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  • 1
    Online Resource
    Online Resource
    Washington :World Bank Group,
    UID:
    almahu_9949191557902882
    Format: 1 online resource (pages cm)
    ISBN: 9781464815393
    Series Statement: World Bank e-Library.
    Content: Deep trade agreements matter for economic development. The rules embedded in DTAs, along with the multilateral trade rules and other elements of international economic law influence how countries transact, invest, work, and, ultimately, develop. Trade and investment regimes determine the extent of economic integration, competition rules affect economic efficiency, intellectual property rights matter for innovation, environmental and labor rules contribute to social and environmental outcomes. It is, therefore, vital that rules and commitments in DTAs are informed by evidence and shaped more by development priorities than by international power dynamics or domestic politics. This Handbook presents detailed data on the content of the eighteen policy areas most frequently covered in PTAs, focusing on the stated objectives, substantive commitments, and other aspects such as transparency, procedures and enforcement. In terms of the coverage of policy areas and the granularity of information within each area, this is the most comprehensive effort up to date. Each chapter, authored by a leading expert in his or her field, explains in detail the methodology used to collect the information and provides a first look at the evidence in each policy area--
    Additional Edition: Print Version: ISBN 9781464815393
    Language: English
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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  • 2
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048524466
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (279 Seiten)
    Edition: 1st ed
    ISBN: 9781464818424
    Note: Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- About the Editors and Contributors -- Abbreviations -- OVERVIEW -- Introduction -- Latin America and the Caribbean's poor international integration and limited participation in GVCs have contributed to its low economic growth over the past decade -- Although Latin American and Caribbean countries increasingly participate in PTAs, the content and depth of these agreements are uneven -- DTAs present an avenue for promoting trade and boosting GVC integration and upgrading, thus contributing to improved economic performance -- Four areas of deep integration-trade facilitation, regulatory cooperation, services, and state support-are priorities to improve Latin American and Caribbean countries' GVC participation and upgrading -- Notes -- References -- 1 TRADE AND GVC INTEGRATION IN LATIN AMERICA AND THE CARIBBEAN -- Key messages -- Introduction -- Trade integration in Latin America and the Caribbean -- GVC integration in Latin America and the Caribbean -- The main source and destination regions for Latin American and Caribbean trade -- What determines GVC participation? -- Annex 1A: Supplementary figures and tables -- Notes -- References -- 2 DEEP TRADE AGREEMENTS: PROMOTING TRADE AND GVC INTEGRATION -- Key messages -- Introduction -- The rising trend in preferential trade agreements -- Patterns of deep integration in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Economic impact of deep trade agreements in Latin America and the Caribbean -- DTA content and GVC integration in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Annex 2A: Supplementary tables and figures -- Notes -- References -- 3 TRADE FACILITATION: SIMPLIFYING AND HARMONIZING PROCEDURES -- Key messages -- Introduction -- The benefits of trade facilitation -- Regional context , Trade facilitation through DTAs -- Impact of trade facilitation provisions on GVCs: An econometric analysis -- Implementation challenges and case study -- Conclusion and policy recommendations -- Annex 3A: Supplementary tables -- Annex 3B: Task facilitation provisions in deep trade agreements: Detailed questions -- Notes -- References -- 4 REGULATORY COOPERATION: REDUCING THE TRADE COSTS OF NONTARIFF MEASURES -- Key messages -- Introduction -- SPS and TBT measures: The role of PTAs in promoting regulatory convergence -- Nontariff measures in Latin America and the Caribbean -- SPS and TBT measures in PTAs: Integration patterns in Latin America and the Caribbean -- The impacts on trade and GVCs of integrating SPS and TBT provisions -- Implementing deep regulatory cooperation in selected Latin American and Caribbean PTAs -- Conclusion -- Annex 4A: A classification of nontariff measures -- Annex 4B: SPS and TBT notifications to the World Trade Organization -- Annex 4C: SPS and TBT provisions in PTAs -- Annex 4D: Aggregate impacts on bilateral trade of SPS and TBT provisions in PTAs -- Annex 4E: Impacts of SPS and TBT provisions in PTAs on firm-level bilateral exports -- Notes -- References -- 5 SERVICES TRADE: REDUCING SKILL AND TECHNOLOGY CONSTRAINTS -- Key messages -- Introduction -- The complexity of services trade agreements -- Services in the evolving global economy -- Services in Latin American and Caribbean GVCs -- Latin American and Caribbean deep trade agreements and services in GVCs -- Conclusion and policy implications -- Notes -- References -- 6 STATE SUPPORT: IMPROVING ECONOMIC GOVERNANCE -- Key messages -- Introduction -- Understanding the impact of state support -- Subsidies, SOEs, and competition in Latin America and the Caribbean -- Subsidy, SOE, and competition policy regulations in trade agreements , Leveraging PTAs to improve policy transparency -- Cooperation on behind-the-border regulation in PTAs -- Private sector engagement: GVC partnerships as inputs and complements to PTA regulations -- Conclusion -- Annex 6A: Supplementary figures -- Notes -- References -- 7 LEVERAGING DEEP TRADE AGREEMENTS TO PROMOTE GVC INTEGRATION -- Introduction -- An agenda of priorities for reform -- Boxes -- 1.1 Export growth in relation to GVC participation during the COVID-19 pandemic -- 2.1 Preferential tariff liberalization in Latin America and the Caribbean -- 3.1 The Costa Rica-El Salvador ferry project -- 3.2 Empirical specification for the impact of PTA trade facilitation provisions on trade -- 3.3 The single-document FYDUCA process -- 4.1 Nontariff measures in Colombia -- 4.2 The impact on aggregate trade of SPS measures and TBT provisions in PTAs -- 4.3 Eliminating technical obstacles to trade for cosmetic products in the Pacific Alliance -- 4.4 Factors that can help effectively advance regulatory cooperation in PTAs -- 5.1 Digital services in PTAs -- 5.2 Specific commitments and the "water": Evidence from Brazil -- Figures -- O.1 Trade and GDP growth, Latin America and the Caribbean and comparator regions, 2000-18 -- O.2 Latin American and Caribbean countries typically sign deeper agreements with extraregional partners and shallower agreements with intraregional partners, selected years -- O.3 GVC-related trade is higher for countries with deeper agreements -- 1.1 Latin American and Caribbean trade and GDP growth-below that of comparator regions, 2000-18 -- 1.2 Trade in goods and services as a percentage of GDP in Latin America and the Caribbean and comparator regions, 2018 -- 1.3 Export activity in relation to economic and demographic measures, in selected countries of Latin America and the Caribbean and comparator regions, annual averages , 1.4 Density of exporters in selected countries of Latin America and the Caribbean and comparator regions -- 1.5 Commodities, food, and manufactures as a share of goods exports in Latin America and the Caribbean and comparator regions, 2018 -- 1.6 Commodities versus manufactures as a share of goods exports and product concentration in selected countries, Latin America and the Caribbean and comparator regions, 2018 -- 1.7 Shares of selected sectors in total goods exports, Latin America and the Caribbean and comparator regions, 2018 -- 1.8 Shares of high-tech goods and nontravel services in exports, by selected comparator regions and GVC group -- 1.9 Forward and backward GVC participation, by region and GVC taxonomy group, 2000 versus 2015 -- 1.10 Backward and forward GVC participation in Latin America and the Caribbean and comparator regions, by country, 2015 -- 1.11 Backward and forward GVC participation in Latin America and the Caribbean and selected comparator regions, by sector, 2015 -- 1.12 Decomposition of sectoral contributions to backward and forward GVC participation in Latin America and the Caribbean and comparator regions, 2015 -- 1.13 Share of exporters and average size of GVC participating firms in selected Latin America and Caribbean and comparator countries -- 1.14 Average number of products and destinations of GVC participating firms relative to exporter-only firms in selected Latin American and Caribbean and comparator countries -- B1.1.1 Growth of exports to selected major markets in January-June 2020 in relation to forward and backward GVC participation of countries in Latin America and the Caribbean and comparator regions -- 1.15 Distribution of total imported inputs in exports, by source region, 2005 versus 2015 , 1.16 Sources of imported inputs for GVC participating firms in Latin American and Caribbean countries and selected European and Central Asian countries -- 1.17 Distribution of total domestic value added in exports, by partner region, 2000 versus 2015 -- 1A.1 Exports and imports of goods and services as a share of GDP in Latin America and the Caribbean and comparator regions, by country, 2018 -- 1A.2 Share of top exporters versus GDP per capita in Latin America and the Caribbean and comparator regions, by country -- 1A.3 Export share of high-tech goods versus export sophistication in Latin America and the Caribbean and comparator regions, by country, 2018 -- 1A.4 Decomposition of sectoral contributions to GVC participation in Latin America and the Caribbean, by country, 2015 -- 1A.5 Backward and forward GVC participation in Latin America and the Caribbean and comparator regions, by sector, 2000 -- 2.1 Globally, PTAs accelerated in the 1990s, reaching more than 300 by 2019 -- B2.1.1 Trade-weighted average tariffs in Latin America and the Caribbean, by country, 2018 -- B2.1.2 Trade-weighted average tariffs in Latin America and the Caribbean, by partner location, 2018 -- 2.2 Number and coverage ratios of PTAs in Latin America and the Caribbean, selected years -- 2.3 Intraregional PTAs of Latin American and Caribbean countries tend to be shallower in both essential and complementary provisions than the extraregional PTAs, 2017 -- 2.4 Of all Latin American and Caribbean exports under a PTA in 2017-19, less than a fifth went to a regional partner -- 2.5 Percentage of exported domestic value added going from Latin American and Caribbean countries to PTA partners and nonpartners, 2000 to 2015 -- 2.6 Share of domestic value added exported to PTA partners, by agreement and by member country, 2015 , 2.7 Percentage of GVC firms' imported inputs from PTA partners or nonpartners, by Latin American and Caribbean importing country
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rocha, Nadia Deep Trade Agreements Washington, D. C. : World Bank Publications,c2022 ISBN 9781464818240
    Language: English
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  • 3
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048272618
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Content: Integration with other countries in the region and neighboring regions, particularly East Asia, will allow Pakistan to diversify both its product basket and markets. Finally, full normalization of trade relations with India would allow Pakistan to benefit from India's fast growth and promote complementarities, including valuechain activities and investment potential
    Language: English
    URL: Volltext  (kostenfrei)
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    Online Resource
    Washington, D.C : The World Bank
    UID:
    b3kat_BV048271143
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Content: With further declines in international assistance expected over the coming years, the government of Afghanistan faces a new challenge of enabling new growth drivers. One such driver is trade. Decades of civil war and military occupation that culminated in the fall of the Taliban in 2001, have devastated Afghanistan. High levels of conflict destroyed infrastructure, displaced a significant share of the population, incentivized informal and illicit economic activities, and jeopardized the delivery of public services. Trade could be an important channel for accelerating growth in Afghanistan. A plausible trade-driven growth scenario for Afghanistan should promote economic and export diversification. This report brings new evidence on the opportunities and challenges for development in the areas of trade in goods, trade in services, and transit trade. It also provides recommendations for an appropriate sequencing of policy reforms and strategic infrastructure investment to support potential growth in these sectors. The main findings of this report suggest that government intervention should focus on two complementary areas of competitiveness and connectivity
    Language: English
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    UID:
    b3kat_BV048274569
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (42 Seiten)
    Series Statement: World Bank E-Library Archive
    Content: Using a cross-section of more than 29,000 manufacturing firms in 64 developing and emerging countries from the World Bank's Enterprise Surveys, this paper assesses whether trading firms have a female labor share premium relative to non-trading firms. It focuses on four types of trading firms: exporters, importers, global value chain participants, and foreign firms. The study finds a female labor share premium for all four trading types, controlling for firm output, capital intensity, total factor productivity, and fixed effects. The findings also hold after controlling for differences in relative wages between men and women and excluding traditional export sectors (apparel and electronics) from the sample. The female labor share premium is much higher for production workers compared with non-production workers, implying that women specialize in low-skill production. In line with these findings, the study finds that the female labor share premium for exporters and global value chain participants is highest in low-tech sectors. And female ownership and management expand the female labor share premium for trading firms. Finally, the results suggest that although average wage rates are lower for firms with higher female labor shares, this negative correlation is smaller for trading firms
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Rocha Nadia Trade And Female Labor Participation: Stylized Facts Using A Global Dataset Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2019
    Language: English
    URL: Volltext  (kostenfrei)
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    UID:
    almafu_BV040248250
    Format: 45 S. : , graph. Darst.
    Series Statement: CESifo working paper 3783 : Category 8, Trade policy
    Language: English
    Subjects: Economics
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    Author information: Ruta, Michele 1974-
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  • 7
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    Online Resource
    Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice
    UID:
    gbv_1031643451
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 39 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 8491
    Content: Preferential trade agreements have become deeper over time, often encompassing policy areas that go beyond traditional trade policy, such as investment, competition, and intellectual property rights protection. In the literature, a prominent argument why countries sign "deep" agreements is to promote and facilitate the operation of global value chains. This paper exploits a new data set on the content of trade agreements and data on trade in value added and in parts and components, to quantify the impact of the depth of trade agreements on bilateral cross-border production linkages. The results show that adding a policy area to a trade agreement increases the domestic value added of intermediates (forward global value chain linkages) and the foreign value added of intermediates (backward global value chain linkages) by 0.48 and 0.38 percent, respectively. At the sectoral level, the positive impact of deep trade agreements is higher for higher value-added industries, suggesting that deep agreements help countries to integrate in industries with higher levels of value added. For a larger sample of countries and years, the results confirm that an additional provision in a trade agreement increases bilateral trade in parts and components by 0.3 percent. The content of trade agreements also matters for global value chain integration, but the impact varies by income group. Provisions outside the current mandate of the World Trade Organization (investment and competition policy) drive the effect of trade agreements on North-South trade in parts and components. Provisions under the current World Trade Organization mandate (tariff reduction and customs facilitation) drive the effect of trade agreements on South-South trade in parts and components
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Laget, Edith Deep Trade Agreements and Global Value Chains Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2018
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    URL: Volltext  (Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
    Author information: Ruta, Michele 1974-
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    Online Resource
    Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice
    UID:
    gbv_1040783740
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 19 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 8567
    Content: This paper studies the effects of trade policy uncertainty on the extensive and intensive margins of trade for a sample of 65 exporters at the Harmonized System six-digit level. The paper measures trade policy uncertainty as the gap between binding tariff commitments under trade agreements (multilateral and regional agreements) and applied tariffs-what is also known as tariffs' water. The results show that trade policy uncertainty is an important barrier to exports and its effects are heterogeneous. On average and at the current level of tariff commitments, the paper estimates that the elimination of water, without any change of the applied tariff, would increase the probability of exporting by 6 percent and trade volumes by 1.3 percent. The negative impact of trade policy uncertainty on export participation is higher for countries with low-quality institutions and in the presence of global value chains. For a sample of new acceding countries, the analysis finds that removing water would boost the probability of trading by 50 percent and exports by 16 percent. The paper also estimates that the current system of commitments boosts trade by between 10 and 30 percent, compared with a world where at any moment tariffs could be raised to an arbitrarily high level
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Osnago, Alberto The Heterogeneous Effects of Trade Policy Uncertainty: How Much Do Trade Commitments Boost Trade? Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2018
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    URL: Volltext  (Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
    Author information: Piermartini, Roberta
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  • 9
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    Online Resource
    Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, Development Economics, Development Research Group & Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice
    UID:
    gbv_1027328695
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 34 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 8446
    Content: World trade is increasingly ruled by preferential trade agreements (PTAs), but their precise nature remains relatively opaque. This paper assesses a central dimension of these agreements, the significance of tariff preferences, using a new data set on preferential and non-preferential or Most Favored Nation (MFN) applied tariffs, constructed by the International Trade Center and the World Bank. The data set covers 5,203 products, 199 reporters, and 239 partners, representing approximately 97 percent of world imports in 2016. There are three main findings. First, PTAs have significantly widened the scope of tariff-free trade. Whereas 42 percent of the total value of trade traded free under MFN rates in 2016, PTAs have fully liberalized an additional 28 percent of global trade. Second, the extent of preferential liberalization varies significantly across countries and sectors. Around 70 percent of countries have reduced trade-weighted average preferential tariffs to less than 5 percent, but PTAs have not been able to eliminate the high levels of protection in some low-income countries and in agricultural products, textiles, and footwear. Third, while the average preferential margin for trade covered by PTAs is low because one-fifth of world trade under preferential agreements is already duty free, more than a quarter of world trade is subject to an average preference margin of 7.4 percent. Considering competition from preferential and non-preferential sources, however, only 5.2 percent of global exports benefited from a preferential advantage of over 5 percent and only 3.3 percent of global exports suffered from a preferential disadvantage higher than 5 percent. Furthermore, data for a subsample of importers reveal that not all eligible imports take advantage of preferences, because of impediments such as restrictive rules of origin, and therefore actual preference margins are generally lower than potential margins
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Espitia, Alvaro How Preferential Is Preferential Trade? Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2018
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    URL: Volltext  (Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
    Author information: Mattoo, Aaditya 1961-
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    Online Resource
    Washington, D.C. : World Bank Group, Macroeconomics, Trade and Investment Global Practice, Middle East and North Africa Region, Development Research Group
    UID:
    gbv_1043832998
    Format: 1 Online-Ressource (circa 43 Seiten) , Illustrationen
    Series Statement: Policy research working paper 8614
    Content: This paper studies the impact of transport infrastructure projects of the Belt and Road Initiative on shipment times and trade costs. Based on a new data on completed and planned Belt and Road transport projects, Geographic Information System analysis is used to estimate shipment times before and after the Belt and Road Initiative. Two sets of data are computed to address different research questions: a global database based on an analysis of 1,000 cities in 191 countries and 47 sectors and a regional database that focuses on more granular information (1,818 cities) for Belt and Road economies only. The paper uses sectoral estimates of "value of time" to transform changes in shipment times into changes in ad valorem trade costs at the country-sector level. The findings show that the Belt and Road Initiative will significantly reduce shipment times and trade costs. For the world, the average reduction in shipment time will range between 1.2 and 2.5 percent, leading to reduction of aggregate trade costs between 1.1 and 2.2 percent. For Belt and Road economies, the change in shipment times and trade costs will range between 1.7 and 3.2 percent and 1.5 and 2.8 percent, respectively. Belt and Road economies located along the corridors where projects are built experience the largest gains. Shipment times along these corridors decline by up to 11.9 percent and trade costs by up to 10.2 percent. The paper also shows that these effects are magnified by policy reforms that reduce border delays and improve corridor management
    Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe de Soyres, Francois How Much Will the Belt and Road Initiative Reduce Trade Costs? Washington, D.C : The World Bank, 2018
    Language: English
    Keywords: Graue Literatur
    URL: Volltext  (Deutschlandweit zugänglich)
    Author information: Ruta, Michele 1974-
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