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Exporters and global value chain participation : firm-level evidence from South Africa
Mazzi, Caio Torres; Ndubuisi, Gideon Onyewuchi; Avenyo, … - 2020
Using the South African Revenue Service and National Treasury firm-level panel data for 2009-17, this paper investigates how global value chain-related trade affects the export performance of manufacturing firms in South Africa. In particular, the paper uses extant classifications of...
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Globalization and gender inequality : evidence from South Africa
Van Rensburg, Caro Janse; Bezuidenhout, Carli; Matthee, … - 2020
Inequality has been rising in most countries for several decades, with negative consequences for social cohesion and economic growth. Substantial gender wage gaps contribute significantly to overall wage inequality. We look at an often-overlooked driver of gender inequality: international trade....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256669
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Linking Southern Africa into South Africa's global value chains
Banga, Karishma; Balchin, Neil - 2019
This study explores the potential for South Africa to become an engine for intra- regional trade and industrial development by linking other Southern African countries to its global value chains and, in the process, improving its global trade competitiveness. The study identifies 'lead products'...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012103359
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Variation in structural change around the world, 1985-2015 : patterns, causes, and implications
Wood, Adrian - 2017
During 1985-2015, globalization intensified the factor-endowment-related pattern of sectoral specialization. In skill … sectors in output and employment increased in most countries, but mainly for reasons unrelated to globalization. Changes in …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011599307
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Comparing global inequality of income and wealth
Davies, James B.; Shorrocks, Anthony F. - 2018
income and wealth microdata samples designed to be representative of all countries in the world. Measured by the Gini … reduced world inequality. Income inequality has changed little within countries, so the downward trend remains intact. However …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011947029
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Globalizing Shanghai : international migration and the global city
Shen, Wei - 2010
institutions. Shanghai, being regarded as the 'ultimate poster-child for the effects of globalization on cities and regions' by the … inevitably competing with other cities in China and Asia for the best brains in the world. This paper therefore aims to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008662259
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Mozambique's elite : finding its way in a globalized world and returning to old development models
Hanlon, Joseph; Mosse, Marcelo - 2010
What makes elites developmental instead of predatory? We argue that Mozambique's elite was developmental at independence 35 years ago. With pressure and encouragement from international forces, it became predatory. It has now partly returned to its developmental roots and is trying to use the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008663003
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Global poverty, aid, and middle-income countries : are the country classifications moribund or is global poverty in the process of 'nationalizing'?
Sumner, Andrew - 2013
The majority of the world's poor, by income poverty and multi-dimensional poverty, now live in countries officially … classified by the World Bank as middle-income countries. Of course nothing happens when a country crosses a (somewhat) arbitrary … first is that the thresholds used to classify countries by the World Bank and extensively used by aid agencies, albeit with …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009752790
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Global interpersonal inequality : trends and measurement
Niño-Zarazúa, Miguel; Roope, Laurence; Tarp, Finn - 2014
interpersonal inequality during 1975-2005 are measured using data from UNU-WIDER’s World Income Inequality Database. In order to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010228740
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The UTIP global inequality datasets : 1963 - 2008
Galbraith, James K.; Halbach, Béatrice; Malinowska, … - 2015
the world, from 1963 to 2008. The new UTIP-UNIDO (University of Texas Inequality Project-United Nations Industrial …
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