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A multi-religious consensus on the ethics of sustainable development: Reflections of the Ethics in Action initiative
Annett, Anthony M.; Sachs, Jeffrey; Sánchez Sorondo, … - 2017
The challenges of sustainable development are primarily ethical in nature. Guided by a ceaseless quest for profit, today's global economy is synonymous with vast amounts of exclusion, indignity, and environmental devastation. To succeed, therefore, the Sustainable Development Goals require...
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Trade dependence, liberalization, and exports diversification in developing countries
Osakwe, Patrick N.; Santos-Paulino, Amelia U.; Dogan, Berna - In: Journal of African Trade 5 (2018) 1/2, pp. 19-34
This paper explores the relationship between trade, trade liberalization, and exports diversification in developing and Sub-Saharan African (SSA) countries. The non-parametric analyses indicate that developing countries that are more open to trade (based on trade intensity) tend to have more...
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Policing reforms and economic development in African states. Understanding the linkages: empowering change
Marenin, Otwin - 2013
The notion that economic development in African states requires minimal levels of security has become widely accepted in the international development community. Reforming non-functioning policing systems is an important step toward achieving security, yet the experience of changing policing...
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Does trade cause long-run development? Theory and evidence from countries behind the Suez channel
Gerritse, Michiel - 2015
Does trade improve institutions and contribute to long run growth? I develop a theory of trade, in which trade liberalization provides incentive to change institutions in two ways. On the one hand, trade leads to specialization according to comparative advantage, expanding the industries that do...
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Love of Variety and Gains from Trade
Gouel, Christophe; Jean, Sébastien - 2021
This paper shows how gains from trade are conditioned by love of variety, defined as the extent to which an additional product variety generates benefits in either final or intermediate consumption. We develop a multi-country, multi-sector gravity trade model where love of variety is...
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Education, Governance, and Trade- and Distance-related Technology Diffusion: Accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP Gap, and the TFP Impact of South America’s Greater Dista...
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2017
This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976-2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model’s explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011729231
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Education, Governance, and Trade- and Distance-Related Technology Diffusion: Accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP Gap, and the TFP Impact of South America's Greater Dista...
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2017
This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology … preceding the Great Recession (1976–2007) in a new model that integrates models of trade-related and distance …-related international technology diffusion. Our model's explanatory power is 38% (62%) greater than that of the main trade-related (distance …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011744761
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Der Trade-off zwischen deutschen Direktinvestitionen und Exporten: Wie wichtig sind die verschiedenen Dimensionen der Distanz?
Jungmittag, Andre - 2014
Zur Versorgung auslandischer Märkte können Unternehmen zwischen Exporten, der Produktion in Zweigniederlassungen und Lizenzvergaben wählen. Mit Blick auf die ersteren beiden Möglichkeiten wird in der jüngeren Literatur vor allem die Nähe-Konzentrationshypothese diskutiert, die besagt, dass...
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Information frictions, internet and the relationship between distance and trade
Akerman, Anders; Leuven, Edwin; Mogstad, Magne - 2017
that adoption of broadband internet makes trade patterns more sensitive to distance and economic size. Going from no … broadband availability to full coverage increases the magnitude of the elasticity of trade with respect to distance by 0.12, and … the elasticity of trade with respect to destination size by 0.06. For distance, this means that an increase in internet …
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Markups, Quality, and Trade Costs
Chen, Natalie; Juvenal, Luciana - 2019
bilateral distance, tariffs, and the quality of their exports. Under the assumption that trade costs are both ad valorem and per … unit, our model predicts that markups rise with distance and fall with tariffs, but these effects are heterogeneous and are …
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