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Trade And Structural Adjustment Policies In Selected Developing Countries

Andersson, Jens; Bonaglia, Federico; Fukasaku, Kiichiro; … - EconWPA - 2005

The experience of the five examined industries (agro-food in Chile, cut flowers in Kenya,garment in Lesotho and in Mauritius and seafood in Thailand) demonstrates that non-traditional industries can emerge and achieved strong growth rates in very diverse settings in terms of geography and...

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EXPORT DIVERSIFICATION IN LOW-INCOME COUNTRIES: AN INTERNATIONAL CHALLENGE AFTER DOHA

Bonaglia, Federico; Fukasaku, Kichiro - EconWPA - 2003

This paper discusses major policy issues related to commodity dependence and export diversification in low-income countries. Contrary to some widely-held view, it argues that natural resources are not necessarily a ‘curse’ that condemns low-income countries to underdevelopment but can...

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Relationship Specificity, Incomplete Contracts and the Pattern of Trade

Nunn, Nathan - EconWPA - 2005

When relationship-specific investments are necessary for production, under-investment occurs if contracts cannot be enforced. The efficiency loss from under-investment will differ across industries depending on the importance of relationship-specific investments in the production process. As a...

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Accession Countries’ Comparative Advantage in the Internal

Kaitila, Ville - EconWPA - 2002

We analyse trade between Central and Eastern European (CEE) countries and the European Union during 1993-1998 using three methods. First, we calculate the share of intra-industry trade to determine the ex-tent to which two countries trade in similar products. Second, we calculate similarity...

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To Offshore or Nearshore IT services? An investigation using transaction cost theory

Trampel, Julia - EconWPA - 2004

The phenomenon of offshoring, that is, the outsourcing of highly- qualified services into low wage countries was until … the controversial issue of the advantageousness of offshoring. The trend, which has been enforced by numerous consultants … validity. The following paper deals with the advantageousness of offshoring in the case of IT services. In order to detach …

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Birth Spacing and Child Survival: Comparative Evidence from India and Pakistan

Maitra, Pushkar; Pal, Sarmistha - EconWPA - 2004

This paper examines the two-way relationship between birth interval and child survival and compares the behaviour of households in the Indian and Pakistani provinces of Punjab. Birth interval and child survival are modelled here as correlated hazard processes, allowing for mother- specific...

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After the "License Raj": Economic Liberalization and Aggregate Private Investment in India

Emran, M. Shahe; Alam, M. Imam; Shilpi, Forhad - EconWPA - 2003

theoretically consistent manner, this paper presents evidence on the effects of economic liberalization of 1991 in India. Two robust …

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Labor Conflict and Foreign Investments: An Analysis of FDI in India

Menon, Nidhiya; Sanyal, Paroma - EconWPA - 2005

This paper analyzes patterns of foreign direct investment in India. We investigate how labor conflict, credit … decisions and labor unrest simultaneously. Results indicate that labor unrest is endogenous across the states of India, and has …

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Sustainability of Services-Led Growth: An Input Output Exploration of the Indian Economy

Hansda, Sanjay - EconWPA - 2005

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Technology as a channel of economic growth in India

Chakraborty, Suparna - EconWPA - 2005

for observed ‡uctuations in macro economic aggregates in India. We find that exogenous fl‡uctuations in productivity can …

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