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. But South-South trade is partly picking up the slack. Middle-income countries are driving export diversification of low …-income countries. Developing countries may be moving toward a new version of export-led growth. …
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export activities. Trade in services, particularly business services, has become an element of export diversification for …Services play a broad and strategic role in the economy. Trade in services has been expanding rapidly because … communication services are among the most successful services exports. This note focuses on the determinants of trade in services …
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Over the recent year, humanity has faced natural disasters of unprecedented magnitude and impact. However, governments and international aid organizations do not systematically plan for preventing and mitigating the effects of natural disasters, and macroeconomic scenarios seldom take into...
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This paper discusses the impact of increasing standards in food production and trade on the export opportunities of low …, diminishing their export opportunities and leading to an unequal distribution of the gains from trade, resulting in …-income countries and on development in these countries. The increase in food standards is often seen as a threat to poor countries …
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Of the world’s 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars per person per day and another 1.7 billion lived on between $1.25 and $2.50 PPP dollars (Chen and Ravallion, 2012). The scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the...
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Of the world's 6.7 billion people (as of 2008), 1.3 billion lived on less than $1.25 Purchasing Power Parity dollars per person per day and another 1.7 billion lived on between $1.25 and $2.50 PPP dollars (Chen and Ravallion, 2012). The scourge of absolute economic misery among billions of the...
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This article reviews key recent literature on the effects of trade liberalization on poverty in developing countries … that liberalization has very heterogeneous effects on poor households, depending, inter alia, on what trade policies are … liberalized and how the household earns its living. Working in the export sector predicts gains, and working in the import …
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integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade … practitioners and researchers in both areas. She concludes that while at least some trade preferences actually have been less of a … failure than their reputation suggests, trade facilitation is a far more promising policy option for the future. …
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integration between the European Union and developing countries by removing barriers to trade: trade preferences and trade … practitioners and researchers in both areas. She concludes that while at least some trade preferences actually have been less of a … failure than their reputation suggests, trade facilitation is a far more promising policy option for the future. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010954776
In this chapter, we discuss whether or not governance is an important source of variation in development experiences … literature on the political economy of development. Third, improving governance necessitates understanding the nature of the …
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