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Local content requirements and their economic effect on shipbuilding : a quantitative assessment
Gourdon, Karin; Guilhoto, Joaquim José Martins - 2019
This study quantifies the significant economic gains that are expected to be revealed through the abolition or relaxation of local content based policies. The work analyses two specific local content policies affecting directly or indirectly the shipbuilding industry in two countries: Brazil’s...
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The new kid in the forest: the impact of China's resource demand on Gabon's tropical timber value chain
Terheggen, Anne - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2010
This dissertation is anchored in the disruptive impact of China’s resource-based economic expansion over the last two … decades. Whilst the country’s economic growth follows traditional patterns of development, the size of China’s population … reversal of commodity exporting countries’ terms of trade are a result of China’s non-marginal impact of consumption. This …
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Digital trade in Europe and Central Asia
Tan, Shawn W. - 2017
The Internet greatly increases firms' potential to produce new goods and service for new markets. The Internet is also having a dramatic impact on services, especially in the retail, trade and finance sectors, by enabling firms to digitize their products and deliver them over long distances....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011667011
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Digital trade in Europe and Central Asia
Tan, Shawn W. - 2017
The Internet greatly increases firms' potential to produce new goods and service for new markets. The Internet is also having a dramatic impact on services, especially in the retail, trade and finance sectors, by enabling firms to digitize their products and deliver them over long distances....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011852981
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Vietnam's WTO Accession and Export-Led Growth- Introduction
Cling, Jean-Pierre; Razafindrakoto, Mireille; Roubaud, … - In: Economie Internationale (2009) 118, pp. 5-12
Vietnam joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in 2007 and became its 150th member. This accession is something of an endorsement of a long process of trade reform and international integration, which started more than two decades before in 1986 with the launch of Doi Moi (Renovation)....
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Networks of value added trade
Amador, João; Cabral, Sónia - 2016
GVCs. Moreover, the differences between Germany, the US, China and Russia as major suppliers of value added in GVCs are …
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The Increasing Interdependence between Trade in Goods and Trade in Services. Recent Trends in Global Services Flows
Ghibutiu, Agnes; Oehler-Sincai, Iulia Monica - In: Revista de Economie Mondiala / The Journal of Global … 5 (2013) 4
This paper aims to highlight some of the recent developments in global trade in services. It sets out three main objectives. Firstly, to analyse the increasing interdependence between global trade flows in goods and services against the background of rapid expansion of global production networks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752189
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The Increasing Interdependence between Trade in Goods and Trade in Services. Recent Trends in Global Services Flows
Ghibutiu, Agnes; Oehler-Sincai, Iulia Monica - In: Revista de Economie Mondiala / The Journal of Global … 5 (2013) 4
This paper aims to highlight some of the recent developments in global trade in services. It sets out three main objectives. Firstly, to analyse the increasing interdependence between global trade flows in goods and services against the background of rapid expansion of global production networks...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010752194
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Measuring the Upstreamness of Production and Trade Flows
Antràs, Pol; Chor, Davin; Fally, Thibault; Hillberry, … - C.E.P.R. Discussion Papers - 2012
We propose two distinct approaches to the measurement of industry upstreamness (or average distance from final use) and show that they yield an equivalent measure. Furthermore, we provide two additional interpretations of this measure, one of them related to the concept of forward linkages in...
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CO2 embedded in trade : trends and fossil fuel drivers
Weber, Sylvain; Gerlagh, Reyer; Mathys, Nicole A.; … - 2019
The amount of CO2 embedded in trade has substantially increased over the last decades. We study the trends and some drivers of the carbon content of trade over the period 1995-2009. Our main findings are the following. First, the mix of traded goods tends to have higher emission intensity than...
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