countries. It also presents new estimates of the impact of China on the value of Latin American exports to the US over the past … a significant impact on the exports of a number of Latin American countries and that this has increased since China …China's global expansion has led to concerns amongst other developing country exporters that they will be displaced by …

This paper analyses China's ICT exports growth in its two major markets Japan and the US from 1992 to 2004. It focuses … on ICT products classified in SITC 75, 76 and 77. The empirical results show that Chinese exports had maintained two …, Chinese ICT exports accounted for 26 per cent of the total Japanese imports and 19 per cent of the total imports of the US in …

between Vietnam and China on world markets, and show that the export structures are very different. Both countries have … the World Trade Organization (WTO). This paper addresses this question with regard to Vietnam, who joined the WTO at the … benefited from a boom in their textile and clothing exports following the cessation of quotas (in the case of China) and the …

change in the competitive threat over time. – China ; competition ; export similarity ; exports ; trade …In recent years there has been a growing literature that analyses the threat which Chinese exports pose to the exports … of other developing countries. The paper provides a critique of the standard measures of export similarity which have …

By exploring the export performances and specialization patterns of China and India, we assess their trade …, Singapore and Thailand, implying opportunities for trade expansion; and finally (vi) the export structure of China is changing … competitiveness and complementarity vis-à-vis each other as well as with the rest of the world. Our analysis indicates that (i) India …

, livelihood and food security. Implementation of various provisions of the WTO Agreement on Agriculture causes serious concern … to consequences of future WTO agreements. The cautious approach towards the WTO is mainly caused by the increased … dependence on food imports and deterioration in self-reliance in agriculture in the post-WTO period because of a much higher …

The rise of the emerging southern economies – China, India, Brazil, and South Africa (CIBS) – as both economic and … political actors, is having significant and far-reaching impact on the world economy. Notwithstanding the increasing amount of … of the Southern Economies. One of these gaps concerns the implications for the WTO-multilateral trading system. The …

Should developing countries focus on diversifying their export basket or should they instead specialize their exports … on export diversification and specialization, by investigating the extent of export diversification and specialization in …) model to investigate the economy-wide impacts of greater export diversification versus greater export specialization. We …

This paper provides empirical evidence on the relationship between exports, and in particular export diversity, and … regional growth in a developing country context. Using export data for 19 sectors from 354 subnational (magisterial) districts … of South Africa, we construct various measures of subnational export diversity. We find that it is not only how much that …

regions within China is considered. It is found that the direct contribution of WTO membership is small to the whole economy … 40 separate industries across 31 regions (or 8 regional blocks) of China for the period 2002–07. Labour movement between … in terms of growth and development. Real GDP will rise only 6.48 per cent (5.6 per cent) in the pure WTO short-run (long …