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WTO negotiations and accession issues for vulnerable economies
Langhammer, Rolf J.; Lücke, Matthias - 2000
The paper discusses the costs and benefits to be expected by least-developed and low-income ("vulnerable") economies if they accede to the WTO, the impact of current debates about WTO reform on vulnerable economies, and measures to make it easier for vulnerable economies to accede to and...
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The new economy and the international regulatory framework
Piazolo, Daniel - 2001
The rapid diffusion of the internet and electronic commerce changes the way business and international trade take place. The new economy poses new challenges to the international regulatory framework, since small distortions due to differing sets of regulations and taxation between countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011474230
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Why economic growth trends differ so much across developing countries : the globalization debate and its relevance to Pakistan
Nunnenkamp, Peter - 2002
The claim of globalization critics that the income gap to industrial countries is bound to widen for essentially all … developing countries as a consequence of economic globalization is in conflict with empirical evidence. Economic performance … and foreign indebtedness which may explain the varying experience with globalization in regard to per capita income growth …
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Openness and economic growth in developing countries
Gundlach, Erich - 1996
Openness appears to have a strong impact on economic growth especially in DCs, which typically exhibit a high share of physical capital in factor income and a low share of labor. In the neoclassical growth model with partial capital mobility, physical capital's share in factor income determines...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472082
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Globalization of the world economy : what happened in 1985?
Kleinert, Jörn - 2000
This paper brings forward a three-country model to analyze the internationalization process in the age of globalization …
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The cost of EU trade protection in textiles and clothing
Francois, Joseph F.; Glismann, Hans H.; Spinanger, Dean - 2000
This paper estimates the costs of EU restraints on trade in textiles and clothing. After explaining the methods used, we examine the impact of an opening up of EU trade in textiles and clothing, inter alia to those economies where the textile and clothing (T&C) industries command sizeable shares...
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Service trade liberalization as a handmaiden of competitiveness in manufacturing : an industrialized or developing country issue?
Langhammer, Rolf J. (contributor) - 2006
This paper discusses the issue whether developing countries forego chances in world manufactured markets by protecting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003370335
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Second thoughts on development accounting
Gundlach, Erich; Rudman, Desmond; Woessmann, Ludger - 1998
We estimate the relative roles of factor inputs and productivity in explaining the level of economic development, which is measured as output per worker. For a large sample of countries, we show that alternative identifying productivity assumptions and alternative measures of human capital have...
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Climatic conditions, cultural diversity, and labor productivity
Gundlach, Erich; Matus-Velasco, Ximena - 2000
Countries with the highest labor productivity overwhelmingly lie in the world's temperate climatic zones far away from …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011490509
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The German economy and EU industrial tariff reductions : partial and CGE analyses of a stillborn Millennium Round
Francois, Joseph F.; Glismann, Hans H.; Spinanger, Dean - 2000
the world's trading system. This paper deals with the impact on the German economy of some changes that might have been …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011472473