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South Africa's Exports Performance : Any Role for Structural Factors?
Anand, Rahul - 2016
Despite a substantial and prolonged exchange rate depreciation, South Africa's export performance has disappointed … of South African exports to the real exchange rate depreciation. To this end, we construct a unique database of export …
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Central America, Panama, and the Dominican Republic : Trade Integration and Economic Performance
Medina Cas, Stephanie C. - 2012
This paper studies the potential for the export sector to play a more important role in promoting growth in Central … fast-growing, export-oriented economies. To boost exports and growth, CAPDR should implement policies to facilitate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098574
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World Trade in Services : Evidence from a New Dataset
Loungani, Prakash - 2017
Using a newly constructed dataset on trade in services for 192 countries from 1970 to 2014, this paper shows that services currently constitute one-fourth of world trade and an increasingly important component of global production. A detailed analysis of patterns and stylized facts reveals that...
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Global Smartphones Sales May Have Peaked
Mongardini, Joannes - 2020
Global smartphone sales may have peaked. After reaching nearly 1.5 billion units in 2016, global smartphone sales have since declined, contributing negatively to world trade in 2019 and suggesting that the global market may now be saturated. This paper develops a simple model to forecast...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012829702
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Regional Growth Spillovers in Sub-Saharan Africa
Arizala, Francisco - 2019
This paper documents the steady increase in intraregional trade in sub-Saharan Africa since 1980, links this rise to important growth spillovers in the region, and identifies the main source countries and those most vulnerable to the economic conditions of others. Estimates show that in the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012864108
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Make in India : Which Exports Can Drive the Next Wave of Growth?
Anand, Rahul - 2015
Structural transformation depends not only on how much countries export but also on what they export and with whom they … complexity of the export basket. We identify five priority areas for policies: (1) reduction of trade costs, at and behind the …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013019027
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Structural Transformation and the Volatility of Aggregate Output in OECD Countries
Lonkeng Ngouana, Constant - 2013
This paper finds a negative relationship between the employment share of the service sector and the volatility of aggregate output in the OECD — after controlling for the level of financial development. This result reflects volatility differentials across sectors: labor productivity is more...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013085618
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A Tale of Two Sectors : Why is Misallocation Higher in Services than in Manufacturing?
Dias, Daniel A. - 2017
Recent empirical studies document that the level of resource misallocation in the service sector is significantly higher than in the manufacturing sector. We quantify the importance of this difference and study its sources. Conservative estimates for Portugal (2008) show that closing this gap,...
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The Size Distribution of Manufacturing Plants and Development
Kothari, Siddharth - 2015
The typical size distribution of manufacturing plants in developing countries has a thick left tail compared to developed countries. The same holds across Indian states, with richer states having a much smaller share of their manufacturing employment in small plants. In this paper, I explore the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013028669
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Export Performance in Europe : What Do We Know from Supply Links?
Rahman, Jesmin - 2013
One of the most important recent developments in international trade is the increasing interconnectedness of export … understanding of European exports: where exports values are created, the role of vertical supply links in export growth, what is … analysis finds strong role of supply links in cross-country export performance in Europe, where these links between countries …
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