Global production or value networks have gained significantly in importance as organizational forms of economic … activity over the past decades. A by-product of this development, however, despite the widespread concern it has caused among …

International trade patterns at the product level are surprisingly dynamic. The majority of trade relationships exist … characteristics, product type and market structure. Specifically, I show that the duration of exporting a product to Germany is longer … market and are characterized by two-way trade. …

There is no consensus about how globalization -trade and foreign investments ?affects poverty reduction. Using … household survey data, this study contributes to the empirical literature on globalization and poverty by analyzing the … household-level implications of increased foreign investments and trade in the horticulture sector in Senegal. In many aspects …

Africa. In this paper we present a two region product life cycle model of global specialization and trade. In it we analyse … protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to … follow strategies of export driven industrialization. If we consider the share of non-OECD countries in global trade in …

globalization: a global-Asian era. This new era is likely to be distinct from any of the earlier phases of globalization and China …. Having discussed the nature and dynamics of the GAE, the paper turns to sketch a series of vectors (trade, aid and energy …

-owned enterprises while encouraging growth of the private sector. Following an East Asian model, Vietnam has opened its domestic market …

We present, extend and estimate a model of international trade with firm heterogeneity in the tradition of Melitz (2003 … prices, productivity levels and markups as functions of openness to trade at a sectoral level. The theory lends itself … naturally to a difference in differences estimation, with international differences in trade openness at the sector level …

rapid increase in the share of China in world trade. As the world is taking the full measure of this phenomenon, tensions … therefore provides an assessment of China’s “natural” place in the world economy based on a new set of trade integration … indicators. These indicators are used as a benchmark in order to examine whether China’s share in international trade is …