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Household migration decisions as survival strategy : the case of Burkina Faso
Konseiga, Adama (contributor) - 2005
The paper examines the motivations behind the important migration from Burkina Faso to Côte d'Ivoire, the economic pole in the West African Economic and Monetary Union. The paper uses a detailed household survey dataset on migration, natural resource management, risk management and solidarity...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003158650
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Globalisation, inequality and poverty relationships : a cross country evidence
Neutel, Marcel (contributor); Heshmati, Almas (contributor) - 2006
In this research, the relationship between globalisation and poverty and income inequality is determined. A whole new globalisation index has been constructed based on data covering a large sample of 65 developing countries. The index is based on the globalisation index proposed by A.T. Kearney...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355554
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Towards a unifying approach of the 'new economic geography'
Pflüger, Michael (contributor); Südekum, Jens (contributor) - 2006
, the bifurcation pattern and the welfare properties of the market equilibrium. Moreover, an application of this framework …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003355651
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Middlemen, non-profits, and poverty
Chau, Nancy H.; Goto, Hideaki; Kanbur, Ravi - 2009
In many markets in developing countries, especially in remote areas, middlemen are thought to earn excessive profits. Non-profits come in to counter what is seen as middlemen's market power, and rich country consumers pay a "fair-trade" premium for products marketed by such non-profits. This...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003897511
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Intra-industry adjustment to import competition : theory and application to the German clothing industry
Raff, Horst; Wagner, Joachim - 2009
This paper uses an oligopoly model with heterogeneous firms to examine how an industry adjusts to rising import competition. The model predicts that in the short run the least efficient firms in the industry become inactive, surviving firms face a fall in output, mark-ups and profits, and the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003900012
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Prospective NATO or EU membership and institutional change in transition countries
Belke, Ansgar; Bordon, Ingo; Melnykovska, Inna; … - 2009
This paper quantifies the impact of incentives related to potential membership on institutional change as measured by the World Bank Governance Indicators (WBGI). Based on a panel of 25 transition countries for the period from 1996 to 2008 we show that pre-accession incentives provided by EU and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003903298
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How do trade and financial integration affect the relationship between growth and volatility?
Kose, M. Ayhan (contributor); Prasad, Eswar S. (contributor) - 2006
The influential work of Ramey and Ramey (1995) highlighted an empirical relationship that has now come to be regarded as conventional wisdom that output volatility and growth are negatively correlated. We reexamine this relationship in the context of globalization a term typically used to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003464194
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Exports, imports and wages : evidence from matched firm-worker-product panels
Martins, Pedro S.; Opromolla, Luca David - 2009
The analysis of the effects of firm-level international trade on wages has so far focused on the role of exports, which are also typically treated as a composite good. However, we show in this paper that firm-level imports can actually be a wage determinant as important as exports. Furthermore,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003931298
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Small state regional cooperation, South-South and South-North migration, and international trade
Schiff, Maurice W. - 2010
its size and welfare impact, and b) examines the impact of international migration as well as the migration …-trade relationship. The main findings are: i) the likelihood of regional bloc formation, its size and welfare impact increases with IC, N …-South migration raises bloc size and welfare; iv) South-South migration and trade are complements under market access negotiations and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003962846
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North-South trade-related technology diffusion : virtuous growth cycles in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2010
This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...
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