Rationale for Market Access analysis
Despite successive rounds of multilateral, regional, and unilateral trade liberalization, some trade barriers (including tariffs) remain highly restrictive in many (both developed and developing) countries.
For any government, it is crucial to be able to assess or to pre-empt the impact of different trade policy options. Market access analysis is a very useful tool that can be used to anticipate the likely economic effects of various policy alternatives.
The market access analysis tool included in the WITS package allows the researcher to investigate the impact of unilateral/preferential/multilateral trade reforms at home or abroad on various variables including:
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