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Intro -- Contents -- I. INTRODUCTION: COMPARATIVE ADVANTAGE -- II. GROWING INTEREST IN THE REGION -- III. COPING WITH THE OBSTACLES TO THE REGION'S DEVELOPMENT -- IV. A FEW IDEAS FOR THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE REGION -- V. CONCLUSIONS AND RECOMMENDATIONS -- References.
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The Gulf of Guinea''s tremendous potential is creating investment opportunities for the region. Some of its resources, such as oil, minerals, and forests, continue to attract significant investments whereas others, like natural gas, could be exploited to their full potential if necessary...
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This article explores the impact of globalization on the capacity of states in West Africa to exacerbate and manage … escalating insecurity in the maritime domain of West Africa, with particular focus on the Gulf of Guinea. It articulates the … a discussion of the lessons for West Africa, the United States and the world community …
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We propose a new approach to model costly international trade, which includes the standard approach, the icebergʺ transport cost, as a special case. The key idea is to make the technologies of supplying the good depend on the destination of the good. To demonstrate our approach, we extend the...
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"We use a new measure of total trade costs at the bilateral country level to examine the change in international trade integration between 1870 and 1913. Trade costs are lowest amongst the most developed countries and highest in the peripheral and poor countries. On average, our measure declined...
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