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over other exporters into the Chinese market. While there is evidence of decreased export bundle concentration and movement …
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This paper investigates the impact of agricultural trade liberalization on economic activity and political violence in emerging countries. We use data on all Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) signed between 25 low- and middle-income countries and their high-income trade partners between 1995...
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bilateral export to recipient countries. The empirical analysis is based on data from 1996 to 2014 with 121 recipient countries …. Although the two models of determinants of ODA and its export effectiveness are highly interrelated, this kind of simultaneous … squares estimation method leads to accounting for two-ways causal relationships between ODA and export while the endogeneity …
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We explore the export performance of Africa's underperforming female entrepreneurs, using the Ghanaian ISSER-IGC panel … of key business constraints, across both male and female entrepreneurs. We find that females are less likely to export … (and optimize their exporting) than their male peers. Although reduced access to finance seriously constrains the exports …
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on trade, and especially on exports. Those immigrants should be the ones directly involved in the diffusion and … those contributing to export by the largest margin. Business network effects seem particularly important in stimulating … exports to culturally different countries, such as those with different legal origin …
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Has rising import competition contributed to the polarization of U.S. politics? Analyzing multiple measures of political expression and results of congressional and presidential elections spanning the period 2000 through 2016, we find strong though not definitive evidence of an ideological...
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expand their product varieties in export. Our model demonstrates that relaxing foreign ownership controls and improving … raising the extensive margin of processing exports in China for the period of 1997-2007 …
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This paper studies how a positive export shock - the sharp increase in garment-sector exports that began at the end of … the Multifibre Arrangement (MFA) - spread through Bangladesh's labor markets. Although the end of the MFA was arguably … exogenous to Bangladesh, we instrument export demand with OECD imports to ensure identification. We compare estimates of the …
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The global financial crisis and the subsequent uneven recovery have underscored the need for Africa's resilience to … African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) – suggests that deeper intra-regional, and in particular …
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Various development objectives are worthy, but to my mind, one objective dominates all others: reducing the scourge of absolute economic misery in the world. In this paper, I focus on an important but relatively underemphasized approach to poverty reduction: helping the poor earn more in the...
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