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Financial stabilization systems, economic growth of developing countries and EU’s STABEX
Aiello, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Understanding the impact of instability of export receipts on the economic growth of developing countries has been an important area of research in development economics for a long time. A substantial body of literature has documented a wide range of empirical regularities according to which...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011259186
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Causality and Efficiency in the Coffee Futures Market
Kebede, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
Tests for causality and rationality in the coffee futures market were carried out using data from the New York Market. Tests of causality indicated that futures prices strongly influence variations in spot price eight weeks or more to maturity. However, beginning seven weeks to maturity there...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005836401
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Agricultural Policy Reforms and Structural Adjustments in Bangladesh
Hasan, Mohammad Monirul - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
This paper depicts the agricultural policy reforms and structural changes in Bangladesh from independence to the present times. Bangladesh agriculture has experienced major structural changes and achieved major successes over the last three and a half decades. Reforms began in the late 1970s and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011107547
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Brazil’s Place in the Global Economy
Porzecanski, Arturo C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Brazil is a country with long-standing ambitions for a major role in the world economy and in global governance, but its footprint in various measures of both remains relatively modest. On current trends, the gap between ambition and achievement will likely remain large, so we provide a critique...
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RTAs and WTO compatibility: Catch me if you can? The case of EPA negotiations
Cernat, Lucian; Onguglo, Bonapas; Ito, Taisuke - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
negotiations. Taking the current EPA negotiations between ACP and EU as an example, this paper examines two sorts of questions: (i … the implications for ACP countries of some of the proposals to reform GATT Art. XXIV, in particular the “substantially all …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005789249
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Wirtschaftliche Partnerschaftsabkommen (EPAs) der EU mit Afrika: Dominanz der EU Exportinteressen statt Partnerschaft auf Augenhöhe
Kohnert, Dirk - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
In view of the global run on African resources the EU is at pains to conclude Economic Partnership Programs with African states up to October 2014. The EPAs are meant not just to liberalize trade but also to promote economic development in Africa and thus creating a win-win situation in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011114231
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Economic Partnership Agreements: Assessing Potential Implications from Some Alternative Scenarios
Raihan, Selim; Razzaque, Mohammad A; Laurent, Edwin - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2007
modelling framework, namely the GTAP model. The latest version of the GTAP database (version 6.22) has been employed as a … other measures for welfare) for ACP countries (both developing and LDCs), based on the sample of countries in the database. …
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An Empirical Evaluation of Trade Potential in Southern African Development Community
Simwaka, Kisu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper attempts to estimate the trade potential expected from the SADC FTA. Specifically, the study investigates … findings by Chauvin (2002) and Cassim (2001) whose results indicated that SADC trade potentials are rather small, especially … for South African exports. They also differ with Elbadawi (1997) whose results indicate that SADC did not have a …
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Cross national technology convergence. An empirical study for the period 2000-2010.
Ewa, Lechman - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
focuses on the problem of suppose technology convergence (or divergence) among nations. The author implements and verifies the … hypothesis on β-convergence, as well as on the quantile convergence. The analysis is run for the sample consisted of 145 …
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Services growth and convergence: Getting India’s states together
Shingal, ANIRUDH - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
services are and we provide evidence for this both in terms of traditional measures of sigma- and beta-convergence and more …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009246879