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This paper examines the relationship between trade liberalisation and migration in the case of Mexico. The increasing … bilateral trade between Mexico and the United States after signing the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) was supposed …: are trade and migration substitutes like the policy-makers had assumed or are they complements? Using monthly data from …
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Global trade growth over the past few years has appeared extraordinarily weak, even in relation to weak global GDP … growth. This paper shows that the apparent breakdown in the relationship between global trade and global GDP growth is … particularly trade intensive region – has had a substantial negative effect on intra-euro area trade flows, which are commonly …
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As its workforce ages and major economies shift towards producing higher value-added goods and services, New Zealand will face increasing challenges to remain globally competitive and maintain high living standards. Future growth will need to come increasingly from productivity gains, and...
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Policy efforts to revitalise entrepreneurship and investment in Spain are key to generating growth and new jobs. The government has a substantial reform program to make it easier to do business in Spain, which should in some cases be deepened. Boosting economic growth requires a new generation...
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Portugal has notably increased its international openness over recent decades, with exports’ share of GDP rising by 20 percentage points since 1993. This analysis couples microdata with panel regression techniques to investigate the drivers of Portuguese export growth over the 1995-2016...
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contracts in the oil and gas sector, and the long-standing US Jones Act obliging intra-US seaborne trade to be conducted on US … built and US flagged vessels. The paper’s static simulation exploits OECD’s latest Trade-in-Value-Added (TiVA) data – a rich … industry, enabling an assessment of the effect of the two selected policies on inter-industry trade. The simulation results …
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This report, part of the “Cities” collection, highlights the contribution of border towns to the process of regional integration in West Africa. For 18 countries, six indicators are used to identify the specificities of border towns at the local, national and international levels:...
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This report, part of the “Cities” collection, provides an analysis of the demographic and morphological changes in West African border cities since the mid-20th century. Using the Africapolis harmonised database makes it possible to show that since 1950 border cities have experienced higher...
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This report, part of the “Cities” collection, analyses the spatial distribution of formal enter¬prises and health infrastructure in West Africa. The analysis shows that sectors crucial for regional integration are concentrated in economic capitals rather than in border areas. These results...
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several years, attention has grown for the trade costs of regulatory divergence. Diverging regulation may increase the costs … to trade goods and services across borders. While regulatory divergence is often the result of diverging national public … approaches that can help them identify and evaluate the trade impacts of their regulatory action. The paper reviews the …
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