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GVC Participation and Deep Integration in Brazil
Hollweg, Claire Honore - 2018
Co-operation and Development/World Trade Organization's Trade in Value Added Database to assess Brazil's current … for Brazil to increase global value chain?related trade. One avenue to raise participation in global value chains is … through (deeper) preferential trade agreements, and to this end the paper characterizes the level of integration of Brazil …
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How Important are Spillovers from Major Emerging Markets?
Huidrom, Raju - 2017
The seven largest emerging market economies -- China, India, Brazil, Russia, Mexico, Indonesia, and Turkey …
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A Bit Far? Geography, International Economic Agreements, and Foreign Direct Investment : Evidence from Emerging Markets
Gomez-Mera, Laura - 2019
of 700 firms from four emerging (or newly-emerged) economies: Brazil, India, the Republic of Korea, and South Africa. The …
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Measuring What Matters in Global Value Chains and Value-Added Trade
Borin, Alessandro - 2019
The spread of global value chains (GVCs) has given rise to new statistical tools, the Inter-Country Input-Output tables and new analytical frameworks aimed at properly identifying production linkages between and within economies. However, several important questions remain unaddressed. This...
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Trade, Global Value Chains and GDP Comovemement : An Empirical Investigation
de Soyres, Francois - 2019
This paper provides up-to-date characterization of the association between trade and GDP comovement -- also called the trade comovement slope -- for 150 countries from 1962 to 2011. The paper shows that trade is significantly linked to more GDP correlation, either directly through bilateral...
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Economic Upgrading Through Global Value Chain Participation : Which Policies Increase the Value Added Gains?
Kummritz, Victor - 2018
The emergence of global value chains has opened up new ways to achieve development and industrialization. However, new evidence shows that not all countries have gained from participating in global value chains, and that country-specific characteristics matter for economic upgrading in global...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012920479
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Services Trade and Global Value Chains
Heuser, Cecilia - 2018
Services play a role in global value chains in many ways, similar to goods. But services deserve special attention because of how they are transacted, how they affect downstream sectors, how they are regulated, and how international cooperation can contribute to integrating national markets....
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The Extent of Engagement in Global Value Chains by Firms in Rwanda
Frazer, Garth - 2019
Using administrative data for an exhaustive sample of formally registered firms, reveals that the engagement of Rwandan firms in global value chains (GVCs) is remarkably limited. The paper documents several patterns of firm-level exports and compares firm characteristics between exporters and...
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How Did the Great Recession Affect Different Types of Workers? Evidence from 17 Middle-Income Countries
Cho, Yoonyoung - 2011
This paper examines how different types of workers in seventeen middle-income countries were affected by labor market retrenchment during the great recession. Average employment growth slowed dramatically, particularly for wage and industrial sector workers, with corresponding increases in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013129054
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Financial Globalization in Emerging Economies : Much Ado About Nothing?
Levy-Yeyati, Eduardo Levy - 2014
Financial globalization, defined as global linkages through cross-border financial flows, has become increasingly relevant for emerging markets as they integrate financially with the rest of the world. This paper argues that, because of the way it is often measured, it has also led to the...
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