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Regional trade policy options for Tanzania : the importance of services commitments

Author:	Jensen, Jesper; Tarr, David G.;	Collection Title:	Policy Research working paper ; no. WPS 5481
Country:	Tanzania;	Date Stored:	2010/11/17
Document Date:	2010/11/01	Document Type:	Policy Research Working Paper
Language:	English	Region:	Africa
Report Number:	WPS5481	SubTopics:	Environmental Economics & Policies; Transport Economics Policy & Planning; Economic Theory & Research; Emerging Markets; Banks & Banking Reform
Volume No:	1 of 1

Summary: Despite the growing importance of commitments to foreign investors in services in regional trade agreements, there are no applied general equilibrium models in the literature that assess these regional impacts. This paper develops a 52 sector applied general equilibrium model of Tanzania with foreign direct investment, and uses that model to assess Tanzania's regional and multilateral trade options. The model incorporates the features of the modern theory of international trade that has shown empirically that trade and foreign direct investment can increase productivity, and trade and foreign direct investment with technologically advanced countries is especially valuable for that purpose. To assess the sensitivity of the results to parameter values, the model is executed 30,000 times, and the results are reported as confidence intervals of the sample distributions. The analysis finds that a 50 percent preferential reduction in the ad valorem equivalents of barriers in all business services by Tanzania with respect to its African regional partners would be slightly beneficial for Tanzania. But wider liberalization, with larger partners or multilaterally, it will yield much larger gains due to providing access to a much wider set of service providers. Finally, the results show that the largest gains in services would be derived from reduction of regulatory barriers that are geographically non-discriminatory.


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