Agricultural Trade Policy Reforms and Trade Liberalisation in the Mediterranean Basin

Agricultural Trade Policy Reforms and Trade Liberalisation in the Mediterranean Basin
Author: Aikaterini Kavallari
Publisher: Peter Lang
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2009
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9783631592038

Bilateral and multilateral trade agreements have been gaining attention and relevance in recent years. For the countries around the Mediterranean basin the most important regional trade agreements involved are the Euro-Med Agreements, which influence their trade flows as they aim to promote regional integration. Based on the theory of applied welfare economics, this study analyses empirically the impacts of different policy scenarios on the agricultural sector of Mediterranean countries by using an extended and modified version of the trade policy model AGRISIM. The results show that trade liberalisation, either multilateral or bilateral, would be beneficial for the Mediterranean agricultural markets due to positive welfare effects and should be considered by policy makers.

Applied Trade Policy Modeling In 16 Countries: Insights And Impacts From World Bank Cge Based Projects

Applied Trade Policy Modeling In 16 Countries: Insights And Impacts From World Bank Cge Based Projects
Author: David G Tarr
Publisher: World Scientific
Total Pages: 548
Release: 2014-04-22
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9814551449

This book focuses on the World Bank projects, led by the author, based on computable general equilibrium models of international trade policy. The chapters show an unusual combination of policy relevance, advice and impact, with academic rigor and international trade theory insights. The author discusses some of the policy contexts for the requests from developing and transition countries to the World Bank, the key trade theory or policy insights, policy recommendations and conclusions, and the policy impacts.

Trade Policies for Development and Transition

Trade Policies for Development and Transition
Author: David G Tarr
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Total Pages: 695
Release: 2016-12-29
Genre: Commercial policy
ISBN: 9813108444

The author has virtually incomparable experience in both providing trade policy advice to more than 25 countries on behalf of the World Bank and also publishing quality journal articles in most of those cases. In this volume, he focuses on his work on: (i) trade policies for countries making the transition from planned to market economies; (ii) his trade policy guideline papers for the World Bank on trade policies for poverty alleviation, uniform tariff policy, adjustment costs of trade liberalization, exchange rate overvaluation, globalization and technology transfer and rules of thumb on regional trade policies; (iii) multilateral, dynamic and environmental issues in trade policy using computable general equilibrium models; (iv) trade policy of the United States in the auto and steel industries; and (v) mathematical methods for modeling. The papers show an unusual combination of policy relevance, advice and impact, with rigor and international trade theory insights. The papers in this volume have appeared in many of the economics profession's more prestigious journals, including Econometrica, Review of Economic Studies, Quarterly Journal of Economics, Economic Journal, the Journal of International Economics, International Economic Review, European Economic Review, Canadian Journal of Economics, Economic Inquiry, the Journal of Comparative Economic, Review of International Economics, World Economy, the Southern Economic Journal, the World Bank Economic Review, the Japanese Economic Review and the Latin American Journal of Economics. In this book, the author elaborates on the articles by discussing some of the policy contexts for the requests for the work from developing and transition countries to the World Bank, the key trade theory or policy insights, policy recommendations and conclusions and the policy impacts.

Can Communist Economies Transform Incrementally?

Can Communist Economies Transform Incrementally?
Author: Alan H. Gelb
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 55
Release: 1993
Genre: China
ISBN:

How does China's approach to reform -- incrementally removing constraints on market behavior -- square with the opposing "big bang" thesis that partial reform is probably worse than no reform because it leaves economic agents constrained neither by plan nor by markets? Are there rational bases for these widely different approaches to fundamental economic change? If so, what is transferable from China?

How Should Sovereign Debtors Restructure Their Debts

How Should Sovereign Debtors Restructure Their Debts
Author: Andrew M. Warner
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1993
Genre: Debt relief
ISBN:

The presumption that fixed- rate debt is, in general, less risky than flexible- rate debt is historically inaccurate. In some common circumstances, flexible- rate borrowing actually reduces net risk -- whether debt service payments are linked to nominal rates or to inflation in industrial countries.

The Enterprise Sector and Emergence of the Polish Fiscal Crisis, 1990-91

The Enterprise Sector and Emergence of the Polish Fiscal Crisis, 1990-91
Author: Mark E. Schaffer
Publisher: World Bank Publications
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1993
Genre: Budget
ISBN:

Increasing tax revenues from the enterprise sector alone will not solve Poland's budget crisis. As the state sector shrinks and the private sector grows, the tax net will get increasingly leaky. The budgetary problem could be ameliorated by controlling social security expenses and possibly by abolishing amortization deductions for state- owned enterprises.

Ibss: Economics: 1995

Ibss: Economics: 1995
Author: Compiled by the British Library of Political and Economic Science at the London School of Economics
Publisher: Psychology Press
Total Pages: 680
Release: 1996
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780415152150

The IBSS is the essential tool for librarians, university departments, research institutions and any public or private institutions whose work requires access to up-to-date and comprehensive knowledge of the social sciences.