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  • Sustaining trade reform : institutional lessons from Peru and Argentina (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS6610 Document Date: September 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Baracat,Elias Antonio,Finger,Joseph Michael,Leon Thorne,Raul Matias,Nogues,Julio

  • Sustaining trade reform : institutional lessons from Argentina and Peru (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 79618 Document Date: January 1, 2013 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Baracat,Elias Antonio,Finger,Joseph Michael,Nogues,Julio,Leon Thorne,Raul Matias

  • Safeguards and antidumping in Latin American trade liberalization (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS4680 Document Date: July 1, 2008 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Finger,Joseph Michael,Nogues,Julio

  • Implementing a WTO agreement on trade facilitation : what makes sense ? (English)

    Contrary to the prevailing view that the Doha negotiations have achieved little, the authors find that on trade facilitation much progress has been made. This is particularly true in regard to action by...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3971 Document Date: August 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Finger,Joseph Michael,Wilson,John S.

  • Poor people's knowledge : helping poor people to earn from their knowledge (English)

    How can we help poor people to earn more from their knowledge rather than from their sweat and muscle? This paper draws lessons from projects intended to promote and protect the innovation, knowledge...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3205 Document Date: January 29, 2004 Disclosure Status: Author: Finger,Joseph Michael

  • The unbalanced Ururguay Round outcome : the new areas in future WTO negotiations (English)

    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...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS2732 Document Date: December 31, 2001 Disclosure Status: Author: Finger,Joseph Michael,Nogues,Julio

  • South Africa - A review of trade policies (English)

    This report is an attempt to provide an overview of South Africa's trade regime to assess whether it is conducive to sustaining a prolonged export drive. Stagnation of output and rising unemployment have...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 12969 Document Date: August 31, 1993 Disclosure Status: Author: Belli,Pedro,Finger,Joseph Michael,Ballivian, Amparo,AFR

  • The World Bank research observer 7 (2) (English)

    Dumping and antidumping: the rhetoric and the reality of protection in industrial countries. Policy instruments for pollution control in developing countries. A survey of the costs of world sugar policies...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17521 Document Date: July 31, 1992 Disclosure Status: Author: Finger,Joseph Michael,Eskeland,Gunnar Saethern,Jimenez,Emmanuel Y.,Borrell,Brent William,Duncan,Ronald C.,Mitra,Pradeep K.,McLure, Charles E., Jr.,Tait, Alan A.

  • The origins and evolution of antidumping regulation (English)

    Antidumping has about it the aura of a special measure to undo a special problem. Within this view, the explosion of antidumping actions in the 1980s was simply a good thing carried too far: the appropriate...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS783 Document Date: October 31, 1991 Disclosure Status: Author: Finger,Joseph Michael

  • The meaning of "unfair" in US import policy (English)

    This paper concludes that transparency, openness, and objectivity, are important parts of the American ideal of rule of law. Yet these procedural refinements seem to contribute more to the problem than...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS745 Document Date: August 31, 1991 Disclosure Status: Author: Finger,Joseph Michael

  • La Ronda Uruguay - Manual para las Negociaciones Comerciales Multilaterales (French)

    The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) system is three things: The belief that an open international trading system conveys political and economic advantages to each nation; The international...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 189358 Document Date: February 1, 1989 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Finger,Joseph Michael,Olechowski,Andrzej

  • Economists, institutions, and trade restrictions : a review article (English)

    A review article on the work of "practitioners of contemporary economic analysis of trade restrictions", this report focuses on three questions : a) are there holes in the case of free trade? B) Why are...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS78 Document Date: September 30, 1988 Disclosure Status: Author: Finger,Joseph Michael

  • The Uruguay Round - A Handbook on the Multilateral Trade Negotiations (English)

    The General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT) system is three things: The belief that an open international trading system conveys political and economic advantages to each nation; The international...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 189358 Document Date: November 1, 1987 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Finger,Joseph Michael,Olechowski,Andrzej

  • The World Bank economic review 1 (4) (English)

    Introduction. Trade in services and the multilateral trade negotiations. Agriculture in the Uruguay Round: interests of developing countries. GATT law, agricultural trade, and developing countries: lessons...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 17559 Document Date: September 30, 1987 Disclosure Status: Author: Anjaria, Shailendra J.,Bhagwati,Jagdish N.,Cable, Vincent,Chong-Hyun Nam,Finger,Joseph Michael,HINDLEY, BRIAN V.,Krueger,Anne O.,Nogues,Julio,Sathirathai, Surakiart,SIAMWALLA, AMMAR,Snape,Richard H.,Valdes, Alberto,Wolf,Martin H.