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This study aimed at identifying key factors affecting SME participation in direct export and international production networks (IPNs), both globally and in Asia and the Pacific. A global dataset of firm-level data from developing countries was analyzed to identify the main obstacles to...
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procedures mainly benefit small firms, the simplification of documents and automation tend to favor large firms' trade. This is … coherent with the idea that while some elements of the TFA simply reduce the fixed cost of exporting (favoring small firms in … particular), other chapters in the TFA reduce the scope for corruption at borders, making large firms less reluctant to serve …
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procedures mainly benefit small firms, the simplification of documents and automation tend to favor large firms' trade. This is … coherent with the idea that while some elements of the TFA simply reduce the fixed cost of exporting (favoring small firms in … particular), other chapters in the TFA reduce the scope for corruption at borders, making large firms less reluctant to serve …
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Trade facilitation refers to all measures that can be taken to facilitate cross-border trade flows, but there is no standard formal definition of trade facilitation. This paper examines whether export-oriented MSMEs have access to trade facilitation and how helpful trade facilitation is in...
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represented in international trade – as direct exporters or importers – than larger firms. Drawing on cross-country data from the … for different trade facilitation areas, the analysis shows that firms of all sizes across both developed and developing … aggregate, smaller firms benefit more from improvements in the overall trade facilitation environment relative to large firms …
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