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analysis reveals a rising low-income country trade share around and after China's accession to the World Trade Organization … evidence for sequential sorting into different export-modes according to firm productivity: i) only the most productive firms …
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trade share around and after China's accession to the World Trade Organization. Based on this stylized fact we analyze the …- and high-income destinations is associated with a higher productivity compared to the average productivity measured by …
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In principle, firms in developing countries benefit from the fact that advanced technologies and products have already been developed in industrialized countries and can simply be adopted, a process often referred to as industrial upgrading. But for many firms this advantage remains elusive....
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Raising the productivity content of exports is an important issue for developing and emerging countries. What role do … generalizing the role of foreign direct investment (FDI) in the host country's export productivity level. Using panel data, we … present new empirical evidence suggesting that FDI boosts the overall productivity level of the developing and emerging …
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total factor productivity across countries …
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indicates there are important benefits to be had from wider participation in terms of enhanced productivity, sophistication and …
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This paper analyzes the transmission from global commodity to domestic food prices for a large set of countries. First, a theoretical model is developed to explain price transmission for different trade regimes. Drawing from the competitive storage model under rational expectations, it is shown...
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This paper analyzes the transmission from global commodity to domestic food prices for a large set of countries. First, a theoretical model is developed to explain price transmission for different trade regimes. Drawing from the competitive storage model under rational expectations, it is shown...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014145628
In June 2013, the High-Level Conference of Middle-Income Countries held in Costa Rica, organised by the United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO), ventured an intriguing look into the future of development. In particular, the conference highlighted the role of networks in...
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Investment growth in emerging market and developing economies has slowed sharply since 2010. This paper presents a comprehensive analysis of the causes and implications of this slowdown and presents a menu of policy responses to improve investment growth. It reports four main results. First, the...
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