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Real exchange rate, foreign trade and employment: Evidence from China
Zeng, Xiangquan; Yuxue, Cui; Shisong, Qing; Yumei, Yang - 2011
Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which largely depends on economic expansion, as well as integration into the global market to create jobs. Through the literature review and empirical test, this paper analyses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010280727
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Real Exchange Rate, Foreign Trade and Employment: Evidence from China
Zeng, Xiangquan; Yuxue, Cui; Shisong, Qing; Yumei, Yang - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2011
Coordination of macro-economic development and employment is an essential issue for China's social development, which largely depends on economic expansion, as well as integration into the global market to create jobs. Through the literature review and empirical test, this paper analyses the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009283572
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Are the East African Community's Countries Ready for a Common Currency?
Kigabo-Rusuhuzwa, Thomas; Heshmati, Almas - 2022
susceptible to asymmetric shocks. Inflation is in the process of converging in EAC, but the speed of convergence is slow. Time is …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013351749
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The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime in the Process of Real and Nominal Convergence
D'Adamo, Gaetano; Rovelli, Riccardo - 2013
inflation observed in the European catching-up countries, which suggests that other factors may be at play. In these and related … non-traded sectors) on the dual inflation differential is more than twice as large as that in the flexible countries. We … conclude that, in a catching-up country, premature euro adoption may foster excess inflation, beyond that which is to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010328933
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The Role of the Exchange Rate Regime in the Process of Real and Nominal Convergence
D'Adamo, Gaetano; Rovelli, Riccardo - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2013
inflation observed in the European catching-up countries, which suggests that other factors may be at play. In these and related … non-traded sectors) on the dual inflation differential is more than twice as large as that in the "flexible" countries. We … conclude that, in a catching-up country, premature euro adoption may foster excess inflation, beyond that which is to be …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011128045
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Poverty, Labour Markets and Trade Liberalization in Indonesia
Kis-Katos, Krisztina; Sparrow, Robert - 2013
increasing firm competitiveness as a driving factor behind the beneficial poverty effects. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010329085
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Preferential Market Access into the Chinese Market: How Good is it for Africa?
Co, Catherine Y.; Dimova, Ralitza - 2014
In 2005 China provided duty-free access to 190 items from 25 least developed sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. Three years later duty-free access was extended to 454 items from 31 SSA LDCs. We find no evidence that China's preferential market access program for the least developed sub-Saharan...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333282
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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014
This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333315
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How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations
Polachek, Solomon W. - 2004
One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L?Esprit des Lois, argued, ?peace is the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010262075
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Southern African economic integration: evidence from an augmented gravity model
Warin, Thierry; Wunnava, Phanindra V.; Tengia, Optat; … - 2009
Africa. We estimate an augmented-gravity model that includes public deficit, public debt, public expenditure, inflation, and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269429