their impact accumulating over longer periods. Some developing countries will be impacted much more severely than others, but nobody will remain unaffected. The trade and investment impact will accumulate, with reduced remittances and fewer workers migrating. According to the IIF, the level of private capital likely to be invested in developing countries in 2009 will be down by 82%, relative to 2007. Two key variables in the official assistance scenario for developing countries are the flow of overseas development assistance and the availability of International Monetary Fund credits. Despite G-20 measures and fiscal stimulus across a number of ma...
...The different types of trade shocks developing countries are experiencing may be disti... diversified both geographically and in terms of the mix of product and services in their export...
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...'s food systems and their vulnerability to shocks." (FAO 2008b) Over the 2 years leading up to sprin...In purely economic terms, it would only make sense to shift agricultural pr...
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... appear very attractive in international terms." . A future economic powerhouse? . The emergence ... and has been subjected to external shocks such as the World Trade Centre attacks and the 200...
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...ACTA Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement . Abkommen zur Bekämpfung von Fälschu..., der sogenannten «terms of trade», geführt. Dies ist etwa für die rohs... . Die Exogeneous Shocks Facility (ESF) wurde 2005 vom IWF eingeführt, um ...
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The study tries to answer the following questions: Will exposure to world agricultural prices generate more poverty or less? To what extent will households be affected by changes in agricultural trade polices? Do multilateral agricultural liberalization matter more than bilateral changes? Results of simulations using a computable general equilibrium (CGE) model linked to household survey data suggest that trade liberalization has only modest effects on the level of GDP, but it has a substantial effect in reducing poverty. Moreover, the combined effects of global and domestic liberalization are more pro-poor than the effect of domestic liberalization alone. [PUB ABSTRACT]
...Trade policies and external shocks are also seen as a way of tackling poverty given t..., but rather to describe in non-mathematical terms its main hypotheses and the developments introduce...
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In an integrated global economy, specialisation in trade is an increasingly prominent strategy. A labor-abundant, resource-rich economy like Indonesia faces stiff competition in labor-intensive manufactures; meanwhile, rapid growth in demand for resources from China and India exposes it to the 'curse' of resource wealth. This diminishes prospects for more diversified growth based on renewable resources like human capital. Using an international panel data set we explore the influence of resource wealth, foreign direct investment and human capital on the share of skill-intensive products in exports. FDI and human capital increase this share; resource wealth diminishes it. We use the results to compare Indonesia with Thailand and Malaysia. Indonesia's reliance on skill-intensive export...
... heightening vulnerability to global market shocks. In world markets, commodity prices fluctuate much... rather than converging on a steady state in terms of per capita income. This idea is typically artic...
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...ACTA Anti-Counterfeiting Trade Agreement . Accord plurilatéral de lutte contre l... des termes réels de l'échange (terms of trade). C'est par exemple le cas de la Suisse, ... contre les chocs exogènes (Exogeneous Shocks Facility, facilité PCE) fournit un soutien aux pa...