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Trade, global value chains and GDP comovemement : an empirical investigation : World Development Report 2020 : background paper
Soyres, François de; Gaillard, Alexandre - 2019
This paper provides up-to-date characterization of the association between trade and GDP comovement - also called the trade comovement slope- for 150 countries from 1962 to 2011. The paper shows that trade is significantly linked to more GDP correlation, either directly through bilateral trade,...
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Measuring what matters in global value chains and value-added trade : World Development Report 2020 : background paper
Borin, Alessandro; Mancini, Michele - 2019
The spread of global value chains (GVCs) has given rise to new statistical tools, the Inter-Country Input-Output tables and new analytical frameworks aimed at properly identifying production linkages between and within economies. However, several important questions remain unaddressed. This...
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World development report 2020 : trading for development in the age of global value chains
World Bank (Washington, District of Columbia) - 2019
retrenchment or a segmentation of GVCs. World Development Report 2020: Trading for Development in the Age of Global Value Chains …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644247
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Women and Trade : The Role of Trade in Promoting Gender Equality
World Bank Group - 2020
Trade can dramatically improve women's lives, creating new jobs, enhancing consumer choices, and increasing women's bargaining power in society. It can also lead to job losses and a concentration of work in low-skilled employment. Given the complexity and specificity of the relationship between...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012644298
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Global Trade Watch 2018 : Trade Amid Tensions
Constantinescu, Cristina - 2019
. Trade policy developments are mixed. Restrictive trade measures imposed during 2018 affected 3.8 percent of world …-for-tat tariffs between the United States and China alone affected 2.0 percent of world merchandise trade in 2018. Ongoing trade … a multilateral approach and World Trade Organization reforms …
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Strengthening Competitiveness In Bangladesh-Thematic Assessment : A Diagnostic Trade Integration Study
Kathuria, Sanjay - 2016 - Online-Ausg.
markets through a) better trade logistics to reduce delivery lags ; as world markets become more competitive and newer …
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The Impacts of Trade Facilitation Measures on International Trade Flows
de Sá Porto, Paulo C. - 2015
This paper analyzes the impacts of selected trade facilitation measures on international trade flows. A gravity model is used to estimate four equations: a pooled cross-section model; a fixed-effects model; a random effects model; and a Poisson maximum likelihood estimator. The contribution of...
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Is 3D printing a threat to global trade? : the trade effects you didn’t hear about : World Development Report 2020 background paper
Freund, Caroline L.; Mulabdic, Alen; Ruta, Michele - 2019
In the mid-2000s, the production of hearing aids shifted almost entirely to 3D printing. Using difference-in-differences and synthetic control methods, this paper examines the effects of this shift on trade flows. The analysis finds that trade increased roughly 60 percent following the...
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Global recessions
Kose, M. Ayhan; Sugawara, Naotaka; Terrones, Marco E. - 2020
The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009 … internationally, with severe economic and financial disruptions in many countries around the world. The 2009 global recession, set off …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012230745
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Trade and female labor participation : stylized facts using a global dataset
Rocha, Nadia; Winkler, Deborah - 2019
Using a cross-section of more than 29,000 manufacturing firms in 64 developing and emerging countries from the World …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012168130