very large tourism sector, the sector of high-end business services in Thailand remains small. As IT and information, and … services would benefit Thailand in its post-COVID-19 participation of global value chains, enhancing the competitiveness of its … manufacturers. This paper analyses how Thailand can seize the opportunity of growing international trade in services. It points out …

the export structure of countries, and finds a positive correlation between innovation activity and export specialisation …This paper examines changes in the steel-related export structure of the ten largest steelmaking economies between 2004 …) are developed for a number of low, medium and high value-added steel products, indicating that export specialisation …

Portuguese export growth over the 1995-2016 period. The results highlight that there was no one single factor behind the export … explained by other factors. These include increases in the quality of export products and weak domestic demand that prompted … the Portuguese financial sector and its further development is beneficial for export growth. …

. Its remarkable economic performance over the past 15 years has not been sufficiently backed by gains in export market …, underdeveloped human capital and insufficient investment in innovation, R&D and knowledge-based capital. Progress along these … adjustment process towards a more export-oriented economy operating on a level playing field needs to be flanked by dedicated …

This study explores the impact of export shocks on firms and re-aggregates results to derive distributional effects on … relationships generate sectoral export shocks, which are simulated with the OECD METRO model of trade and subsequently fed into … knowledge-intensive services and are more intensive in tradable services. The results suggest limited impacts of export shocks …

This paper investigates the effect of export entry on productivity, employment and wages of Latvian and Estonian firms … that are originally more productive and have better performances are more likely to enter export, Latvian and Estonian … firms also realise more than 23% and 14% higher labour productivity level as the result of export entry. Export entry also …

countries is particularly productivity enhancing. We also find that GVC integration spurs greater domestic innovation activity. …

productivity through diversification, upgrading technology and innovation, and increasing employment and entrepreneurship. Thailand … structural reform and capital investment have held back productivity growth and improvements in well-being, and Thailand has lost …. Moving forward, Thailand will need to boost productive capacity in the face of intensified competition with regional peers …

Portugal’s export performance over the past decade has been impressive, helping to reduce external imbalances. This … partly owed to a sequence of structural reforms that benefited the productivity of the export sector and led to an increase … competition-enhancing reforms to the port sector. To further differentiate and improve Portuguese export products, skills in the …