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Does leaving a currency union reduce international trade? This paper reexamines time series estimates of currency … unions on trade from a historical perspective using a dynamic gravity equation and by conducting in-depth case studies of … of currency unions on trade close to one percent. …
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-Saharan Africa and the Pacific, with a focus on the development of foreign trade, fiscal capacity, and education. Although one of the … commodities to satisfy German industrial demand. Instead, trade with its own colonies accounted for only a negligible share of … locally, and plantations, railroads, and trade were expanding—largely due to diamond discoveries in South-West Africa and the …
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Does leaving a currency union reduce international trade? This paper reexamines time series estimates of currency … unions on trade from a historical perspective using a dynamic gravity equation and by conducting in-depth case studies of … of currency unions on trade close to one percent. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10015230888
High-flying illusions on the part of the proponents and grim predictions of the sceptics characterize the controversy about Brexit. The article analyses five issues at stake for the Post-Brexit relationships between Britain, the EU and Africa with a focus on the Commonwealth Sub-Saharan Africa:...
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current international laws provide economic benefits to these countries in terms of increased trade for non-IP goods. As this …
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Blockchain is increasingly viewed as the solution to many trade facilitation problems, but discussions regarding its … the Global South. Legal instruments such as the WTO Trade Facilitation Agreement fall short in providing mechanisms to …
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The current debates revolving around 5G, Huawei, and how they are resolved, are highly visible indicators of the technology based shifts in the global order which are setting the tone for the 21st century. Currently, it seems that many in the US and the PRC are using Cold War and Thucydides Trap...
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The election of Bassirou Diomaye Faye as President of Senegal on March 24, 2024, after a turbulent electoral process, reflects the resilience of Senegal's democratic institutions. It provides an opportunity to strengthen transparent governance and combat inequality. It was the first time since...
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This paper argues that the pattern of decolonisation was a logical consequence of the nature of human capital transfers from the colonisers to the elites of the former colonies, and this shaped the strategic interaction between these two groups. Where the educational practice emphasized the...
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This paper considers conditions of optimality in a co-optive strategy of colonial rule. It proposes a simple model of elite formation emanating from a coloniser's quest to maximise extracted rents from its colonies. The results suggest multiple optimal solutions, depending on the specification...
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