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Geography and Exporting Behavior : Evidence from India

Mukim, Megha - 2012

This paper examines locational factors that increase the odds of a firm's entry into export markets and affect the intensity of its participation. It differentiates between two different sources of spillovers: clustering of general economic activity and that of export-oriented activity. It also...

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Economic Community of West African States : Fiscal Revenue Implications of the Prospective Economic Partnership Agreement with the European Union

Zouhonbi, Simplice G - 2020

This paper applies a partial equilibrium model to analyze the fiscal revenue implications of the prospective economic partnership agreement between the Economic Community of West African States (ECOWAS) and the European Union. The authors find that, under standard import price and substitution...

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Distributional Effects of Crises : The Financial Channel

Halac, Marina C. - 2011

Financial crises affect income distribution via different channels. This paper argues that there is an important channel overlooked by the literature, namely the financial channel. We study how this channel operates by analyzing data from several Latin American countries, including Argentina,...

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Japan's Changing Industrial Landscape

Yusuf, Shahid - 2015

This paper explores various strategic options available to Japanese firms faced with the increasing market pressures in the global economy. Whether Japanese firms are able to retain the competitive edge will depend on the continuing gains in their manufacturing capability, their capacity to...

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Domestic Constraints, Firm Characteristics, and Geographical Diversification of Firm-Level Manufacturing Exports in Africa

Yoshino, Yutaka - 2008

other firm characteristics explain the geographical orientation of firms' exports and the overall market diversification of … African manufacturing exports. The degree of market diversification, measured by the number of export destinations, is highly … firm-level export intensity. Some qualitative differences exist between Africa's regional exports and exports to the global …

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Comparative Advantage, Demand for External Finance, and Financial Development

Do, Quy-Toan; Levchenko, Andrei A. - 2006

's external finance need of exports, and relate it to the level of financial development. In order to overcome the simultaneity … construct, for each country and time period, a predicted value of external finance need of exports based on the estimated effect …

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The Poverty Impacts of the Doha Round in Cameroon : The Role of Tax Policy

Emini, Christian Arnault; Cockburn, John; Decaluwe, Bernard - 2005

The aim of this paper is to assess the possible impacts of the Doha Round of negotiations on poverty in Cameroon. During the recent period of economic recovery, Cameroon has enjoyed a sharp decline in poverty with the headcount index falling from 53.3 percent of inhabitants in 1996 to 40.2...

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Prospective Deficits and the Asian Currency Crises

Rebelo, Sergio T.; Eichenbaum, Martin; Burnside, A. Craig - 2005

The recent Asian currency crisis was caused by large prospective fiscal deficits associated with implicit bailout guarantees to failing banking systems. Absent the political will to raise taxes or cut spending, governments must resort to seignorage revenues to pay for the bailout of the banking...

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R&D and Aggregate Fluctuations

Artuc, Erhan - 2014

The research and development (R&D) sector is considered one of the main driving forces of sustainable growth in the long run. The sector, however, also shows excessive volatility which raises interesting questions regarding the sources of this volatility as well as the nature of the relation...

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Finding the Poor vs. Measuring Their Poverty : Exploring the Drivers of Targeting Effectiveness in Indonesia

Bah, Adama - 2018

Indonesia's Unified Database for Social Protection Programs (UDB), among the largest targeting registries in the world, used to …

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