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Integration of Eastern Europe Into the World Trading System
Junz, Helen B. - 1991
The sheer size of mandated trade among members of the Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (CMEA), and its composition and quality, means that its reorientation toward other markets entails a whole complex of structural adjustment policies. To be successful, policy reform must be...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396289
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Trade, Growth, and Poverty : A Selective Survey
Berg, Andrew - 2003
This survey of the recent literature asks: how important is trade policy for poverty reduction? We consider the effects of openness on poverty in two components: the effect of openness on average income growth, and the effect on distribution for a given growth rate. Evidence from a variety of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014404018
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China's Economic Growth : International Spillovers
Vamvakidis, Athanasios - 2010
This paper presents some facts on China’s role in the world economy and measures the impact of China’s growth on growth … suggest that spillover effects of China’s growth have increased in recent decades. Long-term spillover effects, estimated …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402923
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Domestic amplifiers of external shocks : growth accelerations and reversals in emerging market and developing economies
Gruss, Bertrand; Nabar, Malhar; Poplawski-Ribeiro, Marcos - 2019
External conditions have been found to influence the tendency of emerging market and developing economies to experience episodes of growth accelerations and reversals. In this paper we study the role of domestic policies and other structural attributes in amplifying or mitigating the effect that...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012102045
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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 … (WTO), many of its trading partners are increasingly concerned that China’s competition in the world goods and capital … markets may adversely affect their own growth prospects. This paper examines the implications of China’s WTO accession for …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403900
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Chile's Rapid Growth in the 1990's-Good Policies, Good Luck, or Political Change?
Jadresic, Esteban - 2000
Chile’s average economic growth between 1990 and 1998 was above 7 percent per year, more than double than in previous decades, and higher than in any other Latin American country in the same period. This paper assesses empirically the main hypotheses suggested in the literature about the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014403501
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Capital and Trade As Engines of Growth in France : An Application of Johansen's Cointegration Methodology
Coe, David T. - 1993
An aggregate production function is estimated with recent cointegrating techniques that are particularly appropriate for estimating long-run relationships. The empirical results suggest that the growth of output in France has been spurred by increased trade integration within the European...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014396036
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Growth Gains From Trade and Education
Kim, Yong-jin - 1999
This paper presents a multisector growth model where education enhances general human capital, which is essential for increasing or maintaining the mobility of workers across industries. The paper shows that education, combined with international trade, can affect growth positively in the long...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014400198
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Institutions Rule : The Primacy of Institutions Over Integration and Geography in Economic Development
Subramanian, Arvind - 2002
We estimate the respective contributions of institutions, geography, and trade in determining cross-country income levels using recently developed instruments for institutions and trade. Our results indicate that the quality of institutions ""trumps"" everything else. Controlling for...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014401492
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How Russia Affects the Neighborhood : Trade, Financial, and Remittance Channels
Espinosa-Bowen, Jaime - 2009
We test the extent to which growth in the 11 CIS countries (excluding Russia) was associated with developments in Russia, overall, as well as through the trade, financial and remittance channels over the last decade or so. The results point to the continued existence of economic links between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014402216