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Trade Effects of the New Silk Road : A Gravity Analysis

Baniya, Suprabha - 2019

This paper takes a first look at the trade effects of China's Belt and Road Initiative, also referred to as the New Silk Road, on the 71 countries potentially involved. The initiative consists of several infrastructure investment projects to improve the land and maritime transportation in the...

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Sugar Prices, Labour Income and Poverty in Brazil

Krivonos, Ekaterina - 2006

household labor income and poverty in Brazil. The authors first estimate the extent of price transmission from world markets to … 11 Brazilian states to capture the fact that some local markets may be relatively more isolated from changes in world … world sugar prices. Results suggest that workers in the sugar sector and in sugar-producing regions have better employment …

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The Impacts of Trade Facilitation Measures on International Trade Flows

Sá Porto, Paulo Costacurta de - 2017

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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Comparative Advantage, International Trade, and Fertility

Đỗ-Quý-Toàn - 2017

This paper analyzes theoretically and empirically the impact of comparative advantage in international trade on fertility. It builds a model in which industries differ in the extent to which they use female relative to male labor and countries are characterized by Ricardian comparative advantage...

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Measuring What Matters in Global Value Chains and Value-Added Trade

Borin, Alessandro - 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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Covid-19 and Food Protectionism : The Impact of the Pandemic and Export Restrictions on World Food Markets

Espitia, Alvaro - 2020

This paper analyzes the impact of Covid-19 and uncooperative trade policies on world food markets. It quantifies the … percent on average. Escalating export restrictions would multiply the initial shock by a factor of 3, with world food prices …

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Trade, Global Value Chains and GDP Comovemement : An Empirical Investigation

Soyres, François de - 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...

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Does the Global Trade Slowdown Matter?

Constantinescu, Cristina - 2018

Since the Global Financial Crisis, world trade growth has been subdued and lagging slightly behind growth of gross … trade-income relationship, and then investigates its consequences for economic growth. On the demand side, sluggish world …

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The Global Trade Slowdown : Cyclical or Structural?

Constantinescu, Cristina - 2018

This paper focuses on the sluggish growth of world trade relative to income growth in recent years. The analysis uses …

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Trade Flows and Trade Disputes

Bown, Chad P. - 2017

countries fight about under World Trade Organization (WTO) dispute settlement. The paper characterizes the scope of products, as …

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