Similar Search Results

World Trade Flows : 1962-2000

Feenstra, Robert C.; Lipsey, Robert E.; Deng, Haiyan; … - 2021

We document a set of bilateral trade data by commodity for 1962-2000, which is available from www.nber.org/data (International Trade Data, NBER-UN world trade data). Users must agree not to resell or distribute the data for 1984-2000. The data are organized by the 4-digit Standard International...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013244401

World Trade Flows, 1970-1992, with Production and Tariff Data

Feenstra, Robert C.; Lipsey, Robert E.; Bowen, Harry P. - 2021

This paper describes two databases dealing with world bilateral trade flows: the World Trade Database (WTDB) assembled by Statistics Canada, which contains bilateral trade flows for all countries over 1970-1992, classified according to the Standard International Trade Classification, Revision 2...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013245518

The African Growth Miracle

Young, Alwyn - 2012

Measures of real consumption based upon the ownership of durable goods, the quality of housing, the health and mortality of children, the education of youth and the allocation of female time in the household indicate that sub-Saharan living standards have, for the past two decades, been growing...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013098811

China's Growing Economic Activity in Africa

Besada, Hany - 2008

Trade between the whole of Africa and China (imports and exports summed) grew from $10.6 billion to $73.3 billion … between 2000 and 2007, and between Sub-Saharan Africa and China from $7 billion to $59 billion over the same period. China is … now Africa's third largest trading partner behind the EU and the US. The Chinese FDI stock in Africa has grown from $49 …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012771826

What is Driving the 'African Growth Miracle'?

McMillan, Margaret - 2014

We show that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction can be traced to a substantive decline in the share …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013054049

Trade in Business Services in General Equilibrium

Markusen, James R. - 2010

Trade in business services has been attracting attention from academic researchers, policy makers, and business journalists. While there are many anecdotes, there has been little in the way of formal theory applied to this issue. In this paper, we adapt a general model of fragmentation of...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760467

An Economic Rationale for the African Scramble : The Commercial Transition and the Commodity Price Boom of 1845-1885

Frankema, Ewout - 2015

Sub-Saharan Africa experienced a terms of trade boom that was comparable to other parts of the ‘global periphery' from the … Africa. We also show that the accelerated export growth after the establishment of colonial rule deepened Africa …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013021885

Poultry in Motion : A Study of International Trade Finance Practices

Antras, Pol - 2011

This paper analyzes the financing terms that support international trade and sheds light on how and why these arrangements affect trade. Using detailed transaction level data from a U.S. based exporter of frozen and refrigerated food products, primarily poultry, it begins by describing broad...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013124546

The Great Trade Collapse

Bems, Rudolfs - 2012

We survey recent literature on the causes of the collapse in international trade during the 2008-2009 global recession. We argue that the evidence points to the collapse in aggregate expenditure, concentrated on trade-intensive durable goods, as the main driver of the trade collapse. Inventory...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013096140

From Groundnuts to Globalization : A Structural Estimate of Trade and Growth

Broda, Christian M. - 2010

Starting with Romer [1987] and Rivera-Batiz-Romer [1991] economists have been able to model how trade enhances growth through the creation and import of new varieties. In this framework, international trade increases economic output through two channels. First, trade raises productivity levels...

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012760652

1
2
3
4
5
6
7
8
9
10
Next
Last