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Clustering value-added trade : structural and policy dimensions
Escaith, Hubert; Gaudin, Hadrien - 2014 - Manuscript date: 2 June 2014
A second approach focuses on the relationships existing between the variables themselves, using multi-criteria and graph analysis. Natural resources endowments, on the one hand, and services orientation, on the other one, are among the most determinant variables for defining Trade in Value Added...
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Return of the tariffs : the interwar trade collapse revisited
Adam, Marc Christopher - 2019
Was the collapse of world trade between 1928 and 1937 caused by higher transport costs, increased protectionism or the …
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Electricity Cooperation in South Asia : Barriers to Cross-Border Trade
Singh, Anoop - 2019
The South Asia Region (SAR) continues to face electricity shortages, underinvestment and challenges to improve energy access. Strengthening cooperation for cross-border electricity trade in South Asia makes it possible for the region to take advantage of significant benefits from greater...
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Tariff Liberalization and the Growth of World Trade : A Comparative Historical Analysis of the Multilateral Trading System
Nenci, Silvia - 2012
for over 60 per cent) in this period. The effect of tariff liberalization on trade growth is analyzed empirically using … Tariffs and Trade/World Trade Organization system in trade liberalization; however, it underlines the importance of a … formalized multilateral trading system, not so much for tariff liberalization, but for building a virtuous process of …
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African Agency and EU-African Economic Partnership Agreements
Kohnert, Dirk - In: Africa Spectrum 49 (2014) 3, pp. 149-155
This article provides a review of literature on African Agency and the drivers of change within EU–African trade politics in negotiations on Economic Partnership Agreements between the European Union and African governments.
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Trade in value added : concepts, estimation and analysis
Javorsek, Marko; Camacho, Ignacio - 2015
This working paper introduces the concept of Trade in Value Added (TiVA) and presents an initial analysis of TiVA for selected regional ESCAP economies. The paper introduces Global Value Chains (GVCs) and issues for the measurement of trade statistics due to proliferation of GVCs. It further...
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Positioning on the global value chain map : where do you want to be?
Van der Marel, Erik - 2015
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Trading Costs and Competitiveness in Global Value Chains
Escaith, Hubert - 2015
When firms trade in “tasks” rather than in final products, the weight of tariffs and transportation costs on factory prices and on international competitiveness is magnified. With goods crossing national borders many times before reaching the final consumer, these trading costs are also...
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Least-developed countries' trade during the "super-cycle" and the great trade collapse : patterns and stylized facts
Escaith, Hubert; Tamenu, Bekele - 2013 - Manuscript date: November 27, 2013
Notwithstanding some progress in market and product diversification - including services - LDCs remain particularly vulnerable to external shocks. With the exception of 2006-2008, the LDCs as a group have systematically recorded a trade deficit. The 2008-2009 global crisis and the bumpy recovery...
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Competitiveness of Textile and Apparel Industry of Bangladesh with China in International Trade
Hossain, Md Ekram; Dechun, HUANG; Tran, Quangdung - 2021
This paper used the Balassa Revealed Comparative Advantage (RCA) Index and the Spearman’s Rank Correlation Coefficient (rs) to analyze the situation of competition and complementariness in the textile and apparel (T&A) industry between Bangladesh and China in international trade. Data of...
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