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This article investigates empirically the effect of aid for trade policies and regulations on the volatility of tariffs … for trade policies and regulations influences negatively and significantly tariff policy volatility in recipient countries … the reducing effect of aid for trade policies and regulations on tariff policy volatility. These results, therefore …
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Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) into Africa has surged in recent years. At the same time, international trade has …
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While popular opinion often pictures FDI flowing in search of lowest-wage, lowest-skilled activities in emerging markets, actual FDI to such countries increasingly addresses medium to high-skilled manufacturing sectors. Such FDI might be called “Quality FDI” that contributes to the creation...
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This study investigates how trade openness affects economic growth in developing countries, with a focus on sub … long-run equilibrium relations. The empirical evidence indicates that a trade threshold exists below which greater trade … openness has beneficial effects on economic growth and above which the trade effect on growth declines. The evidence also …
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This paper investigates the impact of multilateral trade liberalization on resource revenue, using an unbalanced panel … two-step system Generalized Methods of Moments (GMM) estimator, the empirical analysis suggests that multilateral trade … over the full sample hides a positive effect of multilateral trade liberalization on resource revenue in poorest countries …
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This paper analyzes the demand for UK educational services by international students through investigating the demand for student visas to the UK from 89 developing countries covering the period 2001 to 2008. The substantive findings of this research are that bilateral exchange rates matter more...
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variables of inter-regional trade, human resource development, and corruption were investigated in six lower ….010%, intra-regional trade had an impact of 0.014%, and corruption control had 0.260%. Statistically, all variables have a … control, and intra-trade. A unidirectional was found for economic growth between the labor force and human development. At the …
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consolidating trade competitiveness over time, as skill accumulation becomes more widespread across countries and loses significance … technology. This research is timely with deadlocked multilateral trade negotiations and looming trade wars. It attempts to … contribute to an evidence-based guide to trade policy. …
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This paper examines the current accounts of 16 developed and developing countries over the period 1970 to 2018. We test whether these nations satisfy their intertemporal solvency condition for external imbalances. The solvency condition in the strong form entails: (1) a cointegration, or a long...
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This firm-level study investigates the importance of innovation as a determinant of firm productivity and how firm productivity could impact firm export survival. This is the first integration of the innovation approach, productivity approach, and firm survival approach to explore their linkages...
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