This paper quantifies how much of exports from eight East Asian economies were consumed by consumers in China, US … firm-level database is utilised to get an accurate measure for such indirect exports. The main findings are: (i) US … Asia that were consumed by the US, Japan, other OECD countries, and China did not change drastically from 2000 to 2006 …

from developing countries to the United States boost demand for U.S. non-tradable goods. This induces a reallocation of U.S …

little evidence of enhanced development finance or any concomitant improvement in economic development. We critically examine … symbiotic relationships between finance and economic development, we propose an institutional-centric approach that forms a … basis for understanding the transformation required for financial development. For development to occur, financial flows …

conditions for sustained economic growth and development by deepening democracy, enhancing the stability of political regimes and …

Many of the emerging market economies in Europe are presently running current account deficits which are quite high … Union (EU) members of the old Europe (Greece, Portugal, and Spain), many of the EU’s new member states (largely the former … transition economies which have joined since 2004), most of those non-EU members in south-east Europe, and a number of the CIS …