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FTA Networking in East Asia and Asia-Pacific: Where Are We Going?
This paper provides an overview on the recent development of FTA networking in extended East Asia and assesses the quality of FTAs with novel...
Product Standards and Developing Country Agricultural Exports: The Case of the European Union
This paper shows that private product standards in EU food and agriculture markets can have significant trade effects. In particular for developing...
A Tale of Three Markets: How Government Policy Creates Winners and Losers in the Philippine Health Sector
For more than half a century the Philippines has been a leading exporter of human capital in the healthcare sector. This paper estimates that...
Measuring the Cost of International Trade in Services
We present a new dataset of international trade costs in services sectors. Using a theory-based methodology combined with data on domestic shipments...
Do Stronger IPRs Deliver the Goods (and Services) in Developing Countries?
The 1990s witnessed a global wave of intellectual property rights reform. Anchored in a series of international accords, this wave resulted in...
Thinking beyond Basel III: Necessary solutions for capital and liquidity
In previous studies, the OECD has identified the main hallmarks of the crisis as too-big-to-fail institutions that took on too much risk, insolvency...