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Mercosur : Implications for Growth in Member Countries
Connolly, Michelle; Gunther, Jenessa - 2008
The South American customs union known as Mercosur has contributed significantly to regional trade liberalization. But by encouraging trade within the group at the expense of trade with nonmembers, Mercosur may limit member countries' access to high-technology imports, an important stimulus to...
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Distribution and growth in an economy with limited needs
Saint-Paul, Gilles - 2001
knowledge sector is bounded, as productivity increases, the economy moves from a Solovian zone where wages increase with … productivity, to a Marxian zone where they paradoxically decline with productivity. This is because as consumption of a given good … more unevenly distributed than productivity, technical progress always increases inequality. Redistribution from profits to …
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Trade and Growth Under Limited Liberalization : The Case of Belarus
Bakanova, Marina; Vinhas de Souza, Lucio Vinhas - 2002
This paper studies the connection between trade and growth in the context of a partial and inconsistent liberalization process in a specific Eastern European country in transition towards market economy, namely, the Republic of Belarus. The analysis of the country trade patterns during the USSR...
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North-South Technology Spillovers : The Relative Impact of Openness and Foreign R&D
Schiff, Maurice; Wang, Yanling - 2021
larger productivity gains from trade liberalization than previously thought …
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Can global value chains effectively serve regional economic development in Asia?
Brunner, Hans-Peter - 2013
Regional economic integration through logistics, information network and connectivity improvement can increase the 'virtual size' of an economy as trade with neighboring countries increases. This leads to substantial benefits from scale, network, coordination and agglomeration economies. As is...
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El efecto de China en el comercio internacional de América Latina
Montenegro, Claudio; Pereira, Mariana; Soloaga, Isidro - In: Estudios de economía 38 (2011) 2, pp. 341-368
Using a gravity model, this article presents an analysis of aggregate trade flows aimed at identifying China’s impact on Latin America’s trade. The results obtained indicate that: i) China´s growth in the last years implied a growing supply of exports to this market from most countries in...
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Business services outsourcing and economic growth : evidence from a dynamic panel data approach
Dettmer, Bianka - 2012
Innovations in information- and telecommunication technology render the proximity requirement between business partners obsolete and make business service outsourcing via cross-border trade more feasible. Although the (service-led) growth prospects have been widely discussed, evidence at the...
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Neighborhood Effects in Economic Growth
Vilarrubia, Josep M. - 2006
One of the most striking features of the world economy is that wealthy countries are clustered together. This paper theoretically and empirically explains a mechanism for this clustering by extending the Acemoglu and Ventura model so that it takes real geography into account. Countries close to...
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Transport, Infrastructure and Growth : Evidence From Chinese Firms
Lu, Will Jianyu - 2018
Transportation infrastructure is a way for governments to achieve development goals by connecting peripheral areas to urban centers. This is particularly important in a country like China where income is highly unequally distributed across space. Yet understanding the gains from transportation...
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An Explanatory Analysis on the Impact of Industrial Cluster Strategy on Industry Growth in Zimbabwe
Mahuni, Kenneth - 2016
their ability to reduce costs, enabling research and development, increased productivity among other advantages. This paper …
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