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China'S Integration Into the World Economy : Implications for Developing Countries
Yang, Yongzheng - 2003
Although the rest of the world had waited a long time for China to open up, feelings were mixed when it actually did and began to integrate rapidly with the world economy. With the country’s recent accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO), many of its trading partners are increasingly...
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Fragmentation, Incomes, and Jobs : An Analysis of European Competitiveness
Timmer, Marcel P. - 2017
Increasing fragmentation of production across borders is changing the nature of international competition. As a result …
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Europe and Global Imbalances
Lane, Philip R. - 2007
Although Europe in the aggregate is a not a major contributor to global current account imbalances, its trade and … external deficits and surpluses. We assess the macroeconomic impact on Europe of global current account adjustment under …
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Joining, Upgrading and Being Competitive in Global Value Chains : A Strategic Framework
Cattaneo, Olivier - 2017
international trade and development paradigms. Global value chains now represent a major source of socio-upgrading opportunities and …
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China, India, and the Future of the World Economy : Fierce Competition or Shared Growth?
Dimaranan, Betina - 2016
Although both China and India are labor-abundant and dependant on manufactures, their export mixes are very different. Only one product-refined petroleum-appears in the top 25 products for both countries, and services exports are roughly twice as important for India as for China, which is much...
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Measuring competitiveness in a world of global value chains
Bayoumi, Tamim A.; Appendino, Maximiliano; Barkema, Jelle; … - 2018
All common real effective exchange rate indexes assume trade is only in final goods, despite the growing presence of global supply chains. Extending effective exchange rate indexes to include such intermediate goods can imply radically different effective exchange rate weights, depending on the...
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Globalization Drives Strategic Product Switching
Moreno Badia, Marialuz - 2008
Using firm-level data for Estonia for the years 1997-2005, we analyze the impact of international competition on firm … explicitly the role of export opportunities. Our results indicate that globalization does not affect firm exit significantly but …
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Global Recessions
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2020
The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009. During each of these episodes, annual real per capita global gross domestic product contracted, and this contraction was accompanied by weakening of other key indicators of global...
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Some Thoughts on Making Long-Term Forecasts for the World Economy
Fardoust, Shahrokh - 2017
Countries and international organizations working on longer-range development issues depend on long-term quantitative … projections and scenario analysis. Such forecasting has become increasingly challenging, thanks to the rapid pace of globalization … with other international organizations, academic centers, and independent experts on important long-term development issues …
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Trade in A'Green Growth'Development Strategy : Global Scale Issues and Challenges
de Melo, Jaime - 2017
This paper surveys the state of knowledge about the trade-related environmental consequences of a country's development strategy along three channels: (i) direct trade-environment linkages (overexploitation of natural resources and trade-related transport costs); (ii)' virtual trade' in...
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