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) market access for products originating in Least developed countries (LDCs) on the latter's export performance. The analysis … a positive effect on LDCs' export performance on primary products; the average effect on manufacturing exports has been … statistically nil. In the short and medium term, this decision has exerted a positive effect on LDCs' merchandise export performance …
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This article investigates empirically the interaction between countries' Comparative Advantage Following (CAF) development strategy and Aid for Trade (AfT ) interventions in influencing the extent of structural change in production. Based on the Generalized Methods of Moments and an unbalanced...
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This article investigates empirically the interaction between countries' Comparative Advantage Following (CAF) development strategy and Aid for Trade (AfT ) interventions in influencing the extent of structural change in production. Based on the Generalized Methods of Moments and an unbalanced...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012256013
Trade has been recognized in the 2030 development Agenda as well as in the Addis Ababa Agenda for Action as an important means for the implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). This paper questions whether trade openness could be an important driver of financing for development...
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The present study is an extension of the work on the effect of multilateral trade liberalization (MTL) on export … product diversification undertaken by Gnangnon (2019b). The analysis focuses on the effect of MTL on services export … diversification. The analysis has revealed that MTL is associated with greater services export diversification in both developed and …
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Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) accord a special attention to the integration of the least developed countries (LDCs) into the global trading system. A major Decision in favour of LDCs adopted by WTO Trade Ministers was the one concerning the Duty-Free-Quota-Free (DFQF) market...
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The least developed countries (LDCs) are weakly integrated into the global trading system. To foster their participation in international trade in services, the Members of the World Trade Organization (WTO) adopted in 2011 a Decision ("LDC Services Waiver") that allows any WTO Member to offer...
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Existing studies on the determinants of countries' accession to the World Trade Organization (WTO) have neglected the role that Aid for Trade (AfT) flows might have played in states' accession process to the WTO. The present study aims to fill this void in the literature by investigating the...
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This paper has investigated the effect of countries' structural economic vulnerability (EVI) on their participation in international trade, using an unbalanced panel dataset of 118 countries over the period from 1996 to 2018, and the two-step system generalized method of moments estimator. It...
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the utilization of other NRTPs than on the utilization of GSP programs. Finally, beneficiary countries' level of export …
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