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exports from the top 1 percent of firms in a country -- export superstars. In contrast, the sectoral distribution of exports … across sectors is very similar across countries. This paper also finds that current export superstars typically entered the … export market relatively large, reached the top 1 percent after less than three years of exporting, and account for more than …
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integration, namely, trade volumes, export/trade patterns by product (primary and manufacturing goods), and by destination (inter …
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, this paper reveals some novel patterns. First, although services firms have on average a much lower propensity to export …
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This paper explores how the expansion of labor-intensive manufacturing exports resulting from the United States-Vietnam Bilateral Trade Agreement in 2001 translated into wages of skilled and unskilled workers and the skill premium in Vietnam through the channel of labor demand. In order to...
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This paper decomposes manufacturing import growth rates in a selected set of large industrial and developing countries (five industrial and eight developing) and measures the relative contributions of domestic demand and market share changes for two separate periods 1991/92 - 2001/02 and 2001/02...
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This paper evaluates the impact of foreign aid to five service sectors (transportation, information and communications technologies, energy, banking/financial services, and business services) on exports of downstream manufacturing sectors in developing countries. To address the reverse causality...
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market access: African firms are located further away from wealthier or denser potential export markets. A second occurs …
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School enrollment has universally increased over the past 25 years in low-income countries. However, enrolling in school does not guarantee that children learn. A large share of children in low-income countries learn little, and they complete their primary education lacking even basic reading,...
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projects as well as shorter-term energy efficiency projects. Expansion of a green sukuk market could promote environment …
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This paper investigates the costs and benefits of concluding double tax treaties with investment hubs. Based on a sample of 41 African economies from 1985-2015, the results suggest that signing treaties with investment hubs is not associated with additional investments; yet, these treaties tend...
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