Organization of African Unity, and the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa and subregional institutions - the Economic …

This paper provides new insights into how financial globalization relates to international trade. Exploiting unique … after entry, but less so. Overall, results suggest that foreign banks facilitate trade in emerging markets by increasing the …

This paper uses a general equilibrium trade framework to estimate the contribution of transport infrastructure to …

East Asia, for long the epitome of successful engagement in trade, faces serious challenges: technological change that … global trade giant, which is fundamentally altering the trading patterns and opportunities of its neighbors. The second is … the asymmetric implementation of national reform – in goods trade and investment versus services – which is affecting the …

economic growth and their search for alternative models of economic development.Expanding South-South trade relationships … this question, this paper first documents the dynamic evolution of South-South trade in past decades and puts forward some … bilateral trade relationships among a sample of developing Asian and South American countries and two key Northern markets, the …

This paper contains an empirical analysis on the determinants of trade flows in South America through the estimation of … research attempts to test the hypotheses of the augmented Gravity Model with regards to trade flows. A panel data analysis … that influence the most the flows of trade are geographic factors, followed by income. For the MERCOSUR countries, there is …

inclusive growth yet little attention has been paid to it in sub-Saharan Africa (SSA). Motivated by the dearth of studies on SSA …

coming into force of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA), and the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic. A …

happen. Our analysis is based on a large panel dataset of countries between 1950 and 2014. We instrument actual trade with … predicted trade constructed by estimating a time-varying gravity equation similar to Feyrer (2009). We find that economic … integration has a positive effect on democracy, driven by trade with democratic partners and stronger for countries with lower …