A new approach to evaluating trade policy.
The authors introduce a new measure, the Trade Restrictiveness Index, to measure the restrictiveness of a system of trade protection. They propose an alternative to the commonly used ad hoc indexes of trade restrictiveness, such as the trade-weighted average tariff. That measure has no welfare-theor...
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| Format: | Working paper |
| Language: | English |
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World Bank
1992
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