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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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in exports across trading partners should occur on the extensive margin. This paper subjects this theoretical prediction … to a reality check drawing upon the World Bank's Exporter Dynamics Database (EDD) which has firm-level exports from 50 … developing countries to all destinations. Around 50 percent of the variation in exports across trading partners is shown to be …
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instance). This positive association is particularly important for the exports of differentiated products, suggesting that …
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There is a large body of research that explores international trade as a source of the dispersion in income levels and growth performances across countries. The trade liberalization policies undertaken between 1950 and 2006 led to an almost 30 fold growth in the volume of international trade....
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exports, through the intensive and extensive margins of trade. The number of export promotion agencies has increased …
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The short-term impact of Brexit on goods exports is assessed using the Overall Trade Restrictiveness Index of the … United Kingdom's exports to the European Union to decrease by 2 percent, and the prospect of a major trade collapse post …
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data show that, in international comparison, Zambian exports are exceptionally concentrated (on mining products). This … reliance has been increasing in recent years. Zambia's exports are also characterized by a high level of churning of firms and … inputs significantly inhibit diversified and stable exports. The econometric analysis is complemented with a qualitative …
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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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The study presents a comprehensive review of developing country trade policies and market access issues as they evolved over the period 1990-2012. The main findings are, first, that applied tariffs as well as traditional core non-tariff measures have declined significantly over time in both...
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international prices that provides a disincentive to exports in favor of non-tradable and domestic-oriented sectors. By bringing …
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