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Small African Economies in a More Uncertain Global Trade Environment : The Potential Impact of Post-Agoa Scenarios for Lesotho
Maliszewska, Maryla - 2019
This paper provides a forward-looking view of trade and its relevance for Lesotho?s medium- and long-term development. It does this through computable general equilibrium analysis of potential impacts based on specific trade-related scenarios. The scenarios include the potential loss of American...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012869822
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The Volatility of International Trade Flows in the 21st Century : Whose Fault is it Anyway?
Bennett, Federico Roberto - 2017
After investment, exports and imports are the most volatile components of aggregate demand within countries. Moreover, the volatility of growth and the volatility of trade flows tend to move together; they declined from the 1990s until 2009, followed by an increase since 2009. This paper...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966001
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Does Migration Foster Exports? Evidence from Africa
Ehrhart, Helene - 2017
This paper aims at assessing the impact of migration on export performance and more particularly the effect of African migrants on African trade. Relying on a new data set on international bilateral migration recently released by the World Bank spanning from 1980 to 2010, the authors estimate a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012973623
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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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Are All Trade Agreements Equal? The Role of Distance in Shaping the Effect of Economic Integration Agreements on Trade Flows
Freeman, Rebecca - 2017
How does geographic distance affect the impact of trade agreements on bilateral exports, and through what channels? This paper examines this questions in a gravity model context for different types of goods for 185 countries over the period 1965-2010. Three stylized facts emerge. First, although...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012968195
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The Impact of Mining on Spatial Inequality Recent Evidence from Africa
Addison, Tony - 2017
This paper investigates the relationship between mining and spatial inequality in Africa during 2001-12. The … socioeconomic development in Africa …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012963654
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The Changing Structure of Africa's Economies
Diao, Xinshen - 2017
Data from the Groningen Growth and Development Center's Africa Sector Database and the Demographic and Health Surveys … reveals that much of Africa's recent growth and poverty reduction has been associated with a substantive decline in the share … shifts in employment shares for future growth and development in Africa south of the Sahara …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964338
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What Do Teachers Know and Do? Does it Matter? Evidence from Primary Schools in Africa
Bold, Tessa - 2017
service delivery in Sub-Saharan Africa. They also provide a lens through which the growing experimental and quasi …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012964571