The Costs and Benefits of Duty-Free, Quota-Free Market Access for Poor Countries: Who and What Matters

This paper examines the potential benefits and costs of providing duty-free, quota-free market access to the least developed countries (LDCs), and the effects of extending eligibility to other small and poor countries. Using the MIRAGE computable general equilibrium model, it assesses the impact of scenarios involving different levels of coverage for products, recipient countries, and preference-giving countries on participating countries, as well as competing developing countries that are excluded. The main goal of this paper is to highlight the role that rich and emerging countries could play in helping poor countries to improve their trade performance and to assess the distribution of costs and benefits for developing countries and whether the potential costs for domestic producers are in line with political feasibility in preference-giving countries.CGE modeling, trade policy, duty-free market access, technical barriers to trade,preference erosion

marchés mondiaux des produits agricoles à l'horizon 2020 : causes et conséquences de la hausse des prix.

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MIRAGRODEP 2.0: Documentation

MIRAGRODEP is a recursive-dynamic, multi-region, multi-sector computable general equilibrium model, devoted to trade and agricultural policy analysis. It is developed for AGRODEP and draws upon the MIRAGE model built by CEPII. It incorporates specific features such as foreign direct investment and runs with a tariff aggregation module that allows the user to capture the exclusion effects at a detailed level and the variance of tariffs. The model also includes a submodule allowing to test different closures for the public sector as well as the inefficiency of the tax collection system. MIRAGRODEP 2.0 includes an improved demand system. Social Accounting Matrix (SAM) and trade data in MIRAGRODEP are based on the GTAP database. Additional sources such as MacMap are used for protection data. This technical note presents an expanded documentation, with instructions on how to run the model and an illustrative application

The Potential Cost of Non-Doh

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La délégation de la politique commerciale dans une union douanière

Delegation of trade policy in a custom union Recent research has considered the case for delegation of trade policy in a customs union. In a strategic environment, the union members can increase their surplus by delegating trade policy to a country or an independant agency. These results are not very robust so that their implementation is difficult, especially in heteregenous unions.Cet article a pour objet d'établir un survey critique de la théorie de la délégation de politique commerciale dans une union douanière. Dans un cadre stratégique, lorsque des pays membres d'une telle zone sont différents, ils peuvent avoir tous intérêt à déléguer la responsabilité du tarif extérieur commun à un pays particulier ou à une agence indépendante. Mais, d'une part, de trop grandes différences dans les structures économiques nationales atténuent la portée opératoire de ce principe ; d'autre part, les résultats théoriques s'avèrent peu robustes.Bouët Antoine. La délégation de la politique commerciale dans une union douanière. In: Revue économique, volume 51, n°3, 2000. pp. 725-734

Biofuels: Global Trade and Environmental Impact Study

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The Potential Cost of Non-Doh

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Does Africa Trade Less than it Should and Why?

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