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The Arab Republic of Egypt is yet to meet its exports potential, which has been historically hampered by several … export performance. This paper analyzes Egypt's exports along three dimensions that are key for export performance and future …
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A unilateral trade reform generates two opposite effects: market access expansion and strengthening of competitive pressures in the liberalized market. Using detailed trade and firm-level data from France, the authors investigate how French firms' product scope and export sales changed after...
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This paper builds on previous studies to uncover evidence suggesting that cyclical fluctuations in returns to schooling are determined by fluctuations in foreign demand, which tend to be positively correlated with returns to schooling. The effect of export fluctuations (driven by changes in...
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external demand (2008-2009). Export entrepreneurship is equated with the extensive margin of exports, namely the advent of new …) the low growth of exports during the global recession of 2008-2009 in Latin America and the Caribbean was due to lower … growth in exports of incumbent firms' pre-existing products and destinations, while new products and destinations tended to …
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inequality and international migration. This paper explores the skill premium and its link to exports in Latin America, thus … are important in explaining skill premiums. The analysis also suggests that the incidence of exports within industries … underlying industry and country characteristics that explain skill premiums. In particular, higher sectoral exports are …
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exports since 1995, yet it exhibits lower international engagement in global value chains, but tends to be stronger as a …, and services sectors have been important for growing the indirect value added in global value chain?oriented exports. A …
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, exports, and innovation, are increasingly shared by services sector firms. Yet, a given service subsector is unlikely to …
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Like many countries in Sub-Saharan Africa, Senegal has struggled to develop its industrial sector in the face of import competition. For basic food products, there is an implicit trade-off between the objectives of maintaining employment and lowering the cost of living, both of which figure...
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This paper focuses on three interrelated questions on urbanization and the geography of development. First, although we herald cities with their industrial bases as "engines of growth," does industrialization in fact drive urbanization? While such relationships appear in the data, the process is...
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This paper studies the role of public policy in promoting industrial transformation from an imitationbased, low-skill economy to an innovation-based, high-skill economy, where technological progress now occurs through the domestic invention of ideas. Industrial transformation is measured by...
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