manufacturing and pre-existing trade links with China and India help advanced countries to maximise the growth dividend resulting …

Whether or not international trade exposes workers to economic insecurity depends on the nature of the trade exposure …

. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services … remains limited. We investigate this proposition by deriving a gravity-like equation for service trade and estimating it for a … large sample of countries and different categories of service trade. We find that distance costs are high but are declining …

manufacturing and pre-existing trade links with China and India help advanced countries to maximise the growth dividend resulting …

. Service trade, however, like goods trade, is subject to strong distance effects, implying that the remote supply of services … remains limited. We investigate this proposition by deriving a gravity-like equation for service trade and estimating it for a … large sample of countries and different categories of service trade. We find that distance costs are high but are declining …

The majority of independent nations today were part of empires in 1945. Using bilateral trade data from 1948 to 2006 …, we examine the effect of independence on post-colonial trade. On average, there is little short run effect of trade with … the colonizer (metropole). However, after three decades trade declines more than 60%. We also find that trade between …