Carbon Labelling and Low Income Country Exports: An Issues Paper (2008)
Brenton, Paul, Edwards-Jones, Gareth, Jensen, Michael
In response to growing concerns over climate change, consumers and firms in developed countries are considering their carbon footprint. Carbon labelling is being explored as a mechanism for...
Anderton, Bob (ed.), Brenton, Paul (ed.), Whalley, John (ed.)
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Brenton, Paul, Manchin, Miriam.
The economic prospects of the Mediterranean countries are currently constrained by the lack of ambition in their relationships with each other and with their major export market, the EU. These...
Varieties of anticommutative n-ary algebras (2003)
Trade preferences are a key element in industrial countries efforts to assist the integration of the least developed countries (LDCs) into the world economy. This paper provides an initial evaluation...
Much of the attention on the economic aspects of the forthcoming enlargement of the EU have concentrated upon the high-profile issues which are linked to the level of relative economic development in...
Outsourcing and Inequality. CEPS Working Document No. 187, October 2002 (2002)
Anderton, Bob, Brenton, Paul, Oscarsson, Eva.
This paper brings together and analyses the results of empirical analyses which, in contrast to most other studies, find that trade has been a significant cause of labour market inequality in various...
V. Schoppenthau, Philip, Brenton, Paul, Egerer, Julia, Buelens, Christian.
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Brenton, Paul, Manchin, Miriam.
A key element of the EU’s free trade and preferential trade agreements is the extent to which they deliver improved market access and so contribute to the EUs foreign policy objectives towards...
Brenton, Paul, Pinna, Anna Maria.
As in other industrialised countries, the manufacturing sector in Italy has recently experienced a substantial increase in the use of skilled relative to unskilled workers - skill upgrading. In this...
What are the limits to economic integration? CEPS Working Document No. 177, November 2001 (2001)
This paper discusses the continuing importance of borders, even within the EU, for the volume of international trade and global capital flows. It suggests that a range of factors, including the...
Brenton, Paul, Vancauteren, Marc.
This paper brings together two important facets of current debates concerning trade policy and trade modelling: the importance of estimated border effects and the impact of technical barriers to...
The Future of the WTO and the New Trade Round. CEPS Task Force Reports No. 36, 1 June 2001 (2001)
The world trading system is at an important juncture. Subject to increasing public scrutiny and criticism, the WTO needs to reassess itself in light of the importance of its developing country...
Anderton, Bob, Brenton, Paul, Oscarsson, Eva.
This paper seeks to identify the contribution of trade and technological change to the increase in inequality between skilled and unskilled workers in Sweden since the 1970s. An empirical approach is...
This paper discusses arguments in favour of trade restrictions in the EU as a response to globalisation. Its economic analysis unequivocally shows that trade and capital restrictions are not an...
Brenton, Paul, Pinna, Anna Maria, Vancauteren, Mark.
In this study of the footwear sector we seek to assess how producers in different EU countries have adjusted to increased competition from low-wage countries. There are a number of features of the...
EU trade policies and the environment in which they are determined are now considerably different from when the EU came into being in the 1950s. With the exceptions of agriculture and textiles and...
Brenton, Paul, Sheehy, John, Vancauteren, Mark.
With trade in industrial products between the EU and the CEECs now essentially free of tariff and non-tariff restrictions, the principal impact of accession to the EU on trade flows will be through...
Brenton, Paul, Pinna, Anna Maria.
We consider more carefully the evidence from traded prices (as proxied by unit values) concerning the transmission of the effects of globalisation to domestic labour markets. Using standard index...
Outsourcing and low-skilled workers in the UK (1998)
This paper investigates the impact of ‘outsourcing’ on the relative wages and employment of the low-skilled in the UK. In contrast to previous studies which proxy outsourcing by imports from all...
Outsourcing and Low-Skilled Workers in the UK
This paper investigates the impact of ?outsourcing? on the relative wages and employment of the low-skilled in the UK. In contrast to previous studies which proxy outsourcing by imports from all...
The African Growth and Opportunity Act, exports, and development in Sub-Saharan Africa
The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is the flagship of U.S. commercial and development policy with Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper looks at the impact of the trade preferences that are the...
Watching more than the Discovery channel : export cycles and diversification in development
Brenton, Paul, Newfarmer, Richard
This paper examines the export performance of 99 countries over 1995-2004 to understand the relative roles of export growth through"discovery"of new products and growth during post-discovery phases...
Trade preferences are a key element in industrial countries'efforts to assist the integration of least developed countries (LDCs) into the world economy. Brenton provides an initial evaluation of the...
Brenton, Paul, Ikezuki, Takako
The ability to export clothing products under preferences with liberal rules of origin is the key factor currently determining whether the African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) has a significant...
Trade costs, export development, and poverty in Rwanda
Diop, Ndiame, Brenton, Paul, Asarkaya, Yakup
For Rwanda, one of the poorest countries in the world, trade offers the most effective route for substantial poverty reduction. But the poor in Rwanda, most of whom are subsistence farmers in rural...
Clothing and export diversification : still a route to growth for low-income countries ?
Can the clothing sector be a driver of export diversification and growth for today's low-income countries as it was in the past for countries that have graduated into middle income? This paper...
Paul Brenton, Francesca Di Mauro, Matthias Lücke
Foreign direct investment, transition economies, gravity model,
Outsourcing and Low-Skilled Workers in the UK.
Outsourcing is proxied by constructing import penetration terms for groups of countries (distinguishing between imports from industrialized countries and imports from low-wage countries) for each...
Non-tariff Barriers and Rationing: UK Footwear Imports
Brenton, Paul, Winters, L Alan
The imposition of a quantitative restriction on imports implies that someone somewhere is quantity-rationed. If prices rise to cut demand back to the constraint level, suppliers are rationed; if not,...
Making EU Trade Agreements Work: The Role of Rules of Origin
A key element of the EU’s free trade and preferential trade agreements is the extent to which they deliver improved market access and so contribute to the EUs foreign policy objectives towards...
Voluntary Export Restraints: UK Restrictions on Imports of Leather Footwear from Eastern Europe
Brenton, Paul, Winters, L Alan
A prominent feature of international trading relations since 1970 has been the spread of quantitative restrictions on imports. This paper describes initial work to quantify and assess the economic...
Estimates of Bilateral Trade Elasticities and Their Implications for the Modelling of `1992'
Brenton, Paul, Winters, L Alan
In this paper we use detailed trade and production data and a theoretically consistent model of demand - the Almost Ideal Demand System - to estimate bilateral trade elasticities, the key parameters...
Trade Reorientation and Recovery in Transition Economies.
How do we define transition and when can we say that transition to a market economy is complete? Here we suggest that one way of addressing this issue is to analyse current economic data and ask...
The potential trade effects of an FTA between the EU and Russia
Paul Brenton, Natalia Tourdyeva, John Whalley
F15, F14,
Paul Brenton, Daniel Gros, Axel Schimmelpfennig, Andreas Gröhn, Richard Promfret, Sung-Hoon Park, ...
What’s trade got to do with it? Relative demand for skills within Swedish manufacturing
Robert Anderton, Paul Brenton, Eva Oscarsson
F160, J31, O33,
Economic partnership agreements and the export competitiveness of Africa
Brenton, Paul, Hoppe, Mombert, Newfarmer, Richard
Trade can be a key driver of growth for African countries, as it has been for those countries, particularly in East Asia, that have experienced high and sustained rates of growth. Economic...
Carbon Labelling and Low Income Country Exports: An Issues Paper
Brenton, Paul, Edwards-Jones, Gareth, Jensen, Michael
In response to growing concerns over climate change, consumers and firms in developed countries are considering their carbon footprint. Carbon labelling is being explored as a mechanism for...
Assessing the economic impacts of an economic partnership agreement on Nigeria
Andriamananjara, Soamiely, Brenton, Paul, Von Uexkull, Jan Erik, Walkenhorst, Peter
This study discusses potential economic implications for Nigeria of an Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union. It uses the World Bank’s Tariff Reform Impact Simulation Tool to...
Carbon Labelling and Low-income Country Exports: A Review of the Development Issues
Paul Brenton, Gareth Edwards-Jones, Michael Friis Jensen
This article discusses the carbon accounting and carbon-labelling schemes being developed to address growing concerns over climate change. Its particular concern is their impact on small...
What explains the low survival rate of developing country export flows ?
Brenton, Paul, Saborowski, Christian, Von Uexkull, Erik
Successful export growth and diversification require not only entry into new export products and markets, but also the survival and growth of export flows. This paper uses a detailed, cross-country...
Product specific technical assistance for exports - has it been effective?
Paul Brenton, Erik Von Uexkull
The international community is placing increasing emphasis on aid for trade to assist low income countries to integrate into the global economy and to address their domestic constraints to export...
Brenton, Paul, Saborowski, Christian, Staritz, Cornelia, Von Uexkull, Erik
TRIST is a simple, easy to use tool to assess the adjustment implications of trade reform. It improves on existing tools. First, it is an improvement in terms of accuracy because projections are...
Output decline and recovery in the transiton economies: causes and social consequences
Paul Brenton, Daniel Gros, Guy Vanadille
This paper suggests that output in the transition economies of eastern Europe and the countries of the former Soviet Union is related to, firstly, macroeconomic stabilization, and secondly, the speed...