TY  - BOOK
AU  - Cashin,Paul
AU  - Haines,Cleary
AU  - Mlachila,Montfort
TI  - Caribbean Bananas: The Macroeconomic Impact of Trade Preference Erosion 
T2  - IMF Working Papers; Working Paper
SN  - 1451963793 :
SN  - 1018-5941
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Washington, D.C.
PB  - International Monetary Fund
KW  - Country and Industry Studies of Trade
KW  - imf
KW  - Exporters
KW  - Preference Erosion
KW  - Preferential Trade Arrangements
KW  - Saint Lucia
KW  - Saint Vincent and the Grenadines
N2  - This paper examines the macroeconomic effects of the erosion of trade preferences, with a focus on the export of Caribbean bananas to Europe. Estimates are made of the magnitude of implicit assistance provided over a period of three decades to eastern Caribbean countries through banana trade preferences. The value of such assistance rose until the early 1990s, and has declined precipitously since then. Using vector autoregressive analysis, the paper finds that changes in the level of implicit assistance have had a considerable macroeconomic impact, especially on Caribbean real GDP growth
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