A country that is liberalizing its capital account faces the challenges of strengthening financial institutions to ensure they are capable of operating in a more market-oriented system and deciding ...

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Journal of Economic Integration, Vol. 16, No. 2 (June 2001), pp. 147-164 (18 pages) In recent years most studies analyzing cross-country convergence have ignored the role of international trade, ...

To illustrate this point, we construct the first database of annual US statutory tariffs from 1972 to 1988 and use it to explore the consequences of liberalization in the years spanning the Tokyo ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I write about the Chinese economy. Effective July 20, the People's Bank of China (PBOC) removed the lending rate floor, previously ...

Ministry of Foreign Affairs and European Commission delegation discussed visa liberalization, the commission demanded that the State of Emergency be ended. The dialogue meeting about visa ...

The empirical literature on trade liberalization reflects two puzzles. First, the effect of trade liberalization on economic growth is ambiguous. Second, the effect of trade liberalization by ...

India sent shockwaves through the global tech industry last week. Citing no reasons in particular, Prime Minister Narendra Modi’s government mandated a special license for the import of laptops, ...