This article examines trade credit practices of rural small business firms. The results show that these firms borrow … money and then re‐lend it to others in the form of trade credit. There is a strong direct relationship between various forms … of debt held by these firms and their level of accounts receivable (e.g., trade credit extended to customers). The actual …

were identified which could be appropriately organized into the following sections: agricultural trade and rural labor …

Countries have differences in competition policies, which are cause for friction in international trade and investment … cooperative competition policy. The model suggests that countries which are economically advanced, active in trade, and already … involved in trade regimes are most likely to cooperate in competition policy.  …

For centuries, Turkey has been the nexus of trade and enterprise in Southeastern Europe. Located between the continents … entrepreneurial spirit, the antiquated trade laws in Turkey hindered the sprawling nation’s ability to trade with others. In the late …, foreign investments, government apparatuses, and domestic markets and trade policy. Moreover, this paper identifies strategies …

Purpose – The objective of this paper is to analyse the evolution of international steam coal trade, the nature of coal … trade contracts and the pricing mechanism in the two main coal trading regions – the Atlantic and the Asia‐Pacific, from the … development of the international crude oil market in terms of trade and pricing, as identified in Roeber. Findings – The four …

Free trade reform promotes and consolidates businesses’ orientation to international markets. Using a sample of twenty … Latin American countries, this study finds support for the hypothesis that higher revealed trade openness implies faster … economic growth. However, at low output growth levels, increased revealed trade openness does not translate to faster output …

‐sensitizing trade strategies aimed at export‐led poverty reduction, where capitalizing on market‐oriented structures and optimizing … existing resources become the drivers for making trade work efficiently and equitably. Design/methodology/approach – The paper … that the existing gender gap in trade strategy formulation indirectly hinders trade performance and that pro‐poor trade …

of negotiations, China finally joined the World Trade Organization (WTO) in December 2001. Because of trade and … marketing implications of specific trade‐related policy issues within the WTO framework for China. Eleven specific WTO policy …

Purpose – World Trade Organization (WTO) accession marked a new beginning for China's economic, legal and institutional … experience, synthesize and update studies on China's pattern of trade and structural transformation, and provide both positive … latest policy changes after China's WTO accession, and literatures on China's trade and economic development issues in order …