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The end of the Multifiber Agreement in January 2005 had a negative impact on the Tunisian apparel industry, but the effects were weaker than expected. Using a dynamic general equilibrium model, the article provides a prospective assessment of the impact on Tunisia of the phase out of the MFA and...
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This paper is dedicated to a theoretical and empirical survey of the relationship between trade, growth, poverty and … therefore estimated the direct impact of trade on income or income growth. But this raises the problem of endogeneity of trade … to income, knowing that openness defined according to trade cannot be easily related to trade policies. As it is shown in …
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gravity model to assess the trade impact of pushing back the level of compliance with labour standards in distinguishing one … hand the effects on bilateral trade (geographical specialization) and, secondly, the effects on the export and import … openness. We show that, other things being equal, countries that meet the standards of work tend to trade more with no …
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gravity model to assess the trade impact of pushing back the level of compliance with labour standards in distinguishing one … hand the effects on bilateral trade (geographical specialization) and, secondly, the effects on the export and import … openness. We show that, other things being equal, countries that meet the standards of work tend to trade more with no …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011073053
This paper attempts to empirically explore the effects of trade liberalization process in Tunisia on average real wages … mechanism may affect firms’ employment response to trade liberalization. Indeed, bargaining workers could accept a reduction in … function derived from a model of employment determination that integrates trade impacts, following Mouelhi (2007). …
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The success of Export Processing Zones (EPZs) or the Zone Franche in Madagascar is, with the exception of Mauritius, an isolated and unrecognized case in Africa. The Zone Franche has had a highly significant macroeconomic impact in terms of exports and jobs. Madagascar became the number two...
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inequalities and trade patterns. We analyze the effect of redistributive policies on the production patterns and welfare. We … distinguish an intensive and an extensive channels through which an increase of demand - driven by redistribution or trade opening … - leads to output growth inside a country and in its partner country. Trade between dierent countries (in terms of income or …
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The consequences on international trade of country breaks-up have received an increasing attention. This paper … investigates the effect of independence on bilateral trade of former French colonies with a focus on Sub-Saharan Africa. Thanks to … an original dataset including data on pre-independence bilateral trade we obtain more accurate results. We also show that …
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This paper studies the reasons behind the export performance of different Mexican states from 1994 to 2002. Mexican exports are divided into two components: (1) foreign market potential; and (2) supply capacity. Results suggest that states that experience an increase in supply capacity are, in...
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of exporters) and intensive (volume of exports) margins of international trade. The article's main contribution is its …. It also presents new information on firm behavior under financial constraints. The paper develops a trade model with … firms' export volumes once they become exporters. An empirical analysis is developed on the basis of an international trade …
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