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Lowering trade barriers even more could double average incomes in the poorest parts of the world over the next 15 years.
In many cases, the answer appears to be related to barriers to housing construction.
But the barriers may also be political.
Defensive barriers would not necessarily require heavy investment; they could be mounds of sand several meters high located along and near the shoreline.
For one such area, New York City, an alternative has been proposed: massive storm-surge barriers across the entrance to the harbor region that could be closed when a major storm approaches.
As tariff barriers have come down, the unfair "fair trade" laws are increasingly being used as America's favored protectionist tool.
China lowered trade barriers and offered soft loans and investments to help its southern neighbours.
But when it comes to non-tariff barriers, China’s record also does not seem as problematic as is claimed.
To be sure, it is difficult to measure the overall importance of non-tariff barriers to trade, because they can take so many forms.
In short, even if China’s non-tariff barriers (both formal and informal) remain high, they are lower than in the past.
When Western companies had a near-monopoly on know-how and technology, their competitive edge more than compensated for distortions created by Chinese barriers to trade and investment.
But, as Chinese enterprises have become increasingly serious competitors in their own right, Western countries’ capacity to bear the extra costs of non-tariff barriers has diminished.
The real question for China lies at home: Do enduring distortions and barriers to investment really serve the development of the country’s lagging provinces?
In fact, Li’s leadership of the NPC may turn out to be the key to dismantling one of the last barriers to Xi’s political ambitions: the two-term limit for presidents, established in the constitution.
Unless governments build leak-proof barriers around their countries – and the costs would likely be prohibitive – an implicit world market would be re-established.
With average tariff rates at negligible levels (below 3% for both the US and the EU), who would support a push for higher barriers?
The Trump administration is pressuring China to address intellectual-property theft and to reduce non-tariff barriers (such as joint-venture requirements).
With formal barriers to trade and capital flows lowered, several trends combined to accelerate growth and structural change in post-colonial and other developing economies.
Lack of funding, bureaucracies so complicated that even purchasing a used computer is problematic, hierarchies that hamper the joy of curiosity and creativity: all of these barriers confront European scientists and are responsible for inciting today's "brain drain" to America.
Indeed, fences and barriers in Russia are usually built where there should be a footpath.
Latin America sharply reduced its trade barriers and privatized its state-owned firms.
Many countries, including Italy and Spain, must overcome structural barriers to competitiveness, growth, and job creation through multi-year reforms of labor markets, pensions, housing, and economic governance.
Another promising approach is exemplified by Johannesburg’s Vulindlel’ eJozi program, which aims to eliminate barriers to entry-level employment for young people by providing skills like digital literacy.
Trade barriers are up.
At Fukushima, a perfect storm – a massive earthquake and tsunami, multiple vulnerable coastal reactors with spent-fuel ponds in the same buildings, inadequate barriers, loss of power, and back-up generators situated too low – may have seemed a remote possibility.
But its representatives missed a golden opportunity when US President Donald Trump, who might as well have written the chaos playbook, offered an alternative to the trade wars he himself launched: the complete dismantling of tariff barriers.
As it stands, tariff barriers are not particularly high: the weighted mean tariff for all US and EU products is just 1.6%.
Now, as governments erect barriers and reinstate border controls, the refugee crisis is disrupting flows of people and gumming up trade.
Re-erecting barriers to capital flows in the form of international taxes, thereby cordoning off crises before they turn global, is therefore another task for government.
This should boost India's per capita income;2. old social barriers to education for girls and lower castes are giving way, under democratic pressures, to strong calls for universal education.
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