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What is the connection between different forms of globalization, economic growth, and welfare? International trade … particular attention to the role of globalization in the Great Divergence, the tariff-trade-growth debate, and the globalization … evaluate the ongoing and active debate about whether globalization is significantly associated with growth in the past. I pay …
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chains positively impacts their growth; a positive impact which is driven by trade in commodities, knowledge intensive good …Global value chains offer countries unique opportunities to participate in and benefit from international trade by … growth. We use the EORA Multi-Region Input-Output tables to track the evolution of African countries along global value …
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of understanding the connections between trade and labor in both scholarship and practice, and as such seeks to support … influxes as exogenous phenomena, as opposed to effects of law and policy choices made by government actors in trade, investment …
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This paper argues that economic competition and political contestability are two key determinants of the successful development of the Swiss economy in the nineteenth and twentieth century. We describe how Switzerland evolved from a relatively poor country with no natural resources and net...
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Economists generally agree that free trade leads to economic growth. This proposition is supported both by theoretical … wrong, if free trade leads to superior growth, governments would have more resources to redistribute to the poor. It is … regarding the effects of trade liberalization on economic growth, suggesting that the standard policy prescriptions of the …
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In the wake of the U.S.-Canada Free Trade Agreement, both the U.S. and Canada experienced a sustained increase in job …, we formulate a model of innovation by both domestic and foreign firms. In the model, trade liberalization quickens the … trade liberalization are an order of magnitude larger than the gains in a standard static model …
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We construct a new database which covers production and trade in 136 primary commodities and 24 manufacturing and … service sectors for 145 countries. Using this new more granular data, we estimate spillover effects from plausible trade … accounting for granular commodity production and trade linkages leads to underestimation of the output losses associated with …
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(agents, policies, etc.) and with dissimilar effects on long-run economic growth; 3) the absence of an “Early Globalization …
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significance of Indigenous agency in trade. …
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The aim of this paper is to investigate the process of politicization of the highest levels of the global commercial connectivity network, during its formative decades. The paper highlights the role played by the differences among the national approaches, along with some of the key mechanisms...
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