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TRADE LIBERALIZATION AND COMPENSATION* [PDF]

open access: possibleInternational Economic Review, 2006
Liberalization harms some groups while generating aggregate benefits. We consider various labor market policies that might be used to compensate those who lose from freer trade. Our goal is to find the policy that compensates each group of losers at the lowest cost to the economy. We argue that wage subsidies should be used to compensate those who bear
Carl Davidson, Steven Matusz
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Trade sanctions and green trade liberalization [PDF]

open access: possibleEnvironment and Development Economics, 2010
ABSTRACTThis paper studies the impact of a World Trade Organization withdrawal of trade concessions against countries that fail to respect globally recognized environmental standards. We show that a punishing tariff can be effective when environmental and trade policies are endogenous.
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Issues in Trade Liberalization

1988
Almost all governments in the world intervene in the determination of agricultural production and prices. As a consequence, international trade in agricultural products is affected. This is not a new phenomenon, as governments have done so from very early times for various reasons, such as to safeguard adequate food supplies, to extract resources from ...
Parikh, K.S.   +3 more
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Aid for Trade and the Liberalization of Trade

SSRN Electronic Journal, 2011
The Aid for Trade (AfT) initiative has gained much popularity since its launch at the World Trade Organization (WTO)'s Ministerial Conference in 2005, and there are ongoing discussions on its effectiveness and potential to improve the integration of developing countries (DCs) into the world economy.
Georg Koopmann, Ruth Hoekstra
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Trade Liberalization And Trade Preferences

2009
Trade liberalization is arguably a major issue in the conduct of commercial policy. As a component of it, the relationship between universal, multilateral trade liberalization and the conclusion of preferential trade agreements — that is, a process of liberalization which discriminates between trading partners — has been a focus of analysis and debate.
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