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We empirically analyse the impact of trade on income levels in the sub-Saharan African countries. The results indicate …
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Why have 94% of LDCs not escaped poverty during the last four decades? This paper analyses the motivation behind the UN decision to establish the LDC category in 1971. The reviewed literature highlights the conflicting interests of the actors involved. It provides a historical account of the...
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While most countries have harmonized intellectual property rights (IPR) legislation, the dispute about the optimal level of IPR-enforcement remains. This paper develops an endogenous growth framework with two open economies satisfying the classical North-South assumptions to study (a)...
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This paper studies the spread of the Black Death as a proxy for the ow of medieval trade between 1346 and 1351. The … variables of medieval trade ows based on an empirical trade model. These results shed new light on many qualitative debates on … the importance and causes of medieval trade. …
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importer at 5.4% of world imports in 2006/07. China's overall trade with Latin America has expanded substantially during the …, Latin American governments need to pursue long-run strategic public policies. They need to optimize trade results and …
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This paper explores the determinants of individual level support for income redistribution by the government. It argues that there are two sources of preference formation when it comes to redistribution. People are either in favor of income redistribution because they are disadvantaged, or they...
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The paper uses a gravity model to examine the role of corruption in the direction of trade in a data set comprising … membership of the RTAs does not always increase bilateral trade whereas reducing a country's corruption does tend to increase … trade flows. The results suggest that EU membership, with the associated improvement in the perceived level of corruption …
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The paper empirically investigates the inter-linkage between FDI inflow and international trade in service sector in … more than 60 percent of output and almost 35 percent of trade in global economy. The sector also accounted for 63 percent … theoretically established causal relationship between FDI inflow and international trade in services towards sustainable and service …
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across markets, by exploiting the quasi experimental design of the nearly total collapse of domestic trade by rail in January … a 11% to 18% reduction in price dispersion across markets. Geographical reach of trade varies by crop, most likely …
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presence of international trade and find evidence that both regulation and trade have a significant positive influence on …
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