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"Economists have influenced the trade policy agenda for establishing multilateral trade rules, disciplines, and procedures, and for negotiating most-favored nation and preferential reduction sin trade barriers and subsidies, in addition to affecting the agenda for unilateral policy reform. These roles re considered in turn, before focusing on the economists' contribution through quantifying the extent and effects of existing trade distortions and alternative reform initiatives. Many trade distortions remain, however, so the author looks at where trade economists' efforts in agenda-setting need to be focuses in the years ahead."-World Bank web site.

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