FOREWORD
The School of Economics at the University of Nairobi was awarded the WTO Chairs Program in 2010 and decided to use 75% of the yearly grants on research. This book which is the first volume is the final output of research carried out by some…
This contribution focuses on the analysis of the relationship between trade facilitation, transport costs and sectoral trade in developing countries. A gravity model is estimated using sectoral exports from 181 countries over the period 2004-2013.…
This paper aims to investigate whether exposure to international trade increases the firm’s ability to create jobs, improve its productivity and profitability using a unique Tunisian firm level data set. Several types of firms are considered:…
The main aim of this paper is to investigate the effects of Tunisian trade policy on household welfare. We use the recently released household survey data in combination with estimated tariff pass-through elasticities and wage elasticities obtained…
In this paper we evaluate the extent to which changes in tariffs and in international
prices are transmitted into consumer prices in Tunisia over the period 2000 to 2008. A
pass-through equation is estimated using sectoral panel data at the retail…
The General Agreement on Trade in Services (GATS) is the first Multilateral trade agreement to cover trade in services. Its creation was one of the major achievements of the Uruguay Round of trade negotiations from 1986 to 1993, whose results became…
We have witnessed the resurgence of regional development in terms of regional economic integration groupings at the global level over the past decades. The fundamental objectives for the formation of these sub regional and regional integration…
Foreign direct investment is believed to promote exports of host countries by augmenting domestic capital for exports, helping transfer technology and new products for exports. It also facilitates access to new and large foreign markets, provides…
Trade in agricultural commodities has enormous variations in terms of impacts – be they on poverty, gender or the environment. This underlines the significance of careful analysis in the choice of trade development path for the sector and calls for…
The term non-tariff measures (NTMs) is defined to include export restraints and production and export subsidies, or measures with similar effect, not just import restraints. In Kenya many internal processes by trade facilitation agencies have been…