02385nam a2200337 a 4500 20181210070932.0 cr ||||||||||| 060207s2006 dcu sb i000 0 eng 2005399839 DLC DLC BD-DhBPA HG3881.5.W57 388.15 KEE 2006 Kee, Hiau Looi 108789 Estimating trade restrictiveness indices / Hiau Looi Kee, Marcelo Olarreaga, Alessandro Nicita, , Research working paper Collection Title:Policy. Washington, D.C. : World Bank, 2006 35 p. ; 35 cm. Policy research working paper ; 3840 Title from PDF file as viewed on 2/7/2006. Includes bibliographical references. "The objective of this paper is to provide indicators of trade restrictiveness that include both measures of tariff and nontariff barriers for 91 developing and industrial countries. For each country, the authors estimate three trade restrictiveness indices. The first one summarizes the degree of trade distortions that each country imposes on itself through its own trade policies. The second one focuses on the trade distortions imposed by each country on its import bundle. The last index focuses on market access and summarizes the trade distortions imposed by the rest of the world on each country's export bundle. All indices are estimated for the broad aggregates of manufacturing and agriculture products. Results suggest that poor countries (and those with the highest poverty headcount) tend to be more restrictive, but they also face the highest trade barriers on their export bundle. This is partly explained by the fact that agriculture protection is generally larger than manufacturing protection. Nontariff barriers contribute more than 70 percent on average to world protection, underlying their importance for any study on trade protection. "--World Bank web site. Also available in print. System requirements: Adobe Acrobat Reader. Mode of access: World Wide Web. Zahid Tariff Case studies. 108790 Olarreaga, M. 108380 Nicita, Alessandro. 108791 World Bank. 108792 Policy research working papers (Online) ; 3840. 108793 ddc BK 37865 37865 0 ddc 0 0 BPATC BPATC GRR 2018-05-13 0 388.15 KEE 2006 WB3910 2018-05-13 00:00:00 2018-05-13 BK Zahid