Documents et rapports
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Sustaining trade reform : institutional lessons from Peru and Argentina (anglais)
This paper examines trade policies in Peru and Argentina since the reforms of the 1990s. Peru provides a valuable example of sustaining reform. Leaders have used negotiations and other international instruments...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS6610 Date du document: 1 septembre 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Baracat,Elias Antonio,Finger,Joseph Michael,Leon Thorne,Raul Matias,Nogues,Julio
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Sustaining trade reform : institutional lessons from Argentina and Peru (anglais)
Trade reform in Latin America in the 1980s and 1990s was in significant part a reform of policy-making institutions. The institutions that existed when the reforms began had been created in response to...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 79618 Date du document: 1 janvier 2013 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Baracat,Elias Antonio,Finger,Joseph Michael,Nogues,Julio,Leon Thorne,Raul Matias
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A special safeguard mechanism for agricultural imports and the management of reform (anglais)
The record of traditional safeguard provisions of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade and the World Trade Organization provides useful information about how a special agricultural safeguard might...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4927 Date du document: 1 mai 2009 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Finger,Joseph Michael
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Safeguards and antidumping in Latin American trade liberalization (anglais)
The binding of tariff rates and adoption of the General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization-sanctioned safeguards and antidumping mechanisms provided the basis to remove a multitude...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4680 Date du document: 1 juillet 2008 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Finger,Joseph Michael,Nogues,Julio
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Implementing a WTO agreement on trade facilitation : what makes sense ? (anglais)
Contrary to the prevailing view that the Doha negotiations have achieved little, the authors find that on trade facilitation much progress has been made. This is particularly true in regard to action by...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3971 Date du document: 1 août 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Finger,Joseph Michael,Wilson,John S.
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Poor people's knowledge : helping poor people to earn from their knowledge (anglais)
How can we help poor people to earn more from their knowledge rather than from their sweat and muscle? This paper draws lessons from projects intended to promote and protect the innovation, knowledge...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3205 Date du document: 29 janvier 2004 Auteur: Finger,Joseph Michael
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Poor people's knowledge : Promoting intellectual property in developing countries (anglais)
This book aims to expand the international discourse by: Calling attention to a broader range of knowledge that has commercial potential in developing countries. Bringing an economic dimension into the...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 28410 Date du document: 1 novembre 2003 Auteur: Finger,Joseph Michael,Schuler,Philip M.
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The unbalanced Ururguay Round outcome : the new areas in future WTO negotiations (anglais)
The Uruguay Round involved a grand North-South bargain: The North reduced import barriers, particularly in textiles and agriculture. The South adopted new domestic regulations in such areas as services...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2732 Date du document: 31 décembre 2001 Auteur: Finger,Joseph Michael,Nogues,Julio
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South Africa - A review of trade policies (anglais)
This report is an attempt to provide an overview of South Africa's trade regime to assess whether it is conducive to sustaining a prolonged export drive. Stagnation of output and rising unemployment have...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 12969 Date du document: 31 août 1993 Auteur: Belli,Pedro,Finger,Joseph Michael,Ballivian, Amparo,AFR
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The World Bank research observer 7 (2) (anglais)
Dumping and antidumping: the rhetoric and the reality of protection in industrial countries. Policy instruments for pollution control in developing countries. A survey of the costs of world sugar policies...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 17521 Date du document: 31 juillet 1992 Auteur: Finger,Joseph Michael,Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern,Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.,Borrell,Brent William,Duncan,Ronald C.,Mitra,Pradeep K.,McLure, Charles E., Jr.,Tait, Alan A.
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The origins and evolution of antidumping regulation (anglais)
Antidumping has about it the aura of a special measure to undo a special problem. Within this view, the explosion of antidumping actions in the 1980s was simply a good thing carried too far: the appropriate...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS783 Date du document: 31 octobre 1991 Auteur: Finger,Joseph Michael
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The meaning of "unfair" in US import policy (anglais)
This paper concludes that transparency, openness, and objectivity, are important parts of the American ideal of rule of law. Yet these procedural refinements seem to contribute more to the problem than...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS745 Date du document: 31 août 1991 Auteur: Finger,Joseph Michael
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The GATT as international discipline over trade restrictions : a public choice approach (anglais)
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) was built on a mercantilist sense of economic welfare and a mercantilist sense that domestic producers had a higher claim than foreign producers to the...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS402 Date du document: 31 mars 1990 Auteur: Finger,Joseph Michael
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La Ronda Uruguay - Manual para las Negociaciones Comerciales Multilaterales (français)
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) system is three things: The belief that an open international trading system conveys political and economic advantages to each nation; The international...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 189358 Date du document: 1 février 1989 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Finger,Joseph Michael,Olechowski,Andrzej
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Economists, institutions, and trade restrictions : a review article (anglais)
A review article on the work of "practitioners of contemporary economic analysis of trade restrictions", this report focuses on three questions : a) are there holes in the case of free trade? B) Why are...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS78 Date du document: 30 septembre 1988 Auteur: Finger,Joseph Michael
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The Uruguay Round - A Handbook on the Multilateral Trade Negotiations (anglais)
The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) system is three things: The belief that an open international trading system conveys political and economic advantages to each nation; The international...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 189358 Date du document: 1 novembre 1987 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Finger,Joseph Michael,Olechowski,Andrzej
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The World Bank economic review 1 (4) (anglais)
Introduction. Trade in services and the multilateral trade negotiations. Agriculture in the Uruguay Round: interests of developing countries. GATT law, agricultural trade, and developing countries: lessons...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 17559 Date du document: 30 septembre 1987 Auteur: Anjaria, Shailendra J.,Bhagwati,Jagdish N.,Cable, Vincent,Chong-Hyun Nam,Finger,Joseph Michael,HINDLEY, BRIAN V.,Krueger,Anne O.,Nogues,Julio,Sathirathai, Surakiart,SIAMWALLA, AMMAR,Snape,Richard H.,Valdes, Alberto,Wolf,Martin H.
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Industrial country policy and adjustment to imports from developing countries (anglais)
This essay reviews and interprets recent analyses of the policy of industrial countries in response to increasing imports from developing countries. Industrial country policy has been caught between the...
Type de document: Document de travail des services de la Banque mondiale Numéro du rapport: SWP470 Date du document: 31 juillet 1981 Auteur: Finger,Joseph Michael