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The volatility of exchange rates leads to a reduction of international trade volumes, especially in emerging economies including the South Mediterranean countries. This study discusses the impact of exchange rates on bilateral South- North trade flows, which comes timely after the increased...
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In this article the problem of international trade of Polish e-shops were analysed. The first part of this article presents the characteristics of Polish online shops engaged in foreign sales. The focus of this part is on the European Union market. The following chapter introduces most important...
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The study provides the Ministry of Finance (MOF) of the Government of Vietnam with quantitative tools to carry out industry-level assessments of tariff and subsidy reforms that will both support the country’s WTO accession negotiations and provide needed capacity for analyzing alternative...
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In multiple regressions, explanatory variables with simple correlation coefficients with the dependent variable below 0.1 in absolute value (such as aid with economic growth) may have very large and statistically significant estimated parameters which are unfortunately �"outliers driven" and...
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This companion paper to Chatelain and Ralf (2012), “Spurious regressions with near-multicollinearity” put their results into the contexts of the history of statistics, of the current publication bias in applied sciences and of the substantive versus statistical significance debate. This...
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This chapter discusses the role of military interventionism and aid in nation-building. We argue that (1) intervention strategies of foreign actors like the United States often unfavorably interact with local institutional settings, which (2) produces undesired outcomes not only for the target...
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This chapter discusses the role of military interventionism and aid in nation-building. We argue that (1) intervention strategies of foreign actors like the United States often unfavorably interact with local institutional settings, which (2) produces undesired outcomes not only for the target...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013427743
The "Integrated Framework for Trade-related Technical Assistance to the Least Developed Countries" (IF) is a global initiative established in 1997 and is a particular application of what has since been known as "Aid for Trade". The objective of the IF is to support the least developed countries...
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« L'ODA bashing » est devenue une activité en vogue. Au-delà des procès périodiques sur la faible efficacité de l'aide, voire ses effets pervers, toute une littérature s'est développée ces dernières années pour annoncer la « fin de l'aide », en prétextant parfois que son rôle...
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In this study, we investigate the effect of official development assistance and income per capita on health outcomes in developing countries. Health outcome is proxied by life expectancy and under-5-mortality rate. We accounted for the endogeneity problem in the model by employing a dynamic...
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