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How Outsourcing Affects Bilateral Political Relations

Polachek, Solomon W. - Institute for the Study of Labor (IZA) - 2004

One issue the literature neglects is how outsourcing stimulates trade (imports, exports and foreign direct investment), thereby affecting political relations. However, at least as far back as 1750, economic philosophers such as Baron de Montesquieu in his L’Esprit des Lois, argued, “peace is...

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Taking Stock of Measures Restricting the Export of Raw Materials: Analysis of OECD Inventory Data

Fliess, Barbara; Mård, Tarja - Trade and Agriculture Directorate, Organisation de … - 2012

Governments appear increasingly inclined to resort to border and domestic measures that restrict the export of raw materials. For industrial raw materials, the OECD is constructing an Inventory of measures that have been applied since 2009. The underlying survey covers some 100 countries, some...

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Chapter 15. A Global Approach to Energy andtheEnvironment : The G-Cubed Model

McKibbin, Warwick J.; Wilcoxen, Peter J. - In: Handbook of computable general equilibrium modeling : …, (pp. 995-1068). 2013

G-Cubed is a multi-country, multi-sector, intertemporal general equilibrium model that has been used to study a variety of policies in the areas of environmental regulation, tax reform, monetary and fiscal policy, and international trade. It is designed to bridge the gaps between three areas of...

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Furniture Industry Assessment: Trade Policy and Market Opportunities

Lord, Montague - 1999

protection and trade indicators. Furniture manufacturing remains one of the most highly protected industries in Egypt. Although … the fourth highest of all manufacturing categories. The effective rate of protection (ERP) for the wood furniture industry …

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Japanese auto manufacturers in the Australian market and the government industry assistance spending

Bayari, Celal - 2008

This paper discusses Japanese motor vehicle manufacturing investment and state intervention measures in the Australian … manufacturing firms that form a part of the global supply chain. Toyota Motor Corporation, Mitsubishi Motor Corporation, General …

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Furniture Industry Assessment: Trade Policy and Market Opportunities

Lord, Montague J. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1999

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THE DETERMINANTS OF THE VIETNAMESE ECONOMICS COMPETITIVENESS, A LESSON FOR DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

NGUYEN, Van Ha; GALIEGUE, Xavier - Development and Policies Research Center (Depocen) - 2011

Vietnam has been very successful for the last two decades, since the adoption of “Doi moi” in 1986. Over the last two decades, an economic growth rate in Vietnam has been one of the highest worldwide (with GDP growing by respectively 8% per year). The increase of the Vietnamese share of...

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Industrial Production in the United States : Some Statistics

McGee, Robert W. - 2017

Media pundits and some politicians would have us believe that industrial production has been declining in the United States. Some would even say that “we don't make things anymore.” However, the statistics show a different picture. This paper examines the trade statistics for the United...

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The Impact of the First Wave of the COVID-19 Pandemic on Trade between Canada and the United States

Cardoso, Miguel; Malloy, Brandon - 2021

the relatively more labour-intensive manufacturing industry was most negatively affected by the pandemic, while the … agriculture industry suffered the least disruption to trade flows. Collectively our results suggest that while trade was most …

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A Strategic Framework of Liberalising Trade in Services for Pakistan

Gulzar, Ahmed - In: The Pakistan Development Review 50 (2011) 4, pp. 733-770

For a long time, services were considered non-tradable in the literature of international economics. However, the … constraints and limited options, and regulatory changes have greatly expanded the range and scope of trade in services especially … in the context of increasing share of knowledge intensive products at the world market. Services now account for a …

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