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In the last two decades, the world economy has seen a shift in intercontinental trade from "North-South" interactions between developed northern hemisphere nations and the less developed southern hemisphere nations, to "South-South" interactions between developing countries. This projects an...
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Using a detailed database on intra-MERCOSUR tariffs, we estimate the effect of tariff preferences on the origin of imports of MERCOSUR members. The results show tariff preferences affected imports patterns in the cases of Argentina and Uruguay, and to a less extent also those of Brazil. For the...
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It has generally been argued that regional trade agreements (RTAs) among developing countries may induce potential adverse effects on trade patterns among RTA members and between them and third countries. Using an expanded gravity model this paper estimates for a number of regional trade...
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Optimum Currency Area (OCA) approaches turn to be inadequate in the analysis of the new regional monetary integration schemes that have sprung up among developing and emerging market economies. Instead, in accordance with the concept of 'original sin' (Eichengreen et al.) we argue that regional...
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The dominant perspective in discussions of labour and environmental standards and globalization is that of North-South competition and its impact on Northern standards. This paper presents an alternative perspective, that of South-South competition to export to the North and its impact on...
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The zooplankton community structure of Ekerekana/Okari Creek in Okrika, South-South Nigeria had been studied for two months, February and August 2014 representing wet and dry months. Surface water for physico-chemical and zooplankton samples, were collected in 4 stations for analysis,...
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This paper examines the impact on total factor productivity of North-South and South-South trade-related research and development (R&D) spillovers. It is the first, as far as we know, to do so at the industry level for developing countries. North-South and South-South R&D flows are constructed...
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