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Causality and Efficiency in the Coffee Futures Market
Kebede, Yohannes - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 1992
Tests for causality and rationality in the coffee futures market were carried out using data from the New York Market. Tests of causality indicated that futures prices strongly influence variations in spot price eight weeks or more to maturity. However, beginning seven weeks to maturity there...
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Brazil’s Place in the Global Economy
Porzecanski, Arturo C. - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2014
Brazil is a country with long-standing ambitions for a major role in the world economy and in global governance, but its footprint in various measures of both remains relatively modest. On current trends, the gap between ambition and achievement will likely remain large, so we provide a critique...
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Financial stabilization systems, economic growth of developing countries and EU’s STABEX
Aiello, Francesco - Volkswirtschaftliche Fakultät, … - 2002
Understanding the impact of instability of export receipts on the economic growth of developing countries has been an important area of research in development economics for a long time. A substantial body of literature has documented a wide range of empirical regularities according to which...
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Sri Lanka's Trade Policies: Back to Protectionism
Pursell, Garry; Ahsan, F.M. Ziaul - Crawford School of Public Policy, Australian National … - 2011
In 1977 Sri Lanka was the first of the South Asian countries to decisively move away from the protectionist import-substitution trade policies that for many years had damaged their economic efficiency and hobbled their economic growth. Albeit with back-tracking episodes, Sri Lanka's liberalising...
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Cape Verde and Mozambique as Development Successes in West and Southern Africa
Braga de Macedo, Jorge A.; Pereira, Luis Brites - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
This paper applies an interpretation of how globalization and governance (G&G) interact with convergence given Cape … diversification (an indicator of globalization) and income convergence (an indicator of governance) in the sub-regions of West and … that trade openness drives convergence and export diversification in Western Africa (which is becoming more diversified …
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The Determinants of Food Aid Provisions to Africa and the Developing World
Nunn, Nathan; Qian, Nancy - National Bureau of Economic Research (NBER) - 2010
We examine the supply-side and demand-side determinants of global bilateral food aid shipments between 1971 and 2008. First, we find that domestic food production in developing countries is negatively correlated with subsequent food aid receipts, suggesting that food aid receipt is partly driven...
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El papel estratégico de los BRICS en la era del capitalismo cognitivo y financiero
Sarmiento, Álvaro Zerda - UN - RCE - CID - 2012
En este documento se analiza el surgimiento y papel que el conjunto de países agrupados en la sigla BRICS (Brasil, Rusia, India, China y Sudáfrica) puedan desempeñar en la economía mundial, dentro del marco de la crisis internacional por la que atraviesa el capitalismo. También se...
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El impacto de los cambios en el Sistema Generalizado de Preferencias (SGP) de la Unión Europea (UE) en países asiáticos y latinoamericanos.
Cuyvers, Ludo; Soeng, Reth - In: REVISTA CUADERNOS DE ECONOMÍA (2012)
En este artículo se estudian el impacto de los cambios en el Sistema Generalizado de Preferencias (SGP) de la Unión Europea (UE) sobre sus propias importaciones, procedentes de los países beneficiarios del SGP de la ASEAN y China, y de América Latina, y el uso de los beneficios del SGP por...
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How Did China Take Off?
Huang, Yasheng - In: Journal of Economic Perspectives 26 (2012) 4, pp. 147-70
There are two prevailing perspectives on how China took off. One emphasizes the role of globalization—foreign trade and investments and special economic zones; the other emphasizes the role of internal reforms, especially rural reforms. Detailed documentary and quantitative evidence...
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Assessing the impact of the special support measures for least developed countries: an analytical frame work and some preliminary results
GUILLAUMONT, Patrick - Fondation pour les études et recherches sur le … - 2011
How far is it a benefit to be classified as a LDC? To address this issue several approaches are conceivable.A first …
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