We study how trade-policy dynamics affect the dynamics of trade volumes and the implications of these effects for estimates of the trade elasticity. We use data on US imports and trade policy from ...

You can find more analysis and recommendations in the Reforms for a Brighter Future Discussion Note on Improving Learning Outcomes. Current trade policy encourages firms to supply the domestic market, ...

The speech’s failure to reference how the government plans to deal with increased trade barriers, combined with the VAT hike, ...

Instead, they lifted the carpet and discretely brushed all hoped-for reforms under it ... seemed to surprise even the most enthusiastic trade policy wonks. One must question the millions of ...

Tax reforms are critical for all three objectives. Monetary tightening and interest rate hikes have reached their limits, and further progress with stabilisation requires fiscal policy actions to redu ...

Intellectual property, not tariffs, is the future of U.S. manufacturing. It’s also why America’s exports of services are in such high demand around the world. That’s the message the 2025 Special 301 ...

Recent decades have seen rapid growth of the world economy. This growth has been driven in part by the even faster rise in international trade. The growth in trade is in turn the result of both ...

Implementing the desired reforms in Bangladesh is particularly challenging due to the complexities of political and social ...

Key provisions of tax reform have already expired ... But if tariffs continue, we need a commonsense trade policy — one that provides manufacturers with certainty to plan, invest and grow.

we have been able to position the Philippines among the emerging markets through progressive policy reforms and strategic incentives," the trade chief said. "Indeed, these initiatives attract ...