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...
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...
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...
This report, on the regional analytical work, deals specifically with studies on regional economic integration and trade facilitation. There are two reasons for this concentration: 1) the predominance...
Beginning in the late 1980s, Argentina implemented a series of reforms that were revolutionary in speed and scope, including trade liberalization. After the implementation of these policies, a record number...
The footwear case provides an example of the complexities of World Trade Organization (WTO) rules on the use of safeguards, and of the interaction of multilateral and regional processes of liberalization...
Contents: Development news. Toward a pro - poor trade agenda. Trade reform for economic growth and poverty reduction. Mainstreaming trade for poverty alleviation - A Cambodian experience. Farm fallacies...
On December 10, 2001 the U.S. Department of Commerce (DOC) imposed steep antidumping duties against honey imports from Argentina and China ranging from 32.6 percent to 183.8 percent, and a countervailing...
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...
This is a statement by Julio J. Nogues at the Board meeting of March 17, 1998 concerning the Country Assistance Strategy for Argentina.
This is a statement by Julio Nogues at the Board meeting of December 18, 1997 concerning the Country Assistance Strategy for Mozambique.
This is a statement by Julio J. Nogues at the Board meeting of November 6, 1997 concerning the Country Assistance Strategy for Colombia.
This is a statement by Julio J. Nogues at the Board meeting of June 12, 1997 concerning the Country Assistance Strategy for Brazil.
This is a statement by Julio J. Nogues at the Board meeting of May 15, 1997 concerning the Country Assistance Strategy for Argentina.
This paper offers a discussion to the question of why there are pressures on developing countries for introducing and/or reinforcing patent protection to pharmaceutical drugs. Patent protection is an important...
The idea behind patent policies is to increase the output of commercially useful innovations by creating a transitory propertyy right that allows the inventor to appropriate part of the returns from his...
This paper develops a framework for analyzing the economic costs and benefits of unilateral and multilateral trade liberalization strategies. The interest in this topic is sparked by the apparent dilemma...
In the early 1980s, faced with a mounting debt crisis, most highly indebted developing countries increased trade barriers to save foreign exchange, but in the last three to four years, they have reversed...
Twenty years ago, it ws believed that export subsidies would produce more diversification and better export performance. This has not happened. In most cases, export subsidies were not supported by more...
The range and number of cases of administered protection in the 1980s suggests that it has begun to play an important role in shaping international trade flows. As most of such cases are brought by the...