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State of the Economy and Prospects: chapter 1
Mukherjee, Pranab - eSocialSciences - 2012
Economic Survey-Chapter1. [Economic Survey]. URL:[http://indiabudget.nic.in/survey.asp]
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010534928
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Seasonal Migration and Risk Aversion
Bryan, Gharad; Chowdhury, Shyamal; Mobarak, A. Mushfiq - eSocialSciences - 2011
Pre-harvest lean seasons are widespread in the agrarian areas of Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. Every year, these seasonal famines force millions of people to succumb to poverty and hunger. An incentive of $8.50 is assigned to households in Bangladesh to out-migrate during the lean season, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009399611
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Free Trade Agreement between People’s Republic of China and India: Likely Impact and Its Implications to Asian Economic Community
Bhattacharyay, Biswa N; Bhattacharya, Swapan K. - eSocialSciences - 2010
Open regionalism and trade cooperation between the world’s two largest developing countries, the People’s Republic … of China (PRC) and India, can foster outward-oriented development and intra-regional trade based on comparative advantage … and available factor endowments. In view of the recent wave of worldwide subregional and bilateral trade cooperation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008751874
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On the Political Economy of High Skilled Migration and International Trade
Bougheas, Spiros; Nelson, Doug - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …
We develop a two-country, two-sector model with a continuum of workers to address the link between migration and trade … free trade areas more likely to support full integration than states without free trade? Second, is trade liberalization … more likely to be supported by a simultaneous referendum on trade and migration than in one on trade alone? The key to our …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610382
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The Internet and International Trade in Goods
Timmis, Jonathan - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …
Previous studies by Freund & Weinhold (2004) and others have highlighted the trade promoting effect of the Internet … resistance. We employ a gravity framework to assess the role of Internet adoption on trade within OECD countries over the period … 1990-2010. We find that when multilateral resistance is controlled for, the Internet has a less clear cut effect on trade …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010610391
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Competitiveness and Specialisation of the Austrian Export Sector. A Constant-Market-Shares Analysis
Skriner, Edith - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 2009
track all changes in the trade structure and competitiveness over time. The long-term trend of the indicators suggests that … the Austrian foreign trade sector was able to maintain its market share in the global environment. While the Austrian … foreign trade performance only slightly deviates from the pattern of the traditional industrialised countries, a strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005764168
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A Combined Ricardian and Heckscher-Ohlin Model of Comparative Advantage
Leamer, Edward E. - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 1995
The Heckscher-Ohlin theory and the Ricardian theory of international commerce traditionally have been treated as separate conceptual frameworks, but a growing body of empirical work is relying on both simultaneously and calls for an integrated theory. This paper combines the Heckscher-Ohlin...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005764229
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Capital and Goods Market Integration and the Inequality of Nations
Wagner, Martin - Department of Economics and Finance Research and … - 1999
A 2-country model with two groups of agents, workers and capitalists is presented in which economic integration results in an initial phase of catch-up, where the less industrialised country experiences the rise in both capital and labour income. Then, after a certain level of integration has...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005764245
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On The Pollution Content of China’s Trade: Clearing the Air?
Milner, Chris; Xu, Fangya - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …
This study compares alternative measures of the potential and actual pollution content of China’s trade using an … were produced locally in China. A less positive, assessment of the environmental impact of China’s trade emerges, however …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008544194
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Regional Heterogeneity and China’s International Trade: Sufficient Lumpiness or Not?
Lu, Meng; Milner, Chris; Yu, Zhihong - Leverhulme Centre for Research on Globalisation and …
and skills) of the regions of China to affect China’s specialization and trade patterns. It does so using both the lens … condition to identify the violation of factor price equalization across regions, and direct evidence on regional trade and … sufficiently lumpy as recently as 2004 to affect it pattern of international trade. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008544198