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China : Global Crisis Avoided, Robust Economic Growth Sustained
Vincelette, Gallina Andronova - 2017
China's medium-term prospects for growth, poverty reduction, and development. The paper reviews China's pre-crisis growth … immediate impact of the global crisis on China's economic performance in 2009 and its likely impact in the short run. It then … paper explores China's medium-term growth prospects in light of the crisis and the key policies for moving to a robust and …
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The Growth of China and India in World Trade : Opportunity or Threat for Latin America and the Caribbean?
Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2016
This paper studies the relationship between the growth of China and India in world merchandise trade and Latin American … and Caribbean commercial flows from two perspectives. First, the authors focus on the opportunity that China and India … and Caribbean exports of non-fuel merchandise. In general, China's and to a large extent India's growing presence in world …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012747645
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The Global Apparel Value Chain, Trade and the Crisis : Challenges and Opportunities for Developing Countries
Gereffi, G. - 2017
industry. On the country side, China has been the big winner, although Bangladesh, India, and Vietnam have also continued to …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976572
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The Impacts of Trade Facilitation Measures on International Trade Flows
Sá Porto, Paulo Costacurta de - 2017
This paper analyzes the impacts of selected trade facilitation measures on international trade flows. A gravity model is used to estimate four equations: a pooled cross-section model; a fixed-effects model; a random effects model; and a Poisson maximum likelihood estimator. The contribution of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012971414
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Measuring the Impacts of Global Trade Reform with Optimal Aggregators of Distortions
Laborde, David - 2017
Traditional weighted-average measures of trade distortions are widely used in analyzing global and regional reforms, despite well-known deficiencies. This paper develops and applies optimal aggregators for the real-world case of multiple countries and commodities with much more detailed...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975999
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Trade and Regional Inequality
Rodríguez-Pose, Andrés - 2017
This paper examines the relationship between openness and within-country regional inequality across 28 countries over the period 1975-2005, paying special attention to whether increases in global trade affect the developed and developing world differently. Using a combination of static and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976486
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Global Recessions
Kose, M. Ayhan - 2020
The world economy has experienced four global recessions over the past seven decades: in 1975, 1982, 1991, and 2009. During each of these episodes, annual real per capita global gross domestic product contracted, and this contraction was accompanied by weakening of other key indicators of global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012840241
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Decomposing the Great Trade Collapse : Products, Prices, and Quantities in the 2008-2009 Crisis
Haddad, Mona - 2017
The authors identifies a new set of stylized facts on the 2008-2009 trade collapse that they hope can be used to shed light on the importance of demand and supply-side factors in explaining the fall in trade. In particular, they decompose the fall in international trade into product entry and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012975852
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Developing Countries and Monitoring WTO Commitments in Response to the Global Economic Crisis
Bown, Chad P. - 2017
This paper examines the role of the public sector in providing additional information to exporters in developing countries as they seek to monitor and keep open their access to foreign markets by using the rules of the WTO system. It highlights new information generation and dissemination...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976545
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Trade Crisis and Recovery : Restructuring of Global Value Chains
Milberg, William - 2017
The recent large and rapid slowdown in economic activity has resulted in even larger and more rapid declines in international trade. As world trade is set to rebound, this paper addresses three questions: (i) Will trade volumes rebound in a symmetric fashion as world economic growth rebounds?...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012976553