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larger productivity gains from trade liberalization than previously thought. -- Technology diffusion ; R&D ; openness ; North-South …
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We consider two channels via which foreign inputs into industrial production may lead to productivity effects. The … the productivity growth of a particular industry. We show by which institutional mechanism firms are able to share …
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This paper examines the impact on TFP in Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) and in other developing countries (DEV) of trade-related foreign R&D (NRD), education and governance. The measures of NRD are constructed based on industry-specific R&D in the North, North-South trade patterns, and...
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the low labor-productivity growth in the African nations-without reinventing the wheel by estimating the impact of … preferential access trade agreement--the ricochet effect of the trade-induced productivity benefits via intermediates in the … Analysis Project (GTAP) with 27 sectors and 51 regions. The paper shows: (i) role of trade-mediated productivity benefits for …
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We examine the extent to which developing countries that do little, if any, research and development themselves benefit … knowledge” from its cumulative R&D activities, a developing country can boost its productivity by importing a larger variety of …
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This paper traces the rise of export-led growth as a development paradigm and argues that it is exhausted owing to changed conditions in emerging market (EM) and developed economies. The global economy needs a recalibration that facilitates a new paradigm of domestic demand-led growth....
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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...
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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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The current political turmoil in the Arab world has contributed to renewed interest in the Barcelona Process. This paper explores whether deeper integration in the form of trade facilitation - i.e. improved and simplified trade procedures - could be an important part of a reform agenda. Adopting...
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