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Countries’ Safety and Competitiveness, and the Estimation of Current Account Misalignments
Sastre, Teresa - 2014
Current account imbalances and their sustainability are among the most debated international policy issues. Through the recently designed External Balance Assessment methodology (EBA), the IMF estimates the impact of several countries' fundamentals and policies on their current account balance,...
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Measurement of Global Value Chain (GVC) Participation in World Development Report 2020
Dutta, Sourish - 2021
As we can understand with the spread of GVCs, a lot of new questions emerge regarding the measurement of participation … and positioning in the globalised production process. The World Development Report (WDR) 2020 explains the GVC phenomenon … and then focus on participation and the prospects especially in a world of change in technology. From the overview section …
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Reading the footprints : how foreign investors shape countries' participation in global value chains
Buelens, Christian; Tirpák, Marcel - 2017
We show that traditional gravity variables play a significant role in explaining trade flows related to global value chain participation. We find evidence that cooperation costs - measured by linguistic and geographical proximity - are more relevant for trade that reflects cross-border...
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How Strong Do Global Commodity Prices Influence Domestic Food Prices in Developing Countries? A Global Price Transmission and Vulnerability Mapping Analysis
Kalkuhl, Matthias - 2014
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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Foreign Direct Investment and Developing Countries Participation in Global Value Chains (GVC)
Wonyra, Kwami Ossadzifo - 2020
Could foreign direct investment (FDI) contribute to improving developing countries' participation in global value chains (GVC)? This is the main issue addressed in this paper. Indeed, FDI seems to be, at least theoretically, a mean to speed up developing countries' participation in GVCs in a...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012825914
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Economic and social effects of the COVID-19 pandemic and the future of global value chains
Dünhaupt, Petra; Herr, Hansjörg; Mehl, Fabian; … - 2021
some parts of the world that also dwarfed anything seen up to that point. Also, the massive differences in how countries … although the COVID-19 pandemic might not fundamentally alter the current globalization model, it could serve as a catalyst for …
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Digital de-industrialization, global value chains, and structural transformation : empirical evidence from low- and middle-income countries
Banga, Karishma; Harbansh, Pankhury; Singh, Surendar - 2023
Digitalization and shifting patterns of globalization are fast changing the rules of the game for countries embarking … Transformation Database with the UNCTAD EORA data set, World Development Indicators, and Penn World Tables. Structural transformation …
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Participation of developing countries in global value chains : implications for trade and traderelated policies
Kowalski, Przemyslaw; Lopez Gonzalez, Javier; … - 2015
Although global value chains (GVCs) are often considered a defining feature of the current wave of globalisation, little is known about: i) what drives GVC participation; ii) what the benefits associated to growing participation are; or iii) how developing countries engage and benefit from GVCs....
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Debunking Protectionist Myths : Free Trade, the Developing World, and Prosperity
Panagariya, Arvind - 2020
Second World War and of China during more recent decades as being the result of selective protection and industrial targeting …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012846238
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Globalization and the Increasing Correlation between Capital Inflows and Outflows
Davis, Scott; Van Wincoop, Eric - 2022
127 advanced and developing countries. We provide evidence that this is a result of an increase in financial globalization … (stock of external assets and liabilities). This dominates the effect of an increase in trade globalization (exports plus … shocks we show that the theoretical impact of financial and trade globalization on the correlation between capital inflows …
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