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This paper quantifies the effect of realized and potential global growth disappointments on export volumes from the Middle East, North Africa, the Caucasus, and Central Asia. Estimates of export elasticities with respect to trading partner GDP indicate non-oil export volumes are relatively...
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In this paper we estimate gravity models to see whether trade volumes of countries in the MENA region are significantly … show that the variables used in standard gravity models cannot explain a significant part of MENA's trade performance … inefficiencies in customs clearance processes, are important in explaining the MENA region's underperformance in trade. …
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as natural disasters or large declines in the terms of trade. Remittances are positively correlated with economic …
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This paper assesses the effects of reducing tariffs under the Doha Round on market access for developing countries. It shows that for many developing countries, actual preferential access is less generous than it appears because of low product coverage or complex rules of origin. Thus lowering...
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Small and poor countries pose a challenge for the World Trade Organization (WTO). These countries have acquired a …
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The paper develops a simple three-sector model of a developing country with nominal wage rigidity, in which one sector is thought of as the primary sector and the other two are sectors in which the country can diversify. The paper then analyzes the relationship between the market structure of...
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to their growth outlooks. For emerging markets, this financial channel trumps the trade channel. For a broader set of … developing countries, however, the trade channel seems to have mattered, with countries exporting more advanced manufacturing …
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model explains tourism flows better than goods trade for equivalent specifications. The elasticity of tourism with respect … to GDP of the origin (importing) country is lower than for goods trade. Tourism flows respond strongly to changes in the …, bilateral trade) due to the larger share of business travel. Tourism to small islands is less sensitive to changes in the …
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on tourism between the two countries. After controlling for natural disasters, trade agreements, and other factors, the …
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This paper investigates the asymmetries in trade spillovers from sector-specific technology shocks in China to selected … euro area countries. We use a Ricardian-gravity trade model to estimate sectoral competitiveness in individual euro area …
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