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Trade Costs and Productivity in Services Sectors
For goods sectors, there is extensive empirical evidence that lower trade costs are associated with higher productivity at the firm- and...
Did Euro Leaders Say Goodbye to the IMF?
This policy brief takes stock of the agreement by Eurozone countries in late June at the European summit. If this agreement survives (which is by no...
Immigration: An Opportunity for the European Union
The debate in Europe on migration, and its impact on employment, is lively but often painfully misguided. Increasing unemployment and the euro crisis...
Beyond Dutch Disease: When Deteriorating Rule of Law affects Russian Trade in High-Tech Goods and Services with Advanced Economies
How does Russia’s deterioration of its rule of law in recent years affect its ability to move away from an export pattern dominated by natural...
The Meaning of the Unsaid: The New Eurozone Deal in Perspective
Expectations were low as European leaders gathered in Brussels on Thursday last week for yet another summit to deal with an escalation of the crisis....
The Eurozone’s Arrested Adolescence: Sketching a Way Out of the Crisis
The Eurozone crisis has been reinforced and prolonged by leaders’ inability to agree on robust and credible crisis responses. Individual...
Aid for Trade is Reaching its Limits, so What’s Next?
The Aid for Trade Initiative has reached its limits and is in a need to be revamped. This article describes the political economy that led to the...