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Jordan and the WTO Government Procurement Agreement: An Economic Impact Assessment

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  • Lord, Montague

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Provides the following analysis: (a) identifies the top goods and services purchased by the GOJ in 1999 and 2000, from which a sample has been drawn for the analysis; (b) determines the origin of the goods and services on the basis of domestic versus foreign providers; (c) based on input/output tables, derives the costs of domestic production that include the associated levels of protection and compare those costs with the free trade costs, or border price of inputs; (d) estimates the effective rates of protection for the selected goods and services; (e) estimates the impact of liberalization on the demand for the selected goods and services; and from the empirical results, draws conclusions on the effects of the GPA on specific industries.

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  • Lord, Montague, 2002. "Jordan and the WTO Government Procurement Agreement: An Economic Impact Assessment," MPRA Paper 41172, University Library of Munich, Germany.
    • Handle: RePEc:pra:mprapa:41172
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    Keywords

    Jordan; WTO General Procurement Agreement; impact analysis;
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    JEL classification:

    • F4 - International Economics - - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance
    • R1 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics
    • F13 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Policy; International Trade Organizations
    • F17 - International Economics - - Trade - - - Trade Forecasting and Simulation
    • R12 - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics - - General Regional Economics - - - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity; Interregional Trade (economic geography)

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