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The establishment of the currently negotiated Free Trade Agreement (FTA) between EU and Ukraine is the next significant … developing countries face some costs associated with trade liberalization, this paper contributes to the literature by analyzing … trade liberalization, as the results vary significantly across the scenarios. In general, we find that tariff elimination …
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Africa (SSA). Data from 19 exporter countries was used together with communication costs data in a gravity model of trade … setup. The export data derive from the IMF Direction of Trade and the COMTRADE databases, while the communication cost data … an important factor in bilateral trade in the region. Communications have a significant negative effect on export …
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Low levels of infrastructure quality and quantity can create trade impediments through increased transport costs. Since … the late 1990s an increasing number of trade studies have taken infrastructure into account. The purpose of the present … paper is to quantify the importance of infrastructure for trade by means of meta-analysis and meta-regression techniques …
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This paper argues that three major issues need to be addressed when examining the effects of the WTO's TRIPs agreement on capability building in developing economies. First, the agreement looks at seven instruments, which have both common as well as differing implications for capability building...
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has been raised and competition and international trade in the environment industry has expanded. There is now a clear … North/South dimension to international patterns of development of the industry and its trade. Whilst environment industries …
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The Agreement on Trade Related Aspects on Intellectual Property Rights, 1995, has introduced several mandatory changes …
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trade and FDI are found to have significant impact on the upsurge of labour productivity growth in BRICS, where the …
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of trade and financial openness. Using a large crosssection of 91 countries covering the period 1985-2004, we establish … two main empirical regularities. Both higher trade and financial openness i) reduce central bank?s inflation bias …
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This paper makes two contributions to the literature on the impact of trade on income. First, we use heterogeneous … trade on income for 81 developed and developing countries, both for the sample as a whole and for each individual country …. Second, we use a general-to-specific variable selection approach to identify important determinants of the effect of trade on …
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In the trade-technology-wage debate, the effects of the various forms of technical progress on relative factor prices …, which allows for any discrete number of sectors and countries integrated via trade flows. Technologies are country- and …
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