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It is generally recognized that the adoption of a new technology plays a fundamental role in the development process. However, the benefits from the introduction of the technology may be unevenly distributed among the population, especially if the markets do not function properly. While the...
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Many countries sell fishing rights to foreign nations and fishers. Although African coastal waters are among the world's most biologically rich, African countries earn much less than their peers from selling access to foreign fishers. African countries sell fishing access individually (in...
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This paper studies the cross-country patterns of risky innovation and growth through the lens of international trade. It uses a simple theoretical framework of risky quality upgrading by firms under varying levels of financial development to derive two predictions. First, the mean rate of...
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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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Decomposing China's real export growth, of over 500 percent since 1992, reveals a number of interesting findings. First …, China's export structure changed dramatically, with growing export shares in electronics and machinery and a decline in …'s manufacturing exports remained unchanged, once processing trade is excluded. Third, export growth was accompanied by increasing …
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-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 of exporting (export propensity) and the share of total sales that are … exported (export intensity) by Ecuadorian firms. They develop a baseline model with 12 independent variables divided into three …
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authors find that the current export structure of Argentina is not conducive to future growth because it is dominated by low …, including partly processed meat, fish and grains. If economic growth is to be fostered by developing new export products and by …
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This paper investigates the extent of China's export boom in machinery and analyzes trade in components and finished …
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The authors test the hypothesis that product standards harmonized to de facto international standards are less trade restrictive than ones that are not. To do this, the authors construct a new database of European Union (EU) product standards. The authors identify standards that are aligned with...
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; there is strong evidence in favour of self-selection of more productive firms into export markets, but nearly no evidence in … are more open and have more effective government report higher productivity premia. However, the level of development per …
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