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to diversify export portfolios through exporting to Asia. Each African nation has a distinct main trade partner in Asia …, in contrast to the common view that China has become the dominant trade partner of most African nations. Using a panel … with exports to the rest of the world, suggesting that in contrast to trade diversion, trade with Asia complements exports …
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Prepared as an introductory chapter to a forthcoming book on the distribution sector in Japan, this essay introduces the basic structure of the industry. We note the way competition drives consumers, sellers, and manufacturers to select distributional arrangements that minimize total costs, and...
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transmission channels on innovation adoption is especially important for cooperation, leaving trade and competition as apparently …
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In this paper we estimate a sectoral gravity model for trade within a heterogeneous trade bloc, the enlarged EU … economies and skill-intensities in the presence of transport costs. The results offer support for the call to incorporate trade …
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The study aimed to empirically analyse GCC's trade patterns based on the gravity model. Gravity model is derived from … physics and is used to explain the bilateral flow of trade determined by GDP per capita, population, and distance. It is … assumed that trade flow between the two countries is positively related to their economic size and population. The gravity …
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The study aimed to empirically analyse GCC’s trade patterns based on the gravity model. Gravity model is derived from … physics and is used to explain the bilateral flow of trade determined by GDP per capita, population, and distance. It is … assumed that trade flow between the two countries is positively related to their economic size and population. The gravity …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014233140
This study investigates the economic impacts of accession to the ASEAN Free Trade Area (AFTA) by the new member … countries of Cambodia, the Lao PDR, Myanmar, and Vietnam. The trade policies of these countries are examined, and a series of …-specific policy challenges associated with trade liberalization-- such as declining tariff revenues in Cambodia, and the negative …
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This 2005 Human Development Report takes stock of human development, including progress towards the MDGs. Looking beyond statistics; it highlights the human costs of missed targets and broken promises. Extreme inequality between countries and within countries is identified as one of the main...
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This paper contributes to the empirical literature by investigating trade globalization and financial globalization as … used. The paper has two results. The first result is that both trade globalization and financial globalization deepen the …
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This paper reviews empirical and theoretical work concerning the relationship between innovative activities of firms and the dynamics of industries. Stylized facts on industry evolution and the analysis of industrial dynamics in general are a first building block. This discussion just reflects a...
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