{"title":"Revisiting Knowledge-for-Development","authors":"Pierre Jacquet","doi":"10.1017/S1474745623000046","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745623000046","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The Knowledge-for-Development (K4D) approach has been characterized by a marked concentration of the production of research on development in developed countries. The underlying utilitarian approach to social science research misrepresents the nature and making of policy, raises entry barriers for developing country researchers, and focuses on the production of research to the detriment of its use. Using such research in developing countries requires informed debate, consideration of the local environment, and sufficient local research capacity. Foreign assistance should focus on research capacity building as a specific objective, distinct from the production and publication of research, with its own management, implementation, and monitoring. This is essential if the objective of the K4D approach, namely the better use of scientific knowledge to enhance the quality of policies, is to be achieved.","PeriodicalId":46109,"journal":{"name":"World Trade Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"359 - 369"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48221166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Lowering Regulatory Trade Costs","authors":"Jacques Pelkmans","doi":"10.1017/S1474745623000174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745623000174","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Negotiations on ‘deeper’ trade agreements and estimates of tariff equivalents have increased the awareness that regulatory trade costs are (too) high. This paper discusses ways to effectively lower such costs, reviewing the potential role of trade agreements and international regulatory cooperation, and the approaches that have been taken in different world regions. Attention is also paid to cost reduction via global technical standardization. Key issues are how to reduce the prevalence of national standards setting and how to best promote international standards. In both dimensions, Europe is argued to play a frontrunner role.","PeriodicalId":46109,"journal":{"name":"World Trade Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"497 - 507"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"43855664","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yohannes Ayele, Michael Gasiorek, Manuel Tong Koecklin
{"title":"Trade Preference Utilization Post-Brexit: The Role of Rules of Origin","authors":"Yohannes Ayele, Michael Gasiorek, Manuel Tong Koecklin","doi":"10.1017/S1474745623000228","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745623000228","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract The degree to which firms make use of preferences in exporting to a partner country under a Free Trade Agreement will in good part depend on the restrictiveness of the underlying Rules of Origin (ROOs). Focusing on the post-Brexit Trade and Cooperation Agreement (TCA) signed by the United Kingdom and the European Union, we examine how access to zero preferential tariffs has been impacted by ROOs. We do so by constructing a ROO restrictiveness index which varies across products. We find that the TCA has an overall moderate degree of ROO restrictiveness. Using product-country level trade data, we find that preference utilization under the TCA has risen over time, and exhibits a positive correlation at the product level with the EU Common External Tariff. Regressions on the determinants of preference utilization indicate that more restrictive ROOs are associated with a lower degree of preference utilization by UK firms in the EU market and this effect is more evident for consumption goods. Preference utilization is also driven by the size of the preferential margin, the size of the trade flows, and the extent to which exports are undertaken by producers as opposed to distributors, as well as the degree of firms’ engagement in value chains.","PeriodicalId":46109,"journal":{"name":"World Trade Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"436 - 451"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44902657","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"A (More) Systematic Exploration of the Trade Effect of Product-Specific Rules of Origin","authors":"J. Gourdon, Karin Gourdon, Jaime de Melo","doi":"10.1017/S1474745623000125","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745623000125","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Rules of Origin (RoO) are critical components of Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs). They are designed to stop products coming into a PTA through the partner that applies the lowest tariff – a phenomenon known as trade deflection. While RoO are necessary, complex RoO may undo the benefits of trade agreements. Using a novel database of RoO, this paper evaluates the incidence and restrictiveness of different types of Product-Specific Rules of Origin (PSRs) across 128 reciprocal PTAs for the period 1990–2015. Results, based on a structural gravity model controlling for confounding factors, display wide heterogeneity across different categories of PSRs attached to preferential margins, with more flexible PSRs associated with a significantly stronger trade effect compared to more restrictive ones where exporters do not have a choice among PSRs or have to satisfy multiple PSRs. A simulation exercise reveals that a radical simplification reform leading to the adoption of flexible PSRs providing alternative choices to prove origin would have increased global trade under PTAs on average by between 2.7 and 4% during the sample period.","PeriodicalId":46109,"journal":{"name":"World Trade Review","volume":"36 1","pages":"421 - 435"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"56985672","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
W. O. A. Lschner, M. A. E. Lsig, J. O. F. Rançois, H. Y. V. Anddenbussche, E. M. B. Lanchard, P. E. V. D. B. Ossche, C. H. P. B. Own, D. A. C. Ampello, S. T. C. Harnovitz, C. A. F. Ischer, J. U. G. Oldstein, D. O. A. I. Rwin, M. E. E. J. Anow, S. O. Y. Eon, R. O. K. Oopman, OW Patrickl, C. H. V. Olpe, M. Artincus, H. E. M. Ilner, E. M. O. Rnelas, R. A. O. Ssa, M. A. P. Anezi, S. H. -. I. P. Eng, M. O. P. I. -. Aulsen, S. T. R. Ickard, A. L. S. Ykes, T. A. V. Oon, L. A. L. W. Inters, R. O. W. Olfe, U. Markw, W. E. Z. Hou
{"title":"WTR volume 22 issue 3-4 Cover and Front matter","authors":"W. O. A. Lschner, M. A. E. Lsig, J. O. F. Rançois, H. Y. V. Anddenbussche, E. M. B. Lanchard, P. E. V. D. B. Ossche, C. H. P. B. Own, D. A. C. Ampello, S. T. C. Harnovitz, C. A. F. Ischer, J. U. G. Oldstein, D. O. A. I. Rwin, M. E. E. J. Anow, S. O. Y. Eon, R. O. K. Oopman, OW Patrickl, C. H. V. Olpe, M. Artincus, H. E. M. Ilner, E. M. O. Rnelas, R. A. O. Ssa, M. A. P. Anezi, S. H. -. I. P. Eng, M. O. P. I. -. Aulsen, S. T. R. Ickard, A. L. S. Ykes, T. A. V. Oon, L. A. L. W. Inters, R. O. W. Olfe, U. Markw, W. E. Z. Hou","doi":"10.1017/s1474745623000332","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/s1474745623000332","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":46109,"journal":{"name":"World Trade Review","volume":" ","pages":"f1 - f2"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"44013763","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The Indirect Effects of Brexit on African, Caribbean, and Pacific Trade with the UK and EU","authors":"P. Montalbano, S. Nenci, Ilaria Fusacchia","doi":"10.1017/S1474745623000137","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745623000137","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract We analyse the ‘indirect effects’ of Brexit on African, Caribbean, and Pacific (ACP) countries’ exports that use the UK as a platform to access the EU market and vice versa. First, we use the EORA26 multi-region input–output database for 186 countries and 26 sectors to characterize the ACP domestic content embedded in bilateral trade between the UK and the EU. Second, we apply the GTAP-VA module to carry out a simulation of how the EU–UK Trade and Cooperation Agreement will impinge on 121 countries and 65 products. The results suggest that while ‘indirect effects’ on ACP countries’ exports may exist, their economic magnitude is small in aggregate because ACP countries supply only small amounts of inputs used in UK–EU bilateral trade. Our simulations also show that these effects may be offset by the likely increase in ACP domestic content in exports because of TCA friction, mainly towards the UK.","PeriodicalId":46109,"journal":{"name":"World Trade Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"452 - 462"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47322996","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Land Abundance, Openness, and Industrialization","authors":"Adrian Wood","doi":"10.1017/S1474745623000095","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745623000095","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract With a modified formalization of Heckscher–Ohlin theory as the basis of a novel econometric specification, this paper uses worldwide data over three decades to estimate how the effects of greater openness on industrialization vary among countries with differing endowments of land relative to labour. The results confirm the theoretical prediction that greater openness reduces manufactured output shares in land-abundant countries, while increasing them in land-scarce countries. The implications of these results for trade and development policy are debatable.","PeriodicalId":46109,"journal":{"name":"World Trade Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"312 - 322"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"49363775","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Trade Policy, Openness, and Development: Essays in Honour of L. Alan Winters","authors":"Ingo Borchert, B. Hoekman","doi":"10.1017/S147474562300023X","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S147474562300023X","url":null,"abstract":"Alan Winters was the editor of the World Trade Review (WTR) from December 2008 to mid-2020. Launched in 2002 as a joint initiative of the WTO Secretariat and Cambridge University Press, the WTR has become the leading multidisciplinary journal in the field of international trade broadly defined. In the period during which Alan was editor of the journal, the number of issues grew from three to five, reflecting the significant increase in the number of quality submissions. The impact factor of the journal rose to 1.6 in 2020, an increase by 150%, above that of The World Economy, arguably the incumbent in the field when the WTR was created.","PeriodicalId":46109,"journal":{"name":"World Trade Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"297 - 301"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"48748135","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Kym Anderson, Erwin Corong, Anna Strutt, E. Valenzuela
{"title":"The Relative Importance of Global Agricultural Subsidies and Tariffs, Revisited","authors":"Kym Anderson, Erwin Corong, Anna Strutt, E. Valenzuela","doi":"10.1017/S1474745623000101","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1017/S1474745623000101","url":null,"abstract":"Abstract Over the past three decades, tariff protection to farmers has fallen and partly been replaced by domestic support, whilst support for farmers in some emerging economies has grown. Against that backdrop, this paper provides new estimates of national economic impacts of global agricultural tariffs and domestic supports. Using the latest global economy-wide GTAP (Global Trade Analysis Project) model calibrated to 2017, we simulate (a) the removal of food and agricultural domestic supports and agri-food tariffs and (b) the removal also of tariffs on imports of non-agricultural goods. We find that agricultural support policies are still an important part of the global welfare cost of all goods’ trade-restrictive policies (albeit only half as costly as in 2001), and tariffs still dominate the global welfare cost of all farm-support programs. That farm support could be re-instrumented to relieve natural resource and environmental stresses, boost food and nutrition security, and alleviate poverty and income inequality.","PeriodicalId":46109,"journal":{"name":"World Trade Review","volume":"22 1","pages":"382 - 394"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2023-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"47939771","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"社会学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}