We estimate the effects of trade facilitation on export diversification, as measured by two extensive margins: the number of products exported by destination and the number of export destinations served by product. To address causality we use only…
En 2006, le Bénin a bénéficié de l’initiative du Gouvernement américain, le Programme Millenium Challenge Account (MCA) : la principale composante du Programme reste le "Projet Accès aux Marchés" avec plus de 61% des subventions orientées vers une…
Trade facilitation has been in WTO agenda since 1996 and only in 2013 WTO Members were able to conclude an agreement to deal with that important issue to guarantee a freer international trade.
From a marginal topic in the Doha Round negotiations,…
La facilitation commerciale a toujours été considéré comme un facteur déterminant de l’intégration régionale et du développement du commerce aux niveaux tant national qu'international. Elle est tributaire d’un ensemble de conditions à savoir des…
The EAEU came into force on January 1, 2015. In comparison with previously existing Customs Union of Russian Federation, Republic of Belarus and Republic of Kazakhstan it also encompasses Republic Armenia. Kyrgyzstan is expected to join the club in…
Given its abundant natural resources and accelerating consumer-driven growth, Sub-Saharan Africa (SSA) has much to offer investors and traders. Yet SSA remains weakly integrated into global and regional value chains due to, among other things,…
In this paper we evaluate the extent to which changes in tariffs and in international
prices are transmitted into consumer prices in Tunisia over the period 2000 to 2008. A
pass-through equation is estimated using sectoral panel data at the retail-…
29 September, 2013, the China (Shanghai) Pilot Free Trade Zone (Shanghai FTZ) was officially launched, soon after the State Council of the People's Republic of China (hereinafter referred to as the State Council) released the Framework Plan for the…