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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...
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capital needs of the firm. The hypothesis that working capital matters in the firm's exporting decision is explored in two … ways: first, by articulating a dynamic working capital model of the firm that incorporates the firm's export decision …. Secondly, by testing the hypothesis empirically using a unique firm level dataset from Bangladesh, where issues of financial …
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This paper focuses on the institutional arrangements needed for facilitating regional electricity cooperation. The paper begins by discussing the theory of international trade cooperation in electricity, with a view to discussing what preconditions might be important in facilitating wide area...
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This paper assesses the impact of water supply variability on treaty cooperation between international bilateral river basin riparian states. Climate change is anticipated to change the variability of water supply, as well as its expected magnitude. Previous studies have focused mainly on water...
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Climate-driven water variability is a natural phenomenon observed across river basins, but predicted to increase due to climate change. Environmental change of this kind may aggravate political tensions, especially in regions that are not equipped with an appropriate institutional apparatus....
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-digit inflation in the 1980s. Several other countries--for example, Colombia--have experienced moderate inflation for prolonged …
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economies in the water industry in four countries (Brazil, Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam) that differ substantially in economic … find evidence of economies of scale in Colombia, Moldova, and Vietnam, implying the existence of a natural monopoly. In …
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) estimates obtained at the firm level for Colombia between 1983 and 1998, and finds that more productive sectors receive more … and tariffs is maintained after the author includes in his political economy model a learning-by-doing motive of …
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Colombia has reduced extreme poverty in the past 16 years by almost half, moderate poverty by 22 percentage points, and … of the distributional impacts of taxes and expenditures in Colombia in 2017. It makes a methodological comparison with … results suggest that the combined effect of taxes and social spending in Colombia contributes to poverty reduction between 0 …
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. This paper analyzes the distributional effects of a newly established bus rapid transit system in Barranquilla, Colombia …
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