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Succeeding with Trade Reforms - The Role of Aid for Trade
Hallaert, Jean-Jacques; Cavazos-Cepeda, Ricardo H.; … - 2014
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014157613
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Integrated Yet Marginalized : Implications of Globalization for African Development
Ndikumana, Leonce - 2015
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013017682
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Trade Costs, Global Value Chains and Economic Development
Zi, Yuan - 2016
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012978461
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Development in Africa
Pelizzo, Riccardo; Kinyondo, Abel; Nwokora, Zim - 2018
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...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011794986
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From Adam Smith to Amartya Sen : Global Market as a Possible Instrument to Promote Socio-Economic Development
Bucciarelli, Edgardo - 2011
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013123250
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The rise and fall of export-led growth
Palley, Thomas I. - 2011
a new paradigm of domestic demand-led growth. Globalization has so diversified global economic activity that no country …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009269460
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Economic geography and economic development in Sub-Saharan Africa
Bosker, Maarten; Garretsen, Harry - 2008
investing in intra- SSA infrastructure or through increased SSA integration) will have substantial positive effects on its …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003803503
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Trade, Infrastructure, and Development
Olarreaga, Marcelo - 2017
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....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012966413
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Do International Trade Institutions Contribute to Economic Growth and Development?
Paul, Joel R. - 2012
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 …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014074487
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Do as I Say (Not as I Did) : Putative Intellectual Property Lessons for Emerging Economies from the Not so Long Past of the Developed Nations
Gibbons, Llewellyn Joseph - 2010
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