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This study investigates the economies of the Sub-Saharan States in Africa, which account for only 2 % of the world GDP … region. Even though several thousand SME have started activities in Sub-Saharan Africa, these are relatively few in the … global context of German exports and compared to the activity of other European countries in Sub-Saharan Africa. Around 13 …
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natural disasters (Chapter 3); and how international integration of countries shapes economic growth and helps to contain the … integration, and economic growth (Chapter 5). …
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important variables like being landlocked, language, inflation, and so forth. We found recent GDP growth rate to be non …
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, may be seriously affected. And it would perhaps not be their economic growth that would suffer the most, but the climate … the transition countries' short-term growth prospects. Domestic demand is robust, though the growth of industrial … production somewhat decelerated during the first months of the year. If there is a noticeable growth slowdown, as in Poland …
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exports have sustained growth and the performance of the labour market has somewhat improved. With exports to GDP at around 50 … unemployment rate above 20%, which has tended to be even higher for decades now, there is clearly untapped potential for growth and … development. Export-led growth is what the long-term macroeconomic framework has been designed for. There is a fixed exchange rate …
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This research report investigates the trade and growth benefits of the CEFTA agreement for its members. Although the … economic growth. However, there is trade heterogeneity in terms of the extent to which individual countries use CEFTA value …
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This paper analyses some of the main factors behind the recent rapid growth in the Commonwealth of Independent States … (CIS) and the prospects for its continuation. Two approaches are used. The first approach uses growth accounting exercises … to estimate the total factor productivity (TFP) growth of all transition economies and compare them with other fast …
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This paper provides the quantitative estimate of the potential growth bonus for CIS countries, and in particular EU … growth performance and reforms, as well as between reforms and European integration. The paper derives the range of possible … values of growth bonus from the deepened neighbourhood cooperation between 1 and 3.8 with the median at 1.8 percentage points …
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This dissertation consists of four essays in the economics of digital transformation and specifically considers the link between geography and digitalization in the know-ledge economy.
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This note gives a comprehensive overview of the currently available international databases on trade in services. Notwithstanding problems in data collection arising from the very wide definition of trade in services (i.e. the four GATS modes in contrast to what is traditionally considered as...
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