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  • Quantifying Economic Impacts of Trade Agreements with Heterogeneous Trade Elasticities (English)

    Bilateral trade relationships between countries vary across products. Such heterogeneity poses challenges when assessing the economic impacts of trade agreements. This paper estimates bilateral trade elasticities...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10634 Document Date: December 11, 2023 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kee,Hiau Looi,Nicita,Alessandro

  • Growth, Trade, and Transformation - A Country Economic Memorandum for Uganda (English)

    Uganda has made significant progress in the last three decades; most importantly, Ugandans now live much longer and better lives than before. Since 1990, the life expectancy of a Ugandan baby has increased...

    Document Type: Country Economic Memorandum Report No.: 179349 Document Date: December 31, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Onder,Harun,Walker,Richard Ancrum,Stucka,Tihomir,Kee,Hiau Looi,Forero Rojas,Alejandro,Maur,Jean-Christophe,Stojanov,Aleksandar,Kanamugire,Silas,Atamanov,Aziz,Artuc,Erhan,Leunga Noukwe,Isambert,Santley,David John,Moreira,Susana,Qasim,Qursum,Repa,Liliya

  • Trade Fraud and Non-Tariff Measures (English)

    Similar to tariffs, non-tariff measures may induce trade fraud when they are restrictive. This paper examines whether discrepancies observed in the official trade statistics of importing and exporting...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS10112 Document Date: June 29, 2022 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kee,Hiau Looi,Nicita,Alessandro

  • Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation : Cross-Country Evidence (English)

    The past decades have witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains (GVCs). Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam rode the tide, while other countries...

    Document Type: Journal Article Report No.: 186305 Document Date: August 30, 2021 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Kee,Hiau Looi,Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth

  • Determinants of Global Value Chain Participation : Cross-Country Evidence (English)

    The past decades witnessed big changes in international trade with the rise of global value chains. Some countries, such as China, Poland, and Vietnam, rode the tide, while other countries, many in the...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9197 Document Date: March 26, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Fernandes,Ana Margarida,Kee,Hiau Looi,Winkler,Deborah Elisabeth

  • Toward Successful Development Policies : Insights from Research in Development Economics (English)

    What major insights have emerged from development economics in the past decade, and how do they matter for the World Bank? This challenging question was recently posed by World Bank Group President David...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS9133 Document Date: January 30, 2020 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Artuc,Erhan,Cull,Robert J.,Dasgupta,Susmita,Fattal Jaef,Roberto N.,Filmer,Deon P.,Gine,Xavier,Jacoby,Hanan G.,Jolliffe,Dean Mitchell,Kee,Hiau Looi,Klapper,Leora,Kraay,Aart C.,Loayza,Norman V.,Mckenzie,David J.,Ozler,Berk,Rao,Vijayendra,Rijkers,Bob,Schmukler,Sergio L.,Toman,Michael A.,Wagstaff, Adam,Woolcock,Michael

  • Short-term impact of Brexit on the United Kingdom's export of goods (English)

    The short-term impact of Brexit on goods exports is assessed using the Overall Trade Restrictiveness Index of the United Kingdom's major trading partners. The analysis shows that in the short run, leaving...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS8195 Document Date: September 13, 2017 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kee,Hiau Looi,Nicita,Alessandro

  • Domestic value added in exports: theory and firm evidence from China (English)

    China has defied the declining trend in domestic content in exports in many countries. This paper studies China’s rising domestic content in exports using firm- and customs transaction-level data. The...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7491 Document Date: November 13, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kee,Hiau Looi,Tang,Heiwai

  • Firm heterogeneity and costly trade: a new estimation strategy and policy experiments (English)

    This paper builds a tractable partial equilibrium model to help explain the role of trade preferences given to developing countries, as well as the efficacy of various subsidy policies. The model allows...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS7156 Document Date: January 1, 2015 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Cherkashin,Ivan,Demidova,Svetlana,Kee,Hiau Looi,Krishna,Kala M.

  • Trade liberalization and export variety : a comparison of Mexico and China (English)

    The issue of measuring product variety has received relatively little attention due to its inherent difficulty. In the language of index numbers, an expansion in the range of inputs or outputs is a 'new...

    Document Type: Working Paper Report No.: 66617 Document Date: December 31, 2011 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Feenstra,Robert C.,Kee,Hiau Looi

  • The effects of domestic climate change measures on international competitiveness (English)

    Under the Kyoto Protocol, industrialized countries (called Annex I countries) have to reduce their combined emissions to 5 percent below 1990 levels in the first commitment period of 2008-12. Efforts to...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS5309 Document Date: May 1, 2010 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kee,Hiau Looi,Ma,Hong,Mani,Muthukumara S.

  • International trade and climate change : economic, legal, and institutional perspectives (English)

    The broad objective of this study is to analyze areas in which the climate change agenda intersects with multilateral trade obligations. The study identifies the key issues at stake, as well as possible...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 41453 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Govindarajalu,Chandrasekar,Kee,Hiau Looi,Kishore,Sunanda,Mani,Muthukumara S.,Morita,Sachiko,Seki,Cizuka,Sugathan,Mahesh,Tatsui, Eri

  • International trade and climate change : economic, legal, and institutional perspectives (Farsi)

    The broad objective of this study is to analyze areas in which the climate change agenda intersects with multilateral trade obligations. The study identifies the key issues at stake, as well as possible...

    Document Type: Publication Report No.: 41453 Document Date: January 1, 2007 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Govindarajalu,Chandrasekar,Kee,Hiau Looi,Kishore,Sunanda,Mani,Muthukumara S.,Morita,Sachiko,Seki,Cizuka,Sugathan,Mahesh,Tatsui, Eri

  • Estimating trade restrictiveness indices (English)

    The objective of this paper is to provide indicators of trade restrictiveness that include both measures of tariff and nontariff barriers for 91 developing and industrial countries. For each country, the...

    Document Type: Policy Research Working Paper Report No.: WPS3840 Document Date: February 1, 2006 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Kee,Hiau Looi,Nicita,Alessandro,Olarreaga,Marcelo

  • End of MFA quotas : Key issues and strategic options for Bangladesh readymade garment industry (English)

    It was the Multi Fiber Arrangement (MFA) in global textile and clothing trade that opened the doors for Bangladesh creating a golden opportunity for exploiting its comparative advantage in the labor-intensive...

    Document Type: Working Paper (Numbered Series) Report No.: 35551 Document Date: December 1, 2005 Disclosure Status: Disclosed Author: Ahmad,Nilufar,Ahmed, Nasiruddin,Ahsan,F. M. Ziaul,Alexander, Rajani,Baysan,Tercan,Devarajan,Shantayanan,Kee,Hiau Looi,Islam, Shafiqul,Mahmood,Syed,Malone, Vlad,Martin, Will,Matsaert, Frank,Razi, Zillul Hye,Sattar,Zaidi,Taslim,Mohammad Ali