Trade facilitation and country size (English)

It is argued that compared with large countries, small countries rely more on trade and therefore they are more likely to adopt liberal trading policies. The present paper extends this idea beyond the conventional trade openness measures by analyzing the relationship between country size and the number of documents required to export and import, a measure of trade facilitation. Three important results follow. First, trade facilitation does improve...

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Amin,Mohammad;

Haidar,Jamal;
Document Date
2013/11/01
Document Type
Policy Research Working Paper
Report Number
WPS6692
Volume No
1
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1
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World,
Region
Other,
Disclosure Date
2013/11/01
Disclosure Status
Disclosed
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Trade facilitation and country size
Keywords
regression results

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Amin,Mohammad; Haidar,Jamal.

Trade facilitation and country size (English). Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 6692 Washington D.C. - The Worldbank. http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/160461468325810494

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