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

Lord, Montague (2002): Jordan and the WTO Government Procurement Agreement: An Economic Impact Assessment.

Abstract

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.

• Item Type: MPRA Paper
• Language: English
• Keywords: Jordan; WTO General Procurement Agreement; impact analysis
• Subjects: F - International Economics > F4 - Macroeconomic Aspects of International Trade and Finance; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics; F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F13 - Trade Policy ; International Trade Organizations; F - International Economics > F1 - Trade > F17 - Trade Forecasting and Simulation; R - Urban, Rural, Regional, Real Estate, and Transportation Economics > R1 - General Regional Economics > R12 - Size and Spatial Distributions of Regional Economic Activity

References

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