Where to Spend the Next Million? Applying Impact Evaluation to Trade Assistance

Trade policy has changed fundamentally since the days of structural adjustment and economy-wide trade reforms. Partly in reaction to the uneven results of trade policy reforms, the focus has shifted to more targeted interventions aimed at reducing trade costs and addressing market failures that inhi...

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Main Authors:	Cadot, Olivier, Fernandes, Ana M., Gourdon, Julien, Mattoo, Aaditya
Format:	Publication
Language:	en_US
Published:	London: Centre for Economic Policy Research and the World Bank 2013
Subjects:	aggregate exports agriculture apparel applied tariff asymmetric information average tariffs Bank lending bankruptcy barriers to trade benchmarking bilateral trade bilateral trade agreements budget constraints budgetary support business environment capacity building choice of transport comparative advantage consumers cost effectiveness Customs customs brokers customs clearance customs offices customs officials customs revenue debt developing countries development assistance development policy diminishing returns econometrics economic activity Economic development economic growth Economic Policy economic rate of return economic research economics economics research economists empirical evidence environmental environments expenditures export assistance export basket export capacity export certification Export credit Export credit guarantee Export credit insurance export finance export growth export incentives export markets Export Performance export processing export processing zones export promotion export promotion agencies export supply export support export value export-processing zone exporters Exports factor endowments financial crisis financial incentives fishing fixed costs foreign markets foreign trade forestry GDP GDP per capita gravity equation gross domestic product growth rate Impact of Trade import duty import quotas imports income industrial policies industrial policy infrastructures inspection interest rate international markets international trade less developed countries Lotteries market access market failures market share market size metals national treatment non-tariff barriers oil oil imports per capita income perverse incentives positive effects present value producers product markets quantitative restrictions rail Railway railway network railways regional integration regression analysis resource management retail trade Road Road network road transport Roads route sourcing speeds stricter enforcement structural adjustment structural change tariff barriers tariff data tariff revenue tax technical assistance tourism Trade Assistance trade barriers Trade Capacity trade competitiveness trade context Trade costs trade development trade facilitation trade finance trade flows trade integration trade logistics trade policies trade policy trade policy reforms Trade Promotion trade protection trade reforms trade regimes Trade Strategy Trade volumes trade-related investment Traffic Traffic volumes transit Transport transport choice Transport corridors Transport Costs transport infrastructure transportation transportation costs true undervaluation Uruguay Round value of exports volume of trade wages Welfare effects WTO
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