Applied trade policy modeling in 16 countries : insights and impacts from World Bank CGE based projects / David G. Tarr.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Welfare costs of US quotas in textiles, steel and auto / J. Melo and D.G. Tarr -- Reforming Hungarian agricultural trade policy: a quantitative evaluation / M. Morkre and D.G. Tarr -- Second-best foreign exchange policy in the presence of domestic price controls and export subsidies / D.G. Tarr -- Trade reform in the partially liberalized economy of Turkey / G.W. Harrison, T.F. Rutherford and D.G. Tarr -- The impact of liberalizing barriers to foreign direct investment in services: the case of Russian accession to the World Trade Organization / J. Jensen, T.F. Rutherford and D.G. Tarr -- Regional impacts of liberalization of barriers against foreign direct investment in services: the case of Russia's accession to the WTO / T.R. Rutherford and D.G. Tarr -- Impact of local content restrictions and barriers against foreign direct investment in services: the case of Kazakhstan accession to the WTO / J. Jensen and D.G. Tarr -- Modeling services liberalization: the case of Tanzania / J. Jensen, T.F. Rutherford and D.G. Tarr -- Trade policy and poverty reduction in Brazil / G.W. Harrison, T.F. Rutherford, D.G. Tarr and A. Gurgel -- Trade liberalization, poverty and efficient equity / G.W. Harrison, T.F. Rutherford and D.G. Tarr -- Poverty effects of Russia's WTO accession: modeling real households with endogenous productivity effects / T.F. Rutherford and D.G. Tarr -- Trade, exchange rate and energy pricing reform in Iran: potentially large efficiency effects and gains to the poor / J. Jensen and D.G. Tarr -- Trade policy options for Chile: the importance of market access / G.W. Harrison, T.F. Rutherford and D.G. Tarr -- Increased competition and completion of the market in the European Union: static and steady state effects / G.W. Harrison, T.F. Rutherford and D.G. Tarr -- Economic implications for Turkey of a customs union with the European Union / G.W. Harrison, T.F. Rutherford and D.G. Tarr -- Morocco's free trade agreement with the EU: a quantitative assessment / T.F. Rutherford, E. Elizabet Rutstrom and D.G. Tarr -- Introduction and tables to services liberalization in preferential trade agreements: the case of Kenya / E.J. Balistreri and D.G. Tarr -- Deep trade policy options for Armenia: the importance of trade facilitation, services and standards liberalization / J. Jensen and D.G. Tarr -- The Eurasian customs union among Russia, Belarus and Kazakhstan: can it succeed where its predecessor failed? / D.G. Tarr.

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This book focuses on the World Bank projects, led by the author, based on computable general equilibrium models of international trade policy. The chapters show an unusual combination of policy relevance, advice and impact, with academic rigor and international trade theory insights. The author discusses some of the policy contexts for the requests from developing and transition countries to the World Bank, the key trade theory or policy insights, policy recommendations and conclusions, and the policy impacts.

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