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This paper uses provincial time series data from China to empirically investigate two propositions relating to economic … have increased the rate of convergence in per capita incomes across China’s provinces. However, the pattern of FDI, which …
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We explore the global footprint of Chinese banks and compare it with that of other bank nationalities. Chinese banks have become the largest cross-border creditors for almost half of all emerging market and developing economies (EMDEs). Their global reach resembles that of banks from advanced...
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: China, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, South Korea, and Thailand. We focus on measuring the impact of quality upgrading on the …
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We examine industrial output in Bulgaria, Hungary, Poland, and Romania during 1989–95 in terms of pretransitional product trade orientation. The growth of EU-oriented output within sectors of industry, ex-post trade, and market liberalization, is modeled as foreign direct investment induced...
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This paper finds convergence of real per capita GDP in Mexico’s states and regions during the period of higher average national per capita growth (1970-85), and divergence during the lower-growth period (1985-93). These results hold across states and regions and within regions. The poorest...
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We present and discuss a set of indicators to help assess countries' trade policies. The indicators relate to three policy areas - trade in goods, trade in services, and FDI. Given concerns about the direction of global trade policy, we also consider a set of more granular measures that reflect...
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We examine how Korea’s capital flows and trade have been affected by the quantitative easing (QE) of the United States and the quantitative and qualitative easing (QQME) of Japan. Korea is an intriguing case due to its borderline position between advanced and emerging market country groups,...
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The rapid growth in China’s domestic investment in recent decades has generated a large appetite for global goods …, including from sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). This paper estimates the impact of changes in China’s investment growth on SSA …’s exports. Although rising trading links with China have allowed African countries to diversify their export base across …
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The use of e-commerce around the world has accelerated in recent years, with Asia, led by China, spearheading the rise …
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