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China's Export Growth and the China Safeguard : Threats To the World Trading System?
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Year: 2010 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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Is there evidence from China's pre-WTO accession period that newly imposed U.S. or EU import restrictions deflect Chinese exports to third markets? The authors examine this question by drawing on a newly constructed data set of U.S. and EU product-level import restrictions on Chinese trade imposed between 1992 and 2001 and estimate their impact on Chinese exports to 38 alternative markets. There is no systematic evidence that the import restrictions imposed during this period resulted in Chinese exports surging to such alternate destinations. To the contrary, there is weak evidence of a chilling effect on China's exports to third markets.


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Rules of Origin For Preferential Trading Arrangements : Implications For The ASEAN Free Trade Area of EU And U.S. Experience
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Year: 2006 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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With free trade areas (FTAs) under negotiation between Japan and the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) members and between the Republic of Korea and AFTA members, preferential market access will become more important in Asian regionalism. Protectionist pressures will likely increase through rules of origin, the natural outlet for these pressures. Based on the experience of the European Union and the United States with rules of origin, the authors argue that, should these FTAs follow in the footsteps of the EU and the U.S. and adopt similar rules of origin, trading partners in the region would incur unnecessary costs. Using EU trade under the Generalized System of Preferences with Africa, Caribbean, and Pacific partners, the authors estimate how the use of preferences would likely change if AFTA were to veer away from its current uniform rules of origin requiring a 40 percent local content rate. Depending on the sample used, a 10 percentage point reduction in the local value content requirement is estimated to increase the utilization rate of preferences by between 2.5 and 8.2 percentage points.


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The Global Resort to Antidumping, Safeguards, and other Trade Remedies Amidst the Economic Crisis
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Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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This paper examines newly available data from the World Bank-sponsored Global Antidumping Database tracking the worldwide use of trade remedies such as antidumping, countervailing duties, global safeguards and China-specific safeguards during the current economic crisis. The data indicate a marked increase in WTO members' combined resort to these instruments beginning in 2008 that continued into the first quarter 2009. The use of these import-restricting instruments is increasingly affecting "South-South" trade, id est, developing country importers initiating and imposing new protectionist measures primarily affecting developing country exporters, with a special emphasis on exports from China. However, the collective value of imports in 2007 for the major (G-20) economies that has subsequently come under attack by the use of import-restricting trade remedies during the period of 2008 to early 2009 is likely less than USD 29 billion, or less than 0.45 per cent of these economies' total imports, though there is substantial variation across countries. While the level of trade affected thus far may be small for most of these economies, a first assessment of some of the case-level data identifies a number of ways in which the crisis use of these import-restricting trade remedies may have economically important welfare-distorting effects on economic activity.


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Aid for Trade Facilitation
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Year: 2009 Publisher: Washington, D.C., The World Bank,

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Does foreign aid spent on trade facilitation increase trade flows of developing countries? There is an on-going and high profile discussion of aid-for-trade associated with the Doha negotiations of the World Trade Organization. There continue also questions about how best to achieve the Millennium Development Goals. The analysis in this paper explicitly considers how to target aid most effectively to increase trade - a fundamental question related to the crisis and policy debate over restarting the world trading system. Using detailed data on aid flows from the OECD, the analysis here estimates the responsiveness of trade flows to specific types of foreign aid. The findings indicate that aid directed toward promoting trade enhances the trade performance of recipient countries: a 1 percent increase in aid directed toward trade policy and regulatory reform (amounting to about USD 11.7 million more such aid) could generate an increase in global trade of about USD 818 million. This yields a "rate of return" on every dollar of this type of aid of about USD 697 in additional trade. As the dollar aid flow is relatively small, such targeted aid mitigates concerns about absorptive capacity and real exchange rate appreciation, which may accompany larger disbursements.


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Why Australia prospered : the shifting sources of economic growth
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ISBN: 1283683563 1400845432 9781400845439 0691154678 0691171335 9781283683562 9780691154671 Year: 2013 Publisher: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press

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This book is the first comprehensive account of how Australia attained the world's highest living standards within a few decades of European settlement, and how the nation has sustained an enviable level of income to the present. Why Australia Prospered is a fascinating historical examination of how Australia cultivated and sustained economic growth and success. Beginning with the Aboriginal economy at the end of the eighteenth century, Ian McLean argues that Australia's remarkable prosperity across nearly two centuries was reached and maintained by several shifting factors. These included imperial policies, favorable demographic characteristics, natural resource abundance, institutional adaptability and innovation, and growth-enhancing policy responses to major economic shocks, such as war, depression, and resource discoveries. Natural resource abundance in Australia played a prominent role in some periods and faded during others, but overall, and contrary to the conventional view of economists, it was a blessing rather than a curse. McLean shows that Australia's location was not a hindrance when the international economy was centered in the North Atlantic, and became a positive influence following Asia's modernization. Participation in the world trading system, when it flourished, brought significant benefits, and during the interwar period when it did not, Australia's protection of domestic manufacturing did not significantly stall growth. McLean also considers how the country's notorious origins as a convict settlement positively influenced early productivity levels, and how British imperial policies enhanced prosperity during the colonial period. He looks at Australia's recent resource-based prosperity in historical perspective, and reveals striking elements of continuity that have underpinned the evolution of the country's economy since the nineteenth century.

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Economic development --- Economics. --- Economic theory --- Political economy --- Development, Economic --- Economic growth --- Growth, Economic --- Australia --- New Holland --- Osṭralyah --- Usṭralyah --- Australie --- Avstralii︠a︡ --- Nova Hollandia --- Commonwealth of Australia --- Australiese Gemenebes --- أستراليا --- Usturāliyā --- كومنولث الأسترالي --- Kūmunwālth al-Usturālī --- Аўстралія --- Aŭstralii︠a︡ --- Australija --- Австралийски съюз --- Avstraliĭski sŭi︠u︡z --- Австралийският съюз --- Avstraliĭskii︠a︡t sŭi︠u︡z --- Mancomunitat d'Austràlia --- Awstralya --- Komonwelt sa Awstralya --- Australské společenství --- Australien --- Aŭstralio --- Komunejo de Aŭstralio --- Komunaĵo de Aŭstralio --- Austraalia --- Austraalia Ühendus --- Αυστραλία --- Aystralia --- Κοινοπολιτεία της Αυστραλίας --- Koinopoliteia tēs Aystralias --- אוסטרליה --- קהיליית אוסטרליה --- Ḳehiliyat Osṭralyah --- ʻAukekulelia --- Ausztrália --- Ausztrál Államszövetség --- Ástralía --- Samveldið Ástralía --- Negara Persemakmuran Australia --- Persemakmuran Australia --- Austrālijas Savienība --- Australijos Sandrauga --- Австралија --- Avstralija --- Комонвелтот на Австралија --- Komonveltot na Avstralija --- Државна заедница Австралија --- Državna zaednica Avstralija --- Aostralia --- Komanwel Australia --- Awstralja --- Ahitereiria --- Whakaminenga o Ahitereiria --- Австралия --- Австралийский Союз --- Avstraliĭskiĭ Soi︠u︡z --- Mancomunidad de Australia --- Awstralia --- Cymanwlad Awstralia --- Australian Government --- Government of Australia --- Economic policy --- オーストラリア --- Ōsutoraria --- Economics --- Statics and dynamics (Social sciences) --- Development economics --- Resource curse --- Social sciences --- Economic man --- E-books --- IMPERIALISM -- 325.9 --- 19TH-20TH CENTURY -- 325.9 --- AUSTRALIA -- 325.3 --- PROSPERITY -- 325.3 --- NATURAL RESOURCES -- 325.3 --- GROWTH ENHANCING POLICY -- 325.3 --- IMPERIALISM -- 325.3 --- 19TH-20TH CENTURY -- 325.3 --- GROWTH ENHANCING POLICY -- 325.9 --- Австралийски съюз --- Австралийският съюз --- Австралийский Союз --- Aboriginal economy. --- Aboriginals. --- Asian industrialization. --- Australia. --- Australian colonies. --- Australian economy. --- Australian history. --- Britain. --- British government. --- China. --- European settlement. --- European settlers. --- First World War. --- GDP. --- India. --- Korean War. --- Second World War. --- agriculture. --- ancient lineage. --- capital flows. --- civilian consumption. --- domestic manufacturing. --- domestic savings. --- drought. --- economic fortunes. --- economic growth. --- economic miracles. --- economic prosperity. --- energy sources. --- farming. --- financial outlays. --- foreign investment. --- free immigrants. --- gold rushes. --- growth economics. --- import process. --- income level. --- industrialization. --- institutional innovation. --- international economic order. --- labor force. --- living standards. --- manufacturing. --- market-oriented approach. --- mineral production. --- mining. --- modernization. --- national prosperity. --- pastoral development. --- per capita income. --- policy reforms. --- political institutions. --- poor countries. --- postwar economic environment. --- poverty. --- productivity. --- prosperity. --- rich economies. --- rich economy. --- shifting basis. --- war outbreak. --- wool boom. --- wool industry. --- world depression. --- world energy. --- world trading system. --- History of Oceania with Australia --- anno 1800-1999 --- anno 1700-1799

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