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This joint OECD-WTO publication puts a spotlight on aid for trade to assess what is happening, what is not, and where improvements are needed. The analysis is focused on trends in aid-for-trade policies, programmes and practices. Read More

This publication is based on the work produced and commissioned by ANND during its two-year project on the socio-economic impact of trade liberalization policies on the Arab region, which was supported by the Ford Foundation. Read More

We document a set of bilateral trade data by commodity for 1962-2000, which is available from www.nber.org/data (International Trade Data, NBER-UN world trade data). Users must agree not to resell or distribute the data for 1984-2000. The data are organized by the 4-...Read More

When local cost discovery generates knowledge spillovers, specializa- tion patterns become partly indeterminate and the mix of goods that a country produces may have important implications for economic growth. We demonstrate this proposition formally and adduce some...Read More

This paper shows that the top 1 percent of exporters critically shape trade patterns, using firm-level data from 32 countries. In particular, variation in average firm size (the intensive margin) explains over two thirds of the variation in the sector distribution of...Read More

This paper studies the structure and evolution of trade protection in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries in the 1990s. Read More

Within the study "Economic Integration in the Euro-Mediterranean Region" - The study provides quantitative, qualitative and sectoral assessments of the impacts of the Euro- Mediterranean free trade area on trade and investment in order to clearly evaluate which effects...Read More

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Article published in" Catching up with the competition: trade opportunities and challenges for Arab countries" Read More

This paper estimates a gravity model to address  the issue of whether intra-Arab trade is too little. Read More