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Trade in a ???Green Growth??? Development Strategy : Global Scale Issues and Challenges
de Melo, Jaime - 2013
This paper surveys the state of knowledge about the trade-related environmental consequences of a country's development strategy along three channels: (i) direct trade-environment linkages (overexploitation of natural resources and trade-related transport costs); (ii) 'virtual trade' in...
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Increase in Protectionism and Its Impact on Sri Lanka's Performance in Global Markets
Kaminski, Bartlomiej; Ng, Francis - 2013
legacy of unfinished structural reforms of a socialist economic regime -- and (b) high and growing protectionism in the 2000s …. Sri Lanka's experience shows that the lack of stability in trade policy combined with recently expanding protectionism and …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560116
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Economic Partnership Agreements and the Export Competitiveness of Africa
Brenton, Paul; Hoppe, Mombert; Newfarmer, Richard - 2012
Trade can be a key driver of growth for African countries, as it has been for those countries, particularly in East Asia, that have experienced high and sustained rates of growth. Economic partnership agreements with the European Union could be instrumental in a competitiveness framework, but to...
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Services Linkages and the Value Added Content of Trade
Francois, Joseph; Manchin, Miriam; Tomberger, Patrick - 2013
Services trade constitute roughly one-third of trade on a value added basis, and much of this is concentrated in margin services (transport, logistics) linked to trade in goods. However, producer services are also part of the value added contained in traded goods. This is especially true in high...
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Dirty Exports and Environmental Regulation : Do Standards Matter to Trade?
Wilson, John S.; Sewadeh, Mirvat - Tsunehiro Otsuki - 2013
How to address the link between environmental regulation and trade was an important part of discussions at the World Trade Organization Ministerial in Doha, Qatar in November 2001. Trade ministers agreed to launch negotiations on trade and the environment, specifically clarification of WTO...
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Monitoring Export Vulnerability to Changes in Growth Rates of Major Global Markets
Hollweg, Claire H.; Lederman, Daniel; Reyes, Jos??-Daniel - 2013
. Export vulnerability depends first on the overall level of export exposure, measured as the share of exports in gross … gross domestic product using a gravity model of trade. Furthermore, export vulnerability is computed separately for … composition of their export basket. Although the results suggest differences in elasticity estimates across regions as well as …
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Liberia : Strategic Policy Options for Medium Term Growth and Development
Dessus, S??bastien; Hoffman, Jariya; Lofgren, Hans - 2013
The objective of this paper is to inform Liberia's medium-term growth and development strategy for 2012-17 and its National Vision: Liberia Rising 2030, both of which are under preparation. The analysis is based on MAMS (Maquette for MDG [Millennium Development Goal]) Simulations, a computable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012560361
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Economic Growth in Ghana : Determinants and Prospect
Raggl, Anna K. - 2014
This paper employs a simple cross-country panel framework to assess the determinants of growth in Ghana's gross domestic product over the past four decades. A set of standard covariates is used to explain growth rates. Natural resource variables are included because the effects of natural...
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Urbanization and (In)Formalization
Ghani, Ejaz; Kanbur, Ravi - 2013
Two of the great stylized predictions of development theory, and two of the great expectations of policy makers as indicators of progress in development, are inexorable urbanization and inexorable formalization. Urbanization is indeed happening, beyond the "tipping point" where half the world's...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012558108
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Import Protection, Business Cycles, and Exchange Rates : Evidence from the Great Recession
Bown, Chad P.; Crowley, Meredith A. - 2012
This research estimates the impact of macroeconomic fluctuations on import protection policies over 1988:Q1-2010:Q4 for the United States, European Union, and three other industrialized economies. First, estimates on a pre-Great Recession sample provide evidence of three key relationships for...
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