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This handbook issued by the IMF is primarily intended for users of the IMF's direction of trade database. The guide describes the collection, compilation, and dessemination of statistics on exports and imports by partner country. National compilers of statistics on trade by country may also...
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Diversification of the GCC economies, supported by greater openness to trade and higher foreign investment, can have a … foreign ownership of businesses and real estate. The growth impact of closing export and FDI gaps could be significant. In … non-oil per capita GDP growth. Closing export gaps could provide an additional growth dividend in the range of 0 …
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volatility. Greater economic diversification would unlock job-creating growth, increase resilience to oil price volatility and … key prerequisites for economic diversification …
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a country's production and export structure. This can include diversification into new products and trading partners as …Diversification and structural transformation play important roles in influencing the macroeconomic performance of low …
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This paper investigates the impact of long-run terms-of-trade shocks. Analytically, we show that, if capital goods are largely importable or the labor supply is sufficiently elastic, then natural-resource booms increase aggregate investment and worsen the current account, but Dutch ‘Disease’...
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In the literature on exports and investment, most productive firms are seen to invest abroad. In the Helpman et al. (2004) model, costs of transportation play a critical role in the decision about whether to serve foreign customers by exporting, or by producing abroad. We consider the case of...
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