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The Post-Crisis Sequencing of Economic Integration in Asia: Trade as a Complement to a Monetary Future
Plummer, Michael G.; Wignaraja, Ganeshan - In: Economie Internationale (2006) 107, pp. 59-85
Bilateral and regional cooperation initiatives in Asia have been growing in importance over the last five years. These accords span the real and financial sectors; rather than following the more typical pattern of “trade first, money later”, recent policy initiatives involve the simultaneous...
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Implications of WTO Accession for Selected Domestic Industries of Laos
Lord, Montague J - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
The study examines the implications of Lao PDR’s WTO accessions on the domestic cement, steel bar and brewery industries with a view to developing recommendations on how to concurrently manage the Government’s domestic strategic objectives with the country’s effective involvement in the...
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Job Creation and Persistence in Services and Manufacturing
Acs, Zoltan J.; Armington, Catherine - Max-Planck-Institut für Ökonomik, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft - 2004
services and manufacturing. …
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FDI in Services and India
Mukherjee, Arpita; Goyal, Tanu M. - In: Foreign Trade Review 48 (2013) 3, pp. 413-430
investment flows. In India, services sector is the largest recipient of inward and outward FDI since liberalization. Yet, India … flows and analyzes its international agreements to examine the degree of openness across different services sector, assess … India’s trade agreements and their level of openness in investment in services. The article found that despite progressive …
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Determinants of Export Performance of Pakistan: Evidence from the Firm-Level Data
Din, Musleh ud; Ghani, Ejaz; Mahmood, Tariq - In: The Pakistan Development Review 48 (2009) 3, pp. 227-240
This paper explores the determinants of export performance at the level of firms in respect of their characteristics and supply side constraints. The analysis is based on a survey of export-oriented firms in four major sectors. The results indicate a relationship between the better performance...
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Do Chemical Reactors Hold the Solution for Global Economic Crises?
Shachmurove, Yochanan; Shinnar, Reuel - Department of Economics, University of Pennsylvania - 2012
What can economists learn from dynamic partial control of chemical reactors? Both chemical reactors and the economy involve many variables that are difficult to fully predict or control. Thus, this paper suggests the use of partial control, which involves indentifying only the key variables that...
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Trade in services competitiveness: An assessment methodology
Goswami, Arti Grover; Sáez, Sebastián - In: Journal of International Commerce, Economics and Policy … 05 (2014) 01, pp. 1440001-1
The share of developing countries in exports of world services increased from 15% in 2000 to 21% in 2011. Interestingly …, in many of the developing economies, the growth in services exports is derived from not just traditional services, but … also from modern, high-value, skill-intensive services. Given the rising importance of services, this paper develops a …
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Has Liberalization Strengthened the Link between Services and Manufacturing?
Pasadilla, Gloria O.; Liao, Christine Marie M. - Asia-Pacific Research and Training Network on Trade … - 2007
The study tries to shed some light on this linkage in the Philippine case.
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The Mexican and US economies in the NAFTA era
Vidal, Gregorio - In: Review of Keynesian Economics 2 (2014) 4, pp. 442-455
This article analyses several aspects of the divergent economic evolution of North America at the 20-year mark of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), with a particular focus on the Mexican economy. Mexico's principal economic role in NAFTA has been that of a secondary exporter, with...
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Trade Collapse, Trade Relapse and Global Production Networks: Supply Chains in the Great Recession
Escaith, Hubert - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2009
Global supply chains reshaped international trade since the end 1980s. Their role in explaining the trade collapse that followed the financial crisis of September 2008 was determinant. Because production is internationally diversified, adverse external shocks affect firms not only through final...
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