What is the impact of the removal of barriers to trade on the firms' innovative activities? Does the increase in … competition arising from trade reforms lead to increases in innovation? This paper attempts to examine the link between trade … Licandro (2009, 2010) as guide, a two-stage approach is tested where trade and innovation are linked via competition. A …

In drawing up the negotiating stance of the Philippines in light of the Philippines-European Union (PH-EU) free trade …

protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to … follow strategies of export driven industrialization. If we consider the share of non-OECD countries in global trade in … Africa. In this paper we present a two region product life cycle model of global specialization and trade. In it we analyse …

. Having discussed the nature and dynamics of the GAE, the paper turns to sketch a series of vectors (trade, aid and energy …

international trade. It is up to the donor country to decide what fraction of any given aid package is to be made available for the …

and growth in services' trade. The objective of this paper is to build a simple three sector quantitative model which can … productivity (TFP) and increase in the level of trade in industrial and service sectors. The results from a counterfactual … of sectoral trade negligibly affects the results. Hence I conclude that services' productivity growth versus the increase …

impact on manufacturing employment? This paper attempts to answer this question by estimating the effects of trade with China … effects of trade with China and India on the level of employment in Argentina's manufacturing sector. Results suggest that … trade with China and India only had a small negative effect on industrial employment, even during the swift trade …