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total production, the purchase and sales price, the incomes obtained from the sale and the trade balance on the main …
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Trade and innovation cause structural change. Productive factors must flow from declining to growing industries. Banks … advantage and trade patterns. The analysis points to the importance of insolvency laws, minimum capital standards, and cost of … bank equity to determine credit reallocation, sectoral expansion and trade patterns. …
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This paper analyzes the changes that occurred in Moldova's trade of agricultural and food products since the … implementation of the Deep and Comprehensive Free Trade Agreement (DCFTA) with European Union. The research will include the analysis … of Moldova's foreign trade activity from the perspective of agricultural and food products, the changes that occurred in …
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Despite a long-standing controversy about aid-effectiveness in general and the impact of aid-dependency on governance in particular, little is known on the effect of donors policies on civic agency for democratization in aid dependent autocratic regimes. In this study it is argued that the...
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unprecedented scale and scope. The era of ?globalisation? has been characterised by falling barriers to trade and increasing capital … flows, both of speculative and investment nature. Huge trade deficits and surpluses have emerged, which have raised a … renewed interest in international trade issues as well as concern within the scientific community, as is witnessed in the …
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We identify indirect and direct colonial rule as causal factors in shaping support for democracy by exploiting a within-country natural experiment in Namibia. Throughout the colonial era, northern Namibia was indirectly ruled through a system of appointed indigenous traditional elites whereas...
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This paper studies the role of financial market imperfections in the way countries' exports react to a currency depreciation. Using quarterly data for 27 developed and developing countries over the period 1990-2005, we show that the impact of a depreciation will be less positive - or even...
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Since early 2008 interim trade agreements between the EU and six regions of ACP countries (respectively sub … disaggregated data for trade and tariffs (HS six digit level) and follows a simple analytical model by Milner et al. (2006) to … quantify the welfare effects of trade liberalization. We extend the literature in two principal ways: First, we estimate …
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This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the link between bilateral and multilateral foreign aid and …-recipient trade relationship. This paper also makes comparisons among donors and finds that aid has a positive and significant effect …
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This paper uses the gravity model of trade to investigate the link between foreign aid and exports in recipient …
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