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ask whether environmental regulations affect exports of pollution-intensive or "dirty" goods in 24 countries between 1994 … and 1998. Based on a Heckscher-Ohlin-Vanek (HOV) model, net exports in five pollution-intensive industries are regressed … net exports of metal mining, nonferrous metals, iron, and steel and chemicals. The authors find find that a trade …
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Many policy makers are concerned about dependence on resource exports. This paper examines four changes that reduce …. Developing countries as a group have made enormous progress in diversifying their exports away from resources in recent decades …
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among many developing countries. These standards are perceived as a barrier to the continued success of their exports of …
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This paper provides new empirical evidence to the debate on the optimal locus of power over environmental policymaking in developing countries. The authors develop a simple lobby group model with mobile capital. The model predicts that a decentralized institutional structure leads to weaker...
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By reducing the costs of environmental protection, technological change is important for promoting green growth. This entails both the creation of new technologies and more widespread deployment of existing green technologies. This paper reviews the literature on environmentally friendly...
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(Harmonized System 10- digit) bilateral exports to the United States. The patterns in the data are consistent with the theory. The …
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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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's manufacturing exports remained unchanged, once processing trade is excluded. Third, export growth was accompanied by increasing …
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The authors apply a Heckman selection model to the 2003 Investment Climate Survey (ICS) to investigate supply-side constraints to export performance at the firm level in Ecuador. To correct for the non-random truncation problems, they use the Heckman selection model to estimate the probability...
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This paper examines recent changes in the structure of Argentine exports and the implications for future growth. The …-productivity goods that tend to be exported by low-income countries. The productivity content of Argentine exports has increased recently … exports more the efficiency frontier. Those products include chemicals and primary products with some degree of value added …
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