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Infrastructure provision and Africa's trade and development prospects : potential role and relevance of The WTO Agreement on Government Procurement (GPA)
Niggli, Nicholas C.; Osei-Lah, Kodjo - 2014 - Manuscript date: 30 October, 2014
Two issues stand out in this conversation. The first concerns the unfinished business of the global fight against the scourge of poverty, which impacts one region more than most: Africa. At the same time, a key pre-requisite for economic performance - affordable and efficient public...
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Globalisation and social spending
De Grauwe, Paul; Polan, Magdalena - 2003
We provide evidence indicating that countries with well-developed social security systems do not necessarily face a trade-off between social spending and competitiveness. On average, countries that spend a lot on social needs score well in the competitiveness league. We investigate the...
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Globalization and a welfare program for the marginalized
Broll, Udo; Kemnitz, Alexander; Mukherjee, Vivekananda - 2009
We study the economic relationship between globalization and inequality within a country. In a partial equilibrium it …, relative consumption inequality between employed and the marginalized always rises by intensified globalization. However in … certain situations the relative income inequality may fall. -- Globalization ; inequality ; marginalization ; policy …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10003841950
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Asian trade and global linkages
Brooks, Douglas Howard; Hua, Changchun - 2008
In the run-up to the 2008 global financial crisis, there was frequent discussion of Asia having decoupled from economic shock transmission originating in Europe or North America. Much of the basis for these arguments was related to the rapid expansion of intraregional trade in Asia. This paper...
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South-South economic linkages : an overview
Jha, Shikha; McCawley, Peter - 2011
institutions, and improved economic security and stability. …
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The endogeneity approach of the theory of optimum currency areas : what does it mean for ASEAN + 3?
Löchel, Horst; Baumann, Stefan - 2006
The paper analyzes if and how the experiences of European integration can be used for the progress of East Asia … integration especially of the ASEAN+3 countries1. Of special interest is the relevance of the new endogeneity approach of monetary … integration for East Asia. The question is discussed in theoretical as well as in empirical terms. It can be shown that despite of …
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The KOF Globalisation Index : revisited
Gygli, Savina; Haelg, Florian; Potrafke, Niklas; Sturm, … - 2018
We introduce the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring globalization for every … along the different dimensions of globalization. We also disentangle trade and financial globalization within the economic … dimension of globalization and use time-varying weighting of the variables. The new index is based on 43 instead of 23 variables …
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Trade in value added : concepts, estimation and analysis
Javorsek, Marko; Camacho, Ignacio - 2015
This working paper introduces the concept of Trade in Value Added (TiVA) and presents an initial analysis of TiVA for selected regional ESCAP economies. The paper introduces Global Value Chains (GVCs) and issues for the measurement of trade statistics due to proliferation of GVCs. It further...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010529478
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Non-tariff measures and standards in trade and global value chains
Beghin, John C.; Maertens, Miet; Swinnen, Johan F. M. - 2015 - This version: February 24, 2015
We assess the literature on public and private quality standards and their impact in food markets, international trade, and global supply chains. We focus on their effects on welfare, trade, industrial organization, and labor markets and with special attention to the North-South context. We also...
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Clustering value-added trade : structural and policy dimensions
Escaith, Hubert; Gaudin, Hadrien - 2014 - Manuscript date: 2 June 2014
A second approach focuses on the relationships existing between the variables themselves, using multi-criteria and graph analysis. Natural resources endowments, on the one hand, and services orientation, on the other one, are among the most determinant variables for defining Trade in Value Added...
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