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The new kid in the forest: the impact of China's resource demand on Gabon's tropical timber value chain
Terheggen, Anne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This dissertation is anchored in the disruptive impact of China’s resource-based economic expansion over the last two … decades. Whilst the country’s economic growth follows traditional patterns of development, the size of China’s population … reversal of commodity exporting countries’ terms of trade are a result of China’s non-marginal impact of consumption. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011257896
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SOUTH-SOUTH REGIONALISM AND TRADE COOPERATION IN THE ASIA-PACIFIC REGION
Shafaeddin, Mehdi - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
This study of regional South-South (S-S) trade and cooperation in East, South and South-East Asian countries (ESSEA) aims to provide an economic rationale for S-S trade; shed some light on the extent and pattern of S-S trade in the ESSEA region; examine the dynamic forces behind the expansion of...
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Reassessing effective protection rates in a trade in tasks perspective: Evolution of trade policy in "Factory Asia"
Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
International trade moved from "trade in goods" to "trade in tasks" and effective protection rates (EPRs) are back to the analytical stage. They measure the overall protection that sectoral value-added is receiving from applied tariffs. The paper calculates sectorial EPRs for 10 Asian-Pacific...
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Exploring the policy dimensions of trade in value-added
Escaith, Hubert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Global Value Chains are a dominant feature of today’s global economy, yet their empirical analysis is still incipient. Building on a recent OECD-WTO database and the results of an on-going research program at WTO, the present essay contributes at filling this gap, after introducing the main...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110140
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China and Brazil Productive Structure and Economic Growth Compared: 1980’s to 2000’s
Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins; Polenske, Karen Rosel; … - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
China and Brazil are two countries with continental dimensions, with differences in availability of natural resources …, population sizes, and which have adopted different strategies of economic growth in the past. China has been following … power parity rates (GNI-PPP) of China and Brazil were at approximately the same level, but by the mid 2000s the GNI-PPP of …
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Trade in tasks, tariff policy and effective protection rates
Diakantoni, Antonia; Escaith, Hubert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
With the rise of global value chains, effective protection rates (EPRs) provide important insights on the impact of nominal tariffs on the competitiveness of industries. Building on the results of the OECD-WTO Trade in Value-Added TiVA database, the paper analyses the evolution of EPRs in about...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011110197
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Testing Goodwin’s Growth Cycle Disaggregated Models: Evidence from the Input-Output Table of the Greek Economy for the Year 1988
Rodousakis, Nikolaos - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This paper tests empirically the well-known Goodwin’s ‘growth cycle’ disaggregated models, using data from the symmetric input-output table of the Greek economy for the year 1988. It is found that from qualitative as well as quantitative point of view, both models are not adequate to...
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Regional Origin of Manufacturing Exports: Inter-State Patterns in India
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash; Das, Keshab - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2012
Regardless of exports’ increasing roles in national and state level economic growth performance, there are hardly any studies that analyze inter-state disparities in export activities. Constructing a unique dataset from a variety of published and unpublished sources of information, the study...
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Bounds Estimation for Trade Openness and Government Expenditure Nexus of ASEAN-4 Countries
Kueh, Jerome Swee-Hui; Puah, Chin-Hong; Wong, Chiew-Meu - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2008
Southeast Asia countries are encountering several challenges as they are moving towards the globalization and trade liberalization era. Due to that, government intervention is essential in ensuring that the economy is resilience against the severe implications of trade openness. Therefore, this...
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Subnational Export Performance and Determinants: Evidence from Two Indian States
Pradhan, Jaya Prakash; Zohair, Mohammad - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Traditionally, the export performance of the economies were analysed taking individual countries as the locational unit, which were not able to explain the subnational, regional or spatial disparities within the geographically vast countries like India, because huge amount of heterogeneity exist...
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