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China's global growth and Latin American exports
Jenkins, Rhys - 2008
China's global expansion has led to concerns amongst other developing country exporters that they will be displaced by … which countries face from China, which is then applied to empirical data on US imports from China and 18 Latin American … countries. It also presents new estimates of the impact of China on the value of Latin American exports to the US over the past …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010273405
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Entrepreneurship and competitiveness dynamics in Latin America
Ács, Zoltán J.; Amorós, José Ernesto - 2008
This study analyses the relationship between entrepreneurial dynamics and the level of competitiveness in Latin American countries. Based on a stage of economic development model we demonstrate that Latin American countries under the model followed different paths related to competitiveness....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010271776
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Potential switchovers in comparative advantage: Patterns of industrial convergence
Landesmann, Michael; Stehrer, Robert - 2000
Although there exists a vast literature on convergence and divergence of income levels across countries or regions at the aggregate level, there is only little work on convergence and/or diver- gence processes of productivity and wage levels at the more disaggregated industrial level. These are...
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The effects of trade, aid, and investment on China's image in developing countries
Eichenauer, Vera Z.; Fuchs, Andreas; Brückner, Lutz - 2018
One goal of China's Go Out policy is to create goodwill in countries around the world. At the same time, China … attitudes of individuals in developing countries towards China at both the national and subnational level. Using repeated cross … investment from China to Latin America affect opinions on China within 18 Latin American countries over the 2002-2013 period. We …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011853170
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Intercontinental evidence on socioeconomic status and early childhood cognitive skills: Is Latin America different?
Lopez Boo, Florencia - 2013
This paper documents disparities in cognitive development-as measured by a receptive vocabulary test-between children from households with high and low socioeconomic status (SES) in two different phases of childhood (before and after early school years) in four developing countries: Peru,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314090
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Governance, democracy and poverty reduction: lessons drawn from household surveys in sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America
Herrera, Javier; Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, … - 2005
Public statistics face quite a challenge when it comes to measuring new dimensions of development (institutions, governance, and social and political participation). To take up this challenge, modules on Governance, Democracy and Multiple Dimensions of Poverty have been appended to household...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010265067
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Learning to export and learning by exporting: The case of Ethiopian manufacturing
Siba, Eyerusalem; Gebreeyesus, Mulu - 2014
In this study, we investigate the relationship between exporting and firm performance using a longer panel dataset of Ethiopian manufacturing firms for the period 1996 - 2009. We test two hypotheses regarding exporting: selection into exporting versus learning by exporting. According to the...
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Wieviel Potenzial steckt in den BRICS?
Ebner, Verena; Mumme, Christina; Lueghammer, Wolfgang; … - 2014
Die vorliegende Studie zum Potenzial der BRICS-Staaten für die österreichische Außenwirtschaft diskutiert in einem ersten Schritt aktuelle makroökonomische Entwicklungen und strukturelle Aspekte der fünf BRICS-Staaten sowie die damit verbundenen Herausforderungen für die Zukunft. In einem...
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Can Belgian firms cope with the Chinese dragon and the Asian tigers? The export performance of multi-product firms on foreign markets
Abraham, Filip; Van Hove, Jan - 2010
are reduced by Asian competition. Especially the competitive pressure caused by mainland China and Hong Kong is strong …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011506724
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Export promotion organizations in Latin America and the Caribbean: An institutional portrait
Jordana, Jacint; Volpe Martincus, Christian; Gallo, Andrés - 2010
Virtually all Latin American and Caribbean countries have established specialized organizations to promote their exports. Existing analyses of these organizations are at best partial and fragmentary. This paper aims at overcoming these limitations of the literature by presenting a consistent,...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011314068