, with trade as a dominating undertaking, a sustenance-based agricultur,e and very limited production facilities, is a very … country development is still lagging behind. In this respect, the lack of a proper marketing and business approach is present … neglect marketing by being mainly sales-oriented; they do produce what they think is good for the costumers and then use lots …

Using detailed global trade and novel Multi-Region Input-Output (MRIO) data, this paper examines the East African … Community's (EAC) global and regional integration through trade, global, and regional value chains (GVCs and RVCs). With … global and regional trade and production networks at the aggregate, bilateral, sectoral, and bilateral-sectoral levels. The …

Germany and Turkey, the unemployment rates in Germany and Turkey, and the trade variable, that captures intensity of bilateral … economic cooperation, is found. By including the trade variable in the empirical migration function we investigate whether … trade and migration are complements or substitutes: a question on which the theoretical literature does not provide a …

This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been … provision of schooling are typically lower in an open than in a closed economy. Moreover, we find that, under openness to trade …, development is faster in a democratic system. We also endogenize the trade regime and demonstrate that, in political equilibrium …

This paper argues that openness to goods trade in combination with an unequal distribution of political power has been … provision of schooling are typically lower in an open than in a closed economy. Moreover, we find that, under openness to trade …, development is faster in a democratic system. We also endogenize the trade regime and demonstrate that, in political equilibrium …

regional inequality. Geography, mobility and trade openness are also highly important. …

The paper presents the dynamics of trade diversity with respect to stages of development in the European context. The … (Imbs and Wacziarg, 2003), EU27 countries are characterized by high degree of trade diversity (on average, EU27 countries … of them registered a reconcentration of trade structures. Obtained estimation results confirm positive relationship …

This paper contributes to trade diversification literature by comparing changes in relative (i.e. assessed in … highly disaggregated trade statistics (4963 product lines) for 163 countries (1988-2010) and find that, despite differences …