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Xavier Cirera - Research Fellow

Globalisation
T: +44 (0)1273 915702
E: x.cirera@ids.ac.uk

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Administrator:
Stacey Townsend

Thematic Expertise:
Agriculture; BRICS and Rising Powers; Business; Economy and Finance; Trade and Growth.

Geographic Expertise:
Sub Saharan Africa; Brazil; Mozambique.

Xavier Cirera is a trade economist with an interest in the impact of trade reform, trade preferences and regional integration. He has extensive experience working in Southern and Eastern Africa and Brazil.

His recent research focuses on three main areas of trade and development: the impact of different regional and preferential trade agreements, such as GSP and EPAs; firm level analysis of the determinants of export diversification and the impact of trade reform and trade exposure on firm level productivity; and, the impact of emerging powers in Africa.

Other interests include the analysis of spatial price variations and the functioning of rural markets, the impact of trade on income distribution and the impact of income distribution on future food demand.

Development Studies Learning Partnership
The Development Studies Learning Partnership under the BRICS Initiative in 2011, enables collaborative learning between traditional and emerging actors in development, be they academics, researchers, practitioners or policy-makers.

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Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) Review
A general review of the negotiating process and costs of EPAs and their impact on development.

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Firm Behaviour and the Introduction of New Products: Evidence using a Firm Micro Data Set in Brazil
The objective of this research is to contribute to the understanding of one of the most important processes required for achieving sustained economic growth in emerging and developing countries: the process of product and export diversification.

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Income Distribution and Food Demand
This review will produce a state-of-the-art paper on the link between food demand and income distribution.

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Revenue Impact Analysis of Angola's Integration into the SADC Free Trade Area
This study aimed to forecast the effects of Angola's integration into the SADC Free Trade Area and into a full SADC Customs Union on the country's indirect tax revenue.

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Review of the Generalised System of Preferences (GSP)
This project reviews the effectiveness of the EU Generalised System of Preferences (GSP) at fostering exports from developing countries to the EU.

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Rising Powers in International Development
Poverty reduction in low-income countries is increasingly influenced by the Rising Powers, a category that includes the BRICS grouping of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa, as well as regional powers such as Mexico and Indonesia.

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Systematic Review of Private Participation in Infrastructure

The purpose of this review is to inform Development Finance Institution (DFI) policy so as to improve the development outcomes resulting from their engagement in the infrastructure sectors of low income countries.

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The Level of Sophistication and Technological Content of African Exports. Does Africa Benefit from South-South Trade?

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Updating Economic Partnership Agreements to Today's Global Challenges
This project contributed to a critical review of Economic Partnership Agreements.

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Voices of the Vulnerable
IDS were commissioned by the UN to carry out background research to produce the UN Secretary-General's second report on the impacts of the ongoing economic crisis on vulnerable populations in developing countries.

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What are the Effects of Free Trade Zones on Employment and Wages?

Systematic review funded by 3ie to look at the existing evidence on what the effects of free trade zones on employment and wages

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What is the Evidence of the Impact of Tariff Reductions on Employment and Fiscal Revenue in Developing Countries?

The team intends to address the question 'What is the evidence of the impacts of new trade deals on fiscal revenues and job creation in low-income countries?

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What is Business and Development? An Annotated Bibliography

 IDS Evidence Report 4 (2013)
Yeganeh, M., Velasco Herrejon, P., Watson, N., Spratt, S. and Cirera, X.

The Determinants of Outward Processing: Evidence from Offshoring Intermediates by the European Union

 No 54-2013 (2013)
Petropoulou, D., Cirera, X. and Willenbockel, D.

Firm Behaviour and the Introduction of New Exports: Evidence from Brazil

 IDS Working Paper 390 (2012)
Cirera, X., Marin, A. and Markwald, R.

Achieving Export Diversification: Lessons from Brazil

 IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 21 (2012)
Cirera, X.

The Impact of Trade Preferences on Export Prices in the European Union – Who Captures the Preference Rent?

 15 (2011)
Cirera, X.

Firm Behaviour and the Introduction of New exports: Evidence from Brazil

 (2011)
Cirera, X., Marin, A. and Markwald, R.

The Impact of GSP on Developing Country Exports to the EU

 (2011)
Cirera, X., Foliano, F. and Gasiorek, M.

The Determinants of Outward Processing Exports in the European Union

 (2011)
Cirera, X. and Willenbockel, D.

The Level of Sophistication and Technological Content of African Exports. Does Africa Benefit from South-South trade?

 (2011)
Cirera, X. and Markwald, R.

What is the Evidence of the Impact of Tariff Reductions on Employment and Fiscal Revenue in Developing Countries?

 (2011)
Cirera, X., Willenbockel, D. and Lakshman, R.

Mid-term Evaluation of the EU’s Generalised System of Preferences

 (2010)
CARIS

Income Distribution Trends and Future Food Demand

 Biological Sciences 365.1554 (2010)
Cirera, X. and Masset, E.

Can the Economic Partnership Agreements (EPAs) Become a Useful Tool for Export Diversification?

 In 'Updating Economic Partnership Agreements to Today's Global Challenges - Essays on the Future of Economic Partnership Agreements' (2009)
Jones, E. and Marti, D.F.

Changing the Aid for Trade Debate towards Content

 IDS In Focus Policy Briefing 6 (2009)
Cirera, X.

Mozambique and Regional Integration

 In 'Taxation in a Low-Income Economy - The Case of Mozambique' (2009)
Arndt, C. and Tarp, F.

Transmission of Prices from the Border to Domestic Markets

 In 'Taxation in a Low-Income Economy - The Case of Mozambique' (2009)
Arndt, C. and Tarp, F.

Revenue Impact Analysis of Angola's Integration into the SADC Free Trade Area

 (2008)
Cirera, X. and Willenbockel, D.

Measuring the Impact of Road Rehabilitation on Spatial Market Efficiency in Maize Markets in Mozambique

 Agricultural Economics 39.1 (2008)
Cirera, X. and Arndt, C.

Unilateral Trade Preferences in the EU: An Empirical Assessment for the Case of Mozambican Exports

 DNEAP Discussion Paper 60E (2008)
Alfieri, A. and Cirera, X.

Measuring Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Mozambique

 In 'Distortions to Agricultural Incentives in Africa' (2008)
Anderson, K. and Masters, W.
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