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North-South technology spillovers: the relative impact of openness and foreign R&D
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2008
larger productivity gains from trade liberalization than previously thought. …
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North-South trade-related technology diffusion: Virtuous growth cycles in Latin America
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2010
This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010269768
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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects: Potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)
Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014
Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic performance - affordable and efficient public...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010435379
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Reaping the Benefits of Deeper Euro-Med Integration Through Trade Facilitation
Bourdet, Yves; Persson, Maria - 2011
The current political turmoil in the Arab world has contributed to renewed interest in the Barcelona Process. This paper explores whether deeper integration in the form of trade facilitation - i.e. improved and simplified trade procedures - could be an important part of a reform agenda. Adopting...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010320229
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The KOF Globalisation Index - revisited
Gygli, Savina; Haelg, Florian; Sturm, Jan-Egbert - 2018
In this paper we present and describe the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring globalisation for every country in the world along the economic, social and political dimension. The original index was introduced by Dreher (2006) and updated in Dreher et al....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011969269
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Institutions, infrastructure, and trade
Francois, Joseph F.; Manchin, Miriam - 2007
We work with a panel of bilateral trade flows from 1988 to 2002, exploring the influence of infrastructure, institutional quality, colonial and geographic context, and trade preferences on the pattern of bilateral trade. We are interested in threshold effects, and so emphasize those cases where...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010294570
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International trade and its effects on economic growth in China
Sun, Peng; Heshmati, Almas - 2010
the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … extensively. This research then evaluates the effects of international trade on China's economic growth through examining … improvement in productivity. Both econometric and non-parametric approaches are applied based on a 6-year balanced panel data of …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010274572
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The rise and fall of export-led growth
Palley, Thomas I. - 2011
This paper traces the rise of export-led growth as a development paradigm and argues that it is exhausted owing to changed conditions in emerging market (EM) and developed economies. The global economy needs a recalibration that facilitates a new paradigm of domestic demand-led growth....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333045
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Tariffs, Social Status, and Gender in India
Anukriti, S; Kumler, Todd J. - 2014
This paper shows that trade policy can have significant intergenerational distributional effects across gender and social strata. We compare women and births in rural Indian districts more or less exposed to tariff cuts. For low socioeconomic status women, tariff cuts increase the likelihood of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010333315
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Neocolonialism or Balanced Partnership? Reframing Agricultural Relations Between the EU and Africa
Lungu, Ioana - 2017
The media narratives with respect to EU external policies and their effects on developing countries generally paint a picture of unequal power dynamics and negative externalities, particularly with respect to international trade and land grabbing. In this paper, I use trade data to argue that...
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