Industrial and Competitiveness Policy
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Half a Century of Exporting Educational Services: Assessing Egypt’s Role in Educating the Arab World
Egypt’s role as the leading exporter of educational services to the Arab region has been a source of national pride and great debate in the...
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Public Money for Public Goods: Winners and Losers from CAP Reform
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyWho will win and who will lose under the post-2013 Common Agricultural Policy (CAP)? Will those member states that benefit most from the current...
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Transparency of Complex Regulation: How Should WTO Trade Policy Reviews Deal with Sanitary and Phytosanitary Policies?
Protectionism flourishes in the shadow and withers in the sunlight. That is the idea behind the WTO’s Trade Policy Review Mechanism (TPRM) that...
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Assessing International Trade in Healthcare Services
By: Lior HermanMany stories and anecdotal evidence document doctors and patients travelling across the globe to give and receive medical and cosmetic surgeries,...
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The European Dairy Sector at a Crossroad: Production Quota and Export Refund Opting Out
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThe European Union (EU) reactivated export refunds for dairy products on January 2009. These world market distortive instruments had been previously...
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When to Privatize? When to Nationalize? A Competition for Ownership Approach
Tags: economyTheories of privatization or nationalization typically compare the economic or political efficiency of private and state ownership, either in...
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The Baltic Tiger – The Political Economy of Estonia’s Transition from Plan to Market
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyBy: Fredrik ErixonFew countries have reformed their economies as swiftly and decisively as Estonia in 1992-94. The economic reform program started during the...
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Liberalising Air Passenger Services in APEC
Research Areas: Far East Industrial and Competitiveness Policy South Asia and Oceania Trade, Globalisation and SecurityThis working paper aims at assessing the prospects for a more liberal air passenger transport regime in the Asia Pacific region under the auspices of...
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Reforming the EU’s Common Agricultural Policy: Health Check, Budget Review, Doha Round
Research Areas: EU Single Market, Institutions, and Governance Industrial and Competitiveness PolicyThis Policy Brief provides recommendations for agricultural policy reform in the EU. It argues, first, that all measures that distort market...