the limited data available, the recycling of these resources back to the world economy through the trade channel, via … higher imports, or the financial channel, via an increase in the net external asset position of these countries. Our results … show that around 50% of the windfall revenue has been used to increase imports, while the rest has been directed towards …

the limited data available, the recycling of these resources back to the world economy through the trade channel, via … higher imports, or the financial channel, via an increase in the net external asset position of these countries. Our results … show that around 50% of the windfall revenue has been used to increase imports, while the rest has been directed towards …

In this paper we estimate gravity models to see whether trade volumes of countries in the MENA region are significantly … show that the variables used in standard gravity models cannot explain a significant part of MENA's trade performance …, particularly on exports. We then go on to 'augment' the standard gravity model with relevant variables from the World Bank …

For the first time since the mid-1980s, the Census Bureau's Foreign Trade Division is compiling U.S. import statistics … at the state level. What picture emerges from this first look at the state’s imports in some years? …

. The inquiry will also look at relevant workplace issues and international trade developments. …

Using recent regional data from Russia, the pattern of trade of Russia’s regions with the CIS and rest of the world … (non-CIS) is examined using a series of gravity equations. Some evidence of shifting trade patterns toward non …-CIS countries is found, but trade still has an inward orientation from the Soviet era reflecting infrastructure and other ties that …

trade balance movements strictly to those determinants of trade flows suggested by economic theory. These determinants are …The purpose of the present paper is to review the sources of France's trade surplus in recent years and to attribute …