Documents et rapports
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Distortions to agricultural incentives in Mexico (Vol. 1 of 2) : Main report (anglais)
This chapter estimates indicators of direct and indirect intervention by the Mexican government in agriculture over the period 1979 to 2005. To put the estimates in context, authors describe the main characteristics...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 55982 Date du document: 1 décembre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Soloaga,Isidro,Lara Ibarra,Gabriel
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Distortions to agricultural incentives in Mexico (Vol. 2 of 2) : National spreadsheet for agricultural distortions (anglais)
This chapter estimates indicators of direct and indirect intervention by the Mexican government in agriculture over the period 1979 to 2005. To put the estimates in context, authors describe the main characteristics...
Type de document: Document de travail (série numérotée) Numéro du rapport: 55982 Date du document: 1 décembre 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Soloaga,Isidro,Lara Ibarra,Gabriel
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The growth of China and India in world trade : opportunity or threat for Latin America and the Caribbean? (anglais)
This paper studies the relationship between the growth of China and India in world merchandise trade and Latin American and Caribbean commercial flows from two perspectives. First, the authors focus on...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS4320 Date du document: 1 août 2007 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lederman,Daniel,Olarreaga,Marcelo,Soloaga,Isidro
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The growth of China and India in world markets : opportunity or threat for Latin American exporters? (anglais)
This paper explores whether the rapid growth of China and India in world markets is a threat or an opportunity to Latin America and Caribbean (LAC) exporters. First, the authors focus on the opportunity...
Type de document: Document de travail Numéro du rapport: 66620 Date du document: 1 août 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Lederman,Daniel,Olarreaga,Marcelo,Soloaga,Isidro
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Moving forward faster : trade facilitation reform and Mexican competitiveness (anglais)
Improved competitiveness is at the top of the agenda for Mexico as it moves to leverage economic progress made over the past decade. The authors evaluate the impact of changes in trade facilitation measures...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS3953 Date du document: 1 juin 2006 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Mejia, Alejandro,Soloaga,Isidro,Wilson,John S.
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A firm's-eye view of commercial policy and fiscal reforms in Cameroon (anglais)
After decades of high trade restrictions, fiscal distortions, and currency overvaluation, Cameroon implemented important commercial and fiscal policy reforms in 1994. Almost simultaneously, a major devaluation...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 77397 Date du document: 1 septembre 2002 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Gauthier,Bernard P.,Soloaga,Isidro,Tybout,James R.
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Trade reform and household welfare : the case of Mexico (anglais)
The authors use a two-step, computationally simple procedure to analyze the effects of Mexico's potentially unilateral tariff liberalization. First, they use a computable general equilibrium model provided...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2667 Date du document: 31 août 2001 Auteur: Ianchovichina,Elena,Nicita,Alessandro,Soloaga,Isidro
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Weightless machines and costless knowledge - an empirical analysis of trade and technology diffusion (anglais)
The authors examine the impact on productivity of technologies imported by a sample of developing, and transition economies in Central and Easter Europe, and the Southern Mediterranean - economies becoming...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2598 Date du document: 31 mai 2001 Auteur: Navaretti,Giorgio Barba,Soloaga,Isidro
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The treatment of non-essential inputs in a Cobb-Douglas technology : an application to Mexican rural household-level data (anglais)
The standard approach for fitting a Cobb-Douglas production function to micro data with zero values is to replace those values with "sufficiently small" numbers to facilitate the logarithmic transformation...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2499 Date du document: 31 décembre 2000 Auteur: Soloaga,Isidro
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A firm's-eye view of policy and fiscal reforms in Cameroon (anglais)
After decades of heavy trade restrictions, fiscal distortions, and currency overvaluation, Cameroon implemented important commercial and fiscal policy reforms. Almost simultaneously, a major CFA devaluation...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2442 Date du document: 30 septembre 2000 Auteur: Gauthier,Bernard P.,Soloaga,Isidro,Tybout,James R.
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The World Bank economic review 14 (1) (anglais)
International knowledge flows and economic performance - a review of the evidence; by Giorgio Barba Navaretti and David G. Tarr. Do trade patterns and technology flows affect productivity growth? By Wolfgang...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 20868 Date du document: 31 janvier 2000 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Bourguignon,Alain Jean-Francois,Zable,Ilyse,Navaretti,Giorgio Barba,Tarr, David G.,Keller,Wolfgang,Djankov,Simeon,Hoekman,Bernard M.,Aw-Roberts,Bee Yan,Sukkyun Chung,Roberts,Mark John,Soloaga,Isidro,Takacs,Wendy E.,Gisselquist,David P.,Grether,Jean-Marie,BIGMAN, DAVID,Fofack,Hippolyte L.,Hentschel,Jesko S.,Lanjouw, Jean Olson,Lanjouw,Peter F.,Poggi,Javier M.,Dercon,Stefan,Lambotte, Michel
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What's behind MERCOSUR's common external tariff? (anglais)
The theoretical literature on trade follows two different approaches to explaining the endogenous formation of customs unions: 1) The terms-of-trade approach, in which integrating partners are willing...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2231 Date du document: 30 novembre 1999 Auteur: Olarreaga,Marcelo,Soloaga,Isidro,Winters,L. Alan
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How has regionalism in the 1990s affected trade? (anglais)
The authors apply a gravity model to data on annual non-fuel imports for 58 countries for the years 1980-96, to quantify the effects on trade of recently created or revamped preferential trade agreements...
Type de document: Document de travail de recherche sur les politiques Numéro du rapport: WPS2156 Date du document: 31 août 1999 Auteur: Winters,L. Alan,Soloaga,Isidro
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The World Bank economic review 12(2) (anglais)
Dynamics and politics in regional integration arrangements: an introduction, by Maurice Schiff and L. Alan Winters. Returns to regionalism: an analysis of nontraditional gains from regional trade agreements...
Type de document: Publication Numéro du rapport: 18484 Date du document: 31 mai 1998 Auteur: Schiff,Maurice,Winters,L. Alan,Fernandez, Raquel,Portes,Jonathan D.,Puga, Diego,Venables,Anthony J.,Vamvakidis,Athanasios,Olarreaga,Marcelo,Soloaga,Isidro,Waelbroeck,Jean
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Endogenous tariff formation : case of Mercosur (anglais)
Mercosur appears as an interesting case study for analyzing the determinants of exceptions in regional trade agreements. Its member countries Argentina, Brazil, Paraguay, and Uruguay intended to make Mercosur...
Type de document: Article de revue Numéro du rapport: 77269 Date du document: 1 mai 1998 Mode de publication: Disclosed Auteur: Olarreaga,Marcelo,Soloaga,Isidro