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markets through increasing sales in these markets. This study aims to examine factors affecting export performance of SMEs in … level demonstrate relatively higher export activities. However, it can also be argued that SMEs do not have enough … knowledge-supporting programs are important for the export of SMEs in the Kyrgyz Republic. …
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Does export lead to improvement in labor market outcomes? The answer to this is not always clear from the literature …. Despite the rising role of export markets, informality is still high, and inequality is worsening in many developing economies …. In addition, export expansion driven by commodities has also been linked with the Dutch disease phenomenon. Using the …
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Trade statistics portray the People's Republic of China (PRC) as the largest exporter of high-tech products. In this paper I will argue that the PRC's leading position in high-tech exports is a myth created by outdated trade statistics which are inconsistent with trade based on global supply...
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property rights and embedded in physical goods is not recorded as either export or import of any country. Hence, current trade … actual US export capacity in the age of global value chains. According to our analysis of this case, if the value added of …
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Even as a number of developing countries have been able to reap the export opportunities presented by the rise of … global value chains (GVCs), Nepal's export performance remains dismal. This paper examines the challenges and constraints … interest rates when accessing credit; an inadequately funded concessional export credit scheme, with an insufficient term …
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This paper uses a structural gravity model to show the effects of services policies on manufacturing exports. Whereas the previous literature has focused on indirect effects of policies - flowing through productivity effects in domestic services markets - we look at direct effects, namely the...
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, the implementation of TF is related to reductions in the time and cost to export and import as well as to improvements in …
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India underwent a significant structural transformation through trade liberalization and other reforms (domestic) in the 1990s because of a balance-of-payments crisis. I use this episode to identify the causal effect of a drop in tariffs on wage inequality, measured through managerial and...
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The real effective exchange rate (REER) is one of the most cited statistical constructs in open-economy macroeconomics. We show that the models used to compute these numbers are not rich enough to allow for the rising importance of global value chains. Moreover, because different sectors within...
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For the last 15 years, computers have been the leading export category from East Asia to the rest of the world. They … Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) for processing by lower-skilled workers and re-export. This paper presents evidence that …
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