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Trade Policy Barriers : An Obstacle to Export Diversification in Eurasia
Cusolito, Ana P. - 2017
barriers in Eurasia, East Asia and the Pacific, and the European Union. Using the most recent data from sources including the … diversification toward the East Asia and the Pacific and the European Union regions. It also highlights the potential benefits of … Asia and the Pacific region (especially China) appears to be more protectionist than the European Union, suggesting a …
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Cash Transfers and Temptation Goods : A Review of Global Evidence
Evans, David - 2017
supported by data from Latin America, Africa, and Asia. A growing number of studies from a range of contexts therefore indicate …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973201
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Equity and Bond Flows to Asia and Latin America : The Role of Global and Country Factors
Lopez-Acevedo, Gladys - 2017
inflows. But country developments are at least as important in determining those flows, especially for Asia. They also find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012746921
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Evaluating the Trade Effect of Developing Regional Trade Agreements : A Semi-Parametric Approach
Coulibaly, Souleymane - 2016
-Saharan Africa (ECOWAS and SADC), Asia (AFTA and SAPTA) and Latin America (CACM, CAN, and MERCOSUR), estimating their impacts on …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747754
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Trade Integration, Export Patterns, and Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Calderón, César - 2020
This paper examines systematically the growth effects of trade integration in Sub-Saharan Africa. It complements and improves upon the empirical literature in two aspects: first, it jointly estimates the impact of different dimensions of trade integration, namely, trade volumes, export/trade...
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How Much Labor Do South African Exports Contain?
Calì, Massimiliano - 2017
Like many emerging economies, South Africa has identified exports as an engine for more inclusive, job-intensive growth. However, employment growth did not follow the substantial export growth that South Africa experienced in the 2000s. This paper uses a newly developed World Bank database --...
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Monitoring Export Vulnerability to Changes in Growth Rates of Major Global Markets
Hollweg, Claire H. - 2017
Interest in assessing the impacts on developing countries of changes in major markets' economic performance has risen in tandem with global economic uncertainty over short- and medium-term growth prospects. This paper proposes a methodology to measure the vulnerability of a country's exports to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012974830
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The Internet and Chinese Exports in the Pre-Alibaba Era
Fernandes, Ana M. - 2018
This paper uses the dramatic expansion of access to the Internet in China to analyze the impact of the Internet on firm performance. The paper combines firm-level production data with province-level information on Internet penetration to examine how the rollout of the Internet across Chinese...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012931905
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Clothing and Export Diversification : Still a Route to Growth for Low-Income Countries?
Hoppe, Mombert - 2016
Can the clothing sector be a driver of export diversification and growth for today's low-income countries as it was in the past for countries that have graduated into middle income? This paper assesses this issue taking into account key changes to the market for clothing: the emergence of India...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747617
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Export Structure and Growth : A Detailed Analysis for Argentina
Parra Torrado, Monica - 2016
This paper examines recent changes in the structure of Argentine exports and the implications for future growth. The authors find that the current export structure of Argentina is not conducive to future growth because it is dominated by low-productivity goods that tend to be exported by...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747735