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technology weakens the need for services industries to co-agglomerate at the state level, perhaps because electronic transport of … shows that services are prominent among the most agglomerated industries, especially at the county level. Because … services industries, this paper takes an alternative approach and looks at co-agglomeration to assess why industries cluster …
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This paper provides estimates of price-marginal cost ratios for manufacturing and services sectors in the Eurozone, the …
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terms of their retail and services offer. The analysis was based on data on business entities of selected branches located …
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of those 33 available tourist services and amenities in the district. …
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We consider the determinants of exports of services, distinguishing between modern and traditional services. We … whether the determinants of export growth rates and surges differ between merchandise, traditional services and modern … services and whether developing countries are different. Our findings confirm the importance of the real exchange rate for …
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India’s success story in services is well documented at the national level, but similar literature does not exist for … India’s states. In this paper, we bridge this gap in research by looking at India’s services growth at the sub … services are and we provide evidence for this both in terms of traditional measures of sigma- and beta-convergence and more …
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trading with the domestic market, for services and manufacturing firms located in the Basque Country region of Spain. I find … that, despite the dramatic improvement in information and communication technologies, international trade costs for … services are still much larger than for manufactures. Based on standard elasticities of substitution used in the literature …
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This paper takes stock of the forces that lie behind the recent rise of preferential agreements in services trade. Its … initial focus is with a number of distinguishing features of services trade that sets it apart from trade in goods and shapes … trade liberalization and rule-making approaches in the services field. The paper then documents the nature, modal and …
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This paper studies the government procurement of services from foreign suppliers by conducting a statistical analysis … suppliers in services procurement. Our results indicate that despite the GPA, the proportions of services contracts awarded to … foreigners have declined over time for both countries and that in the absence of this decline, the value of services contracts …
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ABSTRACT The study analyzed the determinants of cassava farmers’ accessibility to microfinance services in Abia state …
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