countries at relatively small values and that the rate of preference utilisation of these imports are low and in many cases zero … using monthly data on EU imports from African LDCs at the lowest level of (publicly) available aggregation thereby coming … close to transaction level data. It identifies the average values of preference eligible imports, utilising and not …

The paper investigates how Preferential Trade Agreements (PTAs) affect the range of goods exported by a nation. We use … the Melitz model and highly dis-aggregated data on Euro-Mediterranean trade to measure the effect of preferential trade … liberalization on the range of traded products. By focusing on the zeros in the trade matrix, the paper finds evidence that at the …

that both openness to trade and appreciated real exchange rates are detrimental to growth. … development to both reduce poverty and improve income inequality. Since long-term economic development is a complex phenomenon … claimed, but also the terms of trade both have strong impacts on per capita income. Once institutions are controlled for …

term. We find that the quality of institutions and openness to trade both have positive and statistically significant … to have the strongest impact, followed by openness to trade measures. In comparison, geography measures have rather small …A number of recent papers study the impact of institutions, trade and geography known as “deep determinants” of …

models, controlling for the “deep determinants” of development: Institutions, geography and trade. Our results indicate that …This paper investigates the consequences of religion for economic development. In particular, we examine whether … religion plays an important role in economic development, but mostly in a non-linear manner. Countries with moderate religious …

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to …. The instruments used include export taxes, price controls, production quotas, and domestic producer and consumer taxes … (equivalent to trade taxes if no domestic production is possible). We review the literature, and argue that the policy equilibrium …

The global Aid for Trade/AfT Initiative was inspired by the Doha Round of WTO negotiations. It involved specific aid … any international development initiative, the limitations to the AfT Initiative are clear. Overall funding remains modest …-hierarchical institutional environment, such as the international development community. This form of cooperation cannot be expected to overcome …

The question of the terms of trade has not yet been studied by the new empirical literature on the export … increase in the export sophistication is terms of trade worsening or improving for the developing and emerging economies … deterioration of their terms of trade …

to overcome these inefficiencies and obtain mutual gains. -- natural resources ; trade ; export tax ; tariff escalation …Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to …. The instruments used include export taxes, price controls, production quotas, and domestic producer and consumer taxes …

Natural resources account for 20% of world trade, and dominate the exports of many countries. Policy is used to …. The instruments used include export taxes, price controls, production quotas, and domestic producer and consumer taxes … (equivalent to trade taxes if no domestic production is possible). We review the literature, and argue that the policy equilibrium …