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A shortage of medical personnel has become a critical problem for developing countries attempting to expand the provision of medical services for the poor. In order to highlight the driving forces determining the international allocation of medical personnel, the cases of four countries, namely...
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Easing of economic sanctions by Western countries in 2012 augmented the prospect that Myanmar will expand its exports …. On the other hand, a sharp rise in natural resource exports during the sanctions brings in a concern about the "Dutch … model that takes into account the effects of natural resource exports on non-resource exports. Without taking into account …
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(FTAs) on ASEAN-Korea FTA/ASEAN-China FTA utilization in Thai exports in 2011. Our careful empirical analysis suggests that …
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modes of supply, including exports, horizontal and vertical FDI, horizontal and vertical export platform FDI. The theory … exports of US FDI, and an econometric analysis, whose results are in line with the model’s predictions. The last section …
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The rules governing the trade of goods in global markets have shifted toward non-tariff measures related to environmental and chemical safety. Unlike traditional environmental/safety requirements, the scope of modern regulations covers products’ environmental performance and chemical...
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market (AGOA) resulting from the turmoil had a greater impact on exports, 64%–78% reduction, than the turmoil itself. Our …
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This study focuses on the technological intensity of China's exports. It first introduces the method of decomposing … gross exports by using the Asian international input–output tables. The empirical results indicate that the technological … intensity of Chinese exports has been significantly overestimated due to its high dependency on import content, especially in …
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For manufacturing firms in developing countries, there are high barriers to entry and to catching up with competitors in their global production networks (GPNs). This paper examines the case of a Mexican auto-parts manufacturer that succeeded in catching up in the automotive GPN. The author...
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This paper investigates the impact of trade barriers such as customs clearance, subjective trade obstacles (customs and trade regulations), and inventory of inputs on the internationalization of enterprises in Southeast Asia and Latin America, using the World Bank's enterprise surveys. Empirical...
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International politics affects oil trade. But does it affect the oil-exporting developing countries more? We construct a firm-level dataset for all U.S. oil-importing companies over 1986-2008 to examine how these firms respond to changes in "political distance" between the U.S. and her trading...
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