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Is interregional AU-ASEAN diffusion in the south barren?
Kingah, Stephen; Akong, Charles - 2015
South-South interregional exchanges have so far been barren. In many cases, e.g. between Asia and Africa, this assessment is … Asian Nations (ASEAN) within the broader context of Africa-Asia relations, the paper aspires to provoke further research …
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Quality of sub-national government and regional development in Africa
Iddawela, Yohan; Lee, Neil; Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2021
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Learnings from the New Zealand economic history of shocks
Easton, Brian H. - 2023
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Origins of Latin American inequality
Eslava, Francisco; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2023
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Origins of Latin American inequality
Eslava, Francisco; Caicedo, Felipe Valencia - 2023
thematically, providing empirical evidence and summarizing the key recent studies on colonial institutions, slavery, land reform …
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Estimating the Impact of Time-Invariant Variables on FDI with Fixed Effects
Davies, Ronald B.; Ionascu, Delia; Kristjánsdóttir, Helga - 2007
This paper applies the panel fixed effects with vector decomposition estimator to three FDI datasets to estimate the impact of time-invariant variables on FDI while including fixed effects. We find that the omission of fixed effects significantly biases several of these variables, especially...
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The Implications of Globalization for Firms’ Demand for Skilled and Unskilled Labor
Scheuer, Christian; Sørensen, Anders; Rosholm, Michael - 2007
This paper investigates the impact of globalization, in the sense of increasing international trade, on the demand for skills in Danish manufacturing companies. The study is based on a unique data set that enables us to develop rich measures of international outsourcing and import penetration....
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Flexibility in Trade Bloc Design
Melatos, Mark; Dunn, Stephanie - 2010
A key characteristic of any trade bloc is its “flexibility” – the extent to which it can be modified or augmented by existing members. This paper investigates how prospective trade bloc members value the flexibility of proposed trade agreements in a changing trading environment. We...
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Firm employment growth, R&D expenditures and exports
Di Cintio, Marco; Ghosh, Sucharita; Grassi, Emanuele - 2016
This paper studies firms' decisions to export and invest in R&D and their effects on employment growth and labor flows … SMEs, our quantile regressions reveal that (i) R&D is associated with higher employment growth rates, higher hiring rates … and lower separation rates; (ii) R&D-induced exports are negatively related to employment growth and accessions and …
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India - Pakistan trade : textiles and clothing
Taneja, Nisha; Ray, Saon; Pande, Devyani - 2016
India and Pakistan are the leading textile trading nations in the world. Among the major sectors, the textile and clothing sector accounts for the largest share in trade between India and Pakistan chiefly because of the similarities in culture and the importance of the sector in their economies....
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