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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
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

Trade Facilitation and Country Size

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