Succeeding with Trade Reforms

Succeeding with Trade Reforms
Author: Jean-Jacques Hallaert
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2013
Genre: Developing countries
ISBN: 9789279294785

Succeeding with Trade Reforms: The Role of Aid for Trade highlights the potential of aid for trade to boost economic growth and reduce poverty, while discussing the various reasons why it may not be realised. In so doing, this book draws lessons for the design of aid-for-trade projects and programmes and for increasing their effectiveness. Building on this analysis, the book also quantifies the binding constraints to trade in developing countries and the importance of complementary and compatible policies (such as education, governance, business environment and macroeconomic stability) to maximise the impact of trade reforms on trade and economic growth.

Succeeding with Trade Reforms

Succeeding with Trade Reforms
Author:
Publisher:
Total Pages: 135
Release: 2013
Genre: Developing countries
ISBN: 9789279294778

Succeeding with Trade Reforms: The Role of Aid for Trade highlights the potential of aid for trade to boost economic growth and reduce poverty, while discussing the various reasons why it may not be realised. In so doing, this book draws lessons for the design of aid-for-trade projects and programmes and for increasing their effectiveness. Building on this analysis, the book also quantifies the binding constraints to trade in developing countries and the importance of complementary and compatible policies (such as education, governance, business environment and macroeconomic stability) to maximise the impact of trade reforms on trade and economic growth.

Market-Oriented Reform of Foreign Trade in Planned Economies

Market-Oriented Reform of Foreign Trade in Planned Economies
Author: International Monetary Fund
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 22
Release: 1990-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451981139

This paper reviews the main features of market-oriented foreign trade reforms in planned economies. It considers reform initiatives aimed at expanding enterprise autonomy and breaking up the state monopoly of foreign trade, modifying the exchange rate system, and reforming the domestic price structure and ultimately the price system. The study emphasizes that the success of foreign trade reform, and therefore of a trade policy aimed at fundamental integration of planned economies into the world economic system, ultimately depends as well on the successful implementation of compatible reforms in the domestic economy as a whole.

Trade Reforms of Uncertain Duration and Real Uncertainty

Trade Reforms of Uncertain Duration and Real Uncertainty
Author: Mr.Guillermo Calvo
Publisher: International Monetary Fund
Total Pages: 42
Release: 1994-04-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 1451974272

This paper examines trade reforms of uncertain duration undertaken in economies subject to real foreign and domestic shocks. These reforms induce consumption and import booms regardless of whether they succeed or fail and of the degree of intertemporal elasticity of substitution. If tariff revenue is rebated, a recession follows the boom, but without rebates a boom or a recession may follow depending on the outcome of the reform. Consumption fluctuations reflect imperfect credibility and real shocks, and the credibility component depends on the mean and risk of real asset returns. Thus, observed booms are a noisy signal of imperfect credibility. Quantitatively, lack of credibility produces sizable consumption cycles, but generally smaller than those induced by real disturbances.

National Trade Policy for Export Success

National Trade Policy for Export Success
Author:
Publisher: UN
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2011
Genre: Political Science
ISBN: 9789291374021

This book outlines how trade policy reform can reduce business costs for production and logistics to improve competitiveness of companies and industry sectors. It provides business associations with a valuable tool to assess and influence trade policy and related regulations using cases and examples of policy, legal and regulatory changes (both positive and negative) from around the world. It weighs the benefits and costs of trade policy options, which is relevant to both business associations and other stakeholders engaging in advocacy campaigns on trade policy issues, as well as to government policymakers endeavouring to understand the business implications of their policies. Above all, this book promotes a culture of informed public-private dialogue, which is an essential component of the democratic process of policy formulation.

Trade Reform and External Adjustment

Trade Reform and External Adjustment
Author: Alan Roe
Publisher:
Total Pages: 40
Release: 1989
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN:

"This document is one of a series reporting on policy seminars organized by the Economic Development Institute of the World Bank" -- foreword.