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This book looks at four main questions relevant to the discussion of implementation and effectiveness of aid for trade. • How severe are the various possible constraints to trade expansion? • How different are the constraints to imports from the constraints to exports? • What impact would...
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This article discusses Africa's deepening marginalization in the globalization of production, finance, and labor. It … underscores critical development issues that result from, and are exacerbated by, globalization in the context of unequal global …
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This paper develops a model to study the impact of trade costs on developing countries' industrialization when sequential production is networked in global value chains (GVCs). In a two-country setting, a decrease in trade costs of intermediate goods is associated with South joining and moving...
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The purpose of the chapter is to analyze Africa's economic successes in the past half century, to understand not only what made it possible but also and more importantly what risk factors may eventually bring it to an end or compromise it. While it may not be possible for Africa to alter, for...
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historical path dependencies, colonialism, trade policy and domestic institutions on the EU and African side. While trade is … often plagued by a long history of extractive institutions, both politically and economically, which lead to a vicious cycle …
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presenting a definition of globalization which shows how global market could be a potential instrument to promote socio …-economic development. The definition of globalization here presented is composed of three distinct but complementary parts. Globalization … International Organizations have to guarantee that every agent respects national and international laws. Therefore, globalization is …
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investing in intra- SSA infrastructure or through increased SSA integration) will have substantial positive effects on its …
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a new paradigm of domestic demand-led growth. Globalization has so diversified global economic activity that no country …
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This paper surveys the literature on trade and development, especially on complementarities associated with trade infrastructure. The empirical literature shows that, on average, trade causes growth, but the relationship is far from homogeneous across countries since initial conditions matter....
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Proponents of trade liberalization routinely defend international trade institutions as engines of economic growth that … benefit everyone. How trade proponents justify trade institutions matters because their justificatory rhetoric leads to …. This paper examines the theory and operation of international trade law and institutions and questions whether these …
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