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This paper analyzes recent economic and diplomatic relations between Peru and Asia, with emphasis on China, Japan and … international trade. Although Peru´s relations with Asia tend to reinforce its overall position as a mineral exporter, the country … has not experienced significant “de-industrialization”. On the contrary, through aggressive pursuit of free trade …
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Economic record of human society in the last period has involved an unprecedented growth of world trade, trafficking of … basic raw materials needed for industry and agriculture, and trade in industrial products or food. To the huge volume of … encouraged by factors such as diversification of trade, number of participants in this process and the increasingly complex …
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Many previous studies of the role of trade during the British Industrial Revolution have found little or no role for … trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates. We construct a three-region model of the world in which … that while trade had only a small impact on British welfare in the 1760s, it had a very large impact in the 1850s. This …
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supply side at center stage, affording little or no role for demand or overseas trade. Recently, alternative explanations … have placed an emphasis on the importance of trade with New World colonies, and the expanded supply of raw cotton it … for 1760 and 1850. Neither claim is supported. Trade was vital for the progress of the industrial revolution; but it was …
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find appropriate solutions to the constraints generated by this process. At the same time, the trans-Atlantic trade flows … with the USA). This paper provides an overall image of trade relationships between CEECs and the EU and USA employing …
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economic activity, especially international trade. Yet nothing is known empirically about these effects in large samples. We … study the effects of war on bilateral trade for almost all countries with available data extending back to 1870. Using the … gravity model, we estimate the contemporaneous and lagged effects of wars on the trade of belligerent nations and neutrals …
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Many previous studies of the role of trade during the British Industrial Revolution have found little or no role for … trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates.  We construct a three-region model of the world in which … find that while trade had only a small impact on British welfare in the 1760s, it had a very large impact in the 1850s …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011194334
Many previous studies of the role of trade during the British Industrial Revolution have found little or no role for … trade in explaining British living standards or growth rates. We construct a three-region model of the world in which … that while trade had only a small impact on British welfare in the 1760s, it had a very large impact in the 1850s. This …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011083876
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This study investigates the economic impacts of accession to the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) by the new member … countries of Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam. The trade policies of these countries are examined, and a series of …-specific policy challenges associated with trade liberalization-- such as declining tariff revenues in Cambodia, and the negative …
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