Domestic Reforms to Expand Trade

August 13, 2015

Villagers carrying harvest to market in Ethiopia. It’s difficult to trade globally without an efficient local transportation network (xPACIFICA/Corbis)
- Domestic Reforms to Expand Trade
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World trade has slowed in the past decade. Professor Douglas Irwin says countries need to shift from focusing on trade barriers at borders, to domestic reforms that would help entrepreneurs get their goods to port cities for export.
Douglas Irwin is Professor in the Department of Economics at Dartmouth College, and Associate of the National Bureau of Economic Research

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