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Structural Change, Fundamentals, and Growth : A Framework and Case Studies
McMillan, Margaret - 2017
development quest. The sample includes Brazil, India, Vietnam and four African countries -- Botswana, Ghana, Nigeria, and Zambia … industrialization only played a significant role in Vietnam …
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Poverty and Survival Prospects of Vietnamese Children Under Doi Moi
Wagstaff, Adam - 2017
By international standards, and given its relatively low per capita income, Vietnam has achieved substantial reductions … inequalities in child survival are evident in Vietnam-a change from the early 1990s when none were apparent. The authors develop … progress among the poor will jeopardize Vietnam's chances of achieving the international development goals for child mortality …
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China, India, and the Future of the World Economy : Fierce Competition or Shared Growth?
Dimaranan, Betina - 2016
Although both China and India are labor-abundant and dependant on manufactures, their export mixes are very different. Only one product-refined petroleum-appears in the top 25 products for both countries, and services exports are roughly twice as important for India as for China, which is much...
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Trade in Developing East Asia : How it Has Changed and Why it Matters
Constantinescu, Ileana Cristina - 2018
East Asia, for long the epitome of successful engagement in trade, faces serious challenges: technological change that may threaten the very model of labor intensive industrialization and a backlash against globalization that may reduce access to important markets. A detailed analysis of the...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012912297
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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 domestic product. Trade is growing more slowly not only because growth of global gross domestic product is lower, but also because trade itself has become less responsive to gross...
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Latin American Growth : A Trade Perspective
de la Torre, Augusto - 2019
This paper reviews the determinants of Latin America's uneven growth based on an accounting decomposition that breaks down countries' growth (relative to the world) into three trade-related channels: (i) an export pull measuring the traction exerted by the country's exports, (ii) an external...
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Trade Integration and Growth : Evidence from Sub-Saharan Africa
Calderón, César - 2019
This paper examines the growth effects of different dimensions of international trade integration -- notably, volume, diversification, and natural resource dependence -- in Sub-Saharan Africa. First, the paper documents the recent trends in these foreign trade dimensions for the region and the...
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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...
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Trade Causes Growth in Sub-Saharan Africa
Brückner, Markus - 2017
In the 1990s the mainstream consensus was that trade causes growth. Subsequent research shed doubt on the consensus view, as evidence suggested that the identification of the effect of trade on growth was problematic in the existing literature. This paper contributes to this debate by focusing...
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Trade and Economic Growth : Evidence on the Role of Complementarities for Cafta-Dr Countries
Calderón, César - 2017
This paper examines the effects of trade on growth among Central America-Dominican Republic Free Trade Agreement countries. To accomplish this task, the authors collected a panel data set of 136 countries over 1960-2010, and estimated cross-country growth regressions using an econometric...
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