Trade Facilitation and Country Size

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 analyzi...

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Main Authors:	Amin, Mohammad, Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim
Format:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English en_US
Published:	World Bank, Washington, DC 2014
Subjects:	ACCESS ADVERSE EFFECT BILATERAL TRADE BORDER TRADE BTN CAF CARGO CREDIT CUSTOMS CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES CUSTOMS CLEARANCE CUSTOMS PROCEDURES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISTRIBUTION ECONOMIC INTEGRATION ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMIES OF SCALE EXPORT PROCESSING EXPORT PROCESSING ZONE EXPORTS FREE TRADE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT GDP GDP PER CAPITA GOODS GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HANDLING IMPORTS INCOME INTERNATIONAL TRADE INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN SERVICES LABOR LOGISTICS MARKET SIZE MEASURE OF TRADE MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES NON-TARIFF BARRIERS OCEAN TRANSPORT QUALITY SCALE EFFECT SHIPMENTS TARIFF TARIFF BARRIERS TARIFF RATE TARIFF RATES TARIFFS TAXES TERMS OF TRADE THEORY TRADE TRADE AGREEMENT TRADE FACILITATION TRADE MORE TRADE OPENNESS TRADE POLICY TRADE VOLUME VALUE VARIABLES VOLUME OF TRADE WAITING TIME country size
Online Access:	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/11/18490788/trade-facilitation-country-size http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16922

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spelling	okr-10986-169222021-04-23T14:03:33Z Trade Facilitation and Country Size Amin, Mohammad Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim ACCESS ADVERSE EFFECT BILATERAL TRADE BORDER TRADE BTN CAF CARGO CREDIT CUSTOMS CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES CUSTOMS CLEARANCE CUSTOMS PROCEDURES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISTRIBUTION ECONOMIC INTEGRATION ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMIES OF SCALE EXPORT PROCESSING EXPORT PROCESSING ZONE EXPORTS FREE TRADE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT GDP GDP PER CAPITA GOODS GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HANDLING IMPORTS INCOME INTERNATIONAL TRADE INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN SERVICES LABOR LOGISTICS MARKET SIZE MEASURE OF TRADE MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES NON-TARIFF BARRIERS OCEAN TRANSPORT QUALITY SCALE EFFECT SHIPMENTS TARIFF TARIFF BARRIERS TARIFF RATE TARIFF RATES TARIFFS TAXES TERMS OF TRADE THEORY TRADE TRADE AGREEMENT TRADE FACILITATION TRADE MORE TRADE OPENNESS TRADE POLICY TRADE VOLUME VALUE VARIABLES VOLUME OF TRADE WAITING TIME country size 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 as country size becomes smaller; that is, small countries perform better than large countries in terms of trade facilitation. Second, the relationship between country size and trade facilitation is nonlinear, much stronger for the relatively small than the large countries. Third, contrary to what existing studies might suggest, the relationship between country size and trade facilitation does not appear to be driven by the fact that small countries trade more as a proportion of their gross domestic product than the large countries. 2014-02-05T15:12:00Z 2014-02-05T15:12:00Z 2013-11 http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/11/18490788/trade-facilitation-country-size http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16922 English en_US Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6692 CC BY 3.0 IGO http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/igo/ World Bank World Bank, Washington, DC Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper Publications & Research
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topic	ACCESS ADVERSE EFFECT BILATERAL TRADE BORDER TRADE BTN CAF CARGO CREDIT CUSTOMS CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES CUSTOMS CLEARANCE CUSTOMS PROCEDURES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISTRIBUTION ECONOMIC INTEGRATION ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMIES OF SCALE EXPORT PROCESSING EXPORT PROCESSING ZONE EXPORTS FREE TRADE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT GDP GDP PER CAPITA GOODS GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HANDLING IMPORTS INCOME INTERNATIONAL TRADE INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN SERVICES LABOR LOGISTICS MARKET SIZE MEASURE OF TRADE MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES NON-TARIFF BARRIERS OCEAN TRANSPORT QUALITY SCALE EFFECT SHIPMENTS TARIFF TARIFF BARRIERS TARIFF RATE TARIFF RATES TARIFFS TAXES TERMS OF TRADE THEORY TRADE TRADE AGREEMENT TRADE FACILITATION TRADE MORE TRADE OPENNESS TRADE POLICY TRADE VOLUME VALUE VARIABLES VOLUME OF TRADE WAITING TIME country size
spellingShingle	ACCESS ADVERSE EFFECT BILATERAL TRADE BORDER TRADE BTN CAF CARGO CREDIT CUSTOMS CUSTOMS AUTHORITIES CUSTOMS CLEARANCE CUSTOMS PROCEDURES DEVELOPED COUNTRIES DEVELOPING COUNTRIES DEVELOPMENT DEVELOPMENT POLICY DISTRIBUTION ECONOMIC INTEGRATION ECONOMIC RESEARCH ECONOMIES OF SCALE EXPORT PROCESSING EXPORT PROCESSING ZONE EXPORTS FREE TRADE FREE TRADE AGREEMENT GDP GDP PER CAPITA GOODS GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT HANDLING IMPORTS INCOME INTERNATIONAL TRADE INTERNATIONAL TRADE IN SERVICES LABOR LOGISTICS MARKET SIZE MEASURE OF TRADE MIDDLE INCOME COUNTRIES NON-TARIFF BARRIERS OCEAN TRANSPORT QUALITY SCALE EFFECT SHIPMENTS TARIFF TARIFF BARRIERS TARIFF RATE TARIFF RATES TARIFFS TAXES TERMS OF TRADE THEORY TRADE TRADE AGREEMENT TRADE FACILITATION TRADE MORE TRADE OPENNESS TRADE POLICY TRADE VOLUME VALUE VARIABLES VOLUME OF TRADE WAITING TIME country size Amin, Mohammad Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim Trade Facilitation and Country Size
relation	Policy Research Working Paper;No. 6692
description	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 as country size becomes smaller; that is, small countries perform better than large countries in terms of trade facilitation. Second, the relationship between country size and trade facilitation is nonlinear, much stronger for the relatively small than the large countries. Third, contrary to what existing studies might suggest, the relationship between country size and trade facilitation does not appear to be driven by the fact that small countries trade more as a proportion of their gross domestic product than the large countries.
format	Publications & Research :: Policy Research Working Paper
author	Amin, Mohammad Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim
author_facet	Amin, Mohammad Haidar, Jamal Ibrahim
author_sort	Amin, Mohammad
title	Trade Facilitation and Country Size
title_short	Trade Facilitation and Country Size
title_full	Trade Facilitation and Country Size
title_fullStr	Trade Facilitation and Country Size
title_full_unstemmed	Trade Facilitation and Country Size
title_sort	trade facilitation and country size
publisher	World Bank, Washington, DC
publishDate	2014
url	http://documents.worldbank.org/curated/en/2013/11/18490788/trade-facilitation-country-size http://hdl.handle.net/10986/16922
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