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This paper investigates the impact of economic and commercial diplomacy on the geography of international trade. We replicate a recent study by Rose (2007) extending the analysis to include the year 2006 and 63 importing and exporting countries. Using a gravity model we are able to demonstrate...
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often portrayed in an overly simplified manner as the main factor hindering agricultural development, African countries are … of state centralisation for agricultural development, so that African partners can fully take advantage of the …
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Since at least the 1960s, the European Union (EU) has offered various kinds of non-reciprocal trade preferences for developing countries. Originally, these trade preferences had at least two policy goals: (i) to increase export volumes for developing countries and thereby boost their export...
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Since at least the 1960s, the European Union (EU) has offered various kinds of non-reciprocal trade preferences for developing countries. Originally, these trade preferences had at least two policy goals: (i) to increase export volumes for developing countries and thereby boost their export...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010206704
This article analyses several aspects of the divergent economic evolution of North America at the 20-year mark of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), with a particular focus on the Mexican economy. Mexico's principal economic role in NAFTA has been that of a secondary exporter, with...
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This survey of the 2016 replenishments of three multilateral development bank soft funds and of the Global Fund for … AIDS, TB and Malaria shows that a significant re-set of the multilateral development finance system is taking place, with …, the International Development Association). 'Graduation' of countries away from eligibility for highly concessional …
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This survey of the 2016 replenishments of three multilateral development bank soft funds and of the Global Fund for … AIDS, TB and Malaria shows that a significant re-set of the multilateral development finance system is taking place, with …, the International Development Association). 'Graduation' of countries away from eligibility for highly concessional …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011777028
The mechanisms underlying the relation between development and security are difficult to define and poorly understood …, will lead to increased socioeconomic development. However, in many postwar settings, low state capacity is seen as a …
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The European Investment Bank contributes to EU objectives by providing long-term funding for specific projects in compliance with the prudential banking regulations. The EIB continuously adapts its activity to recent developments in EU policies. Within the EU, the EIB Group's ambition is to...
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In the past two decades, there has been a growing engagement between development and human rights practitioners and …-fertilization and learning—the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) themselves being a fruit of this convergence? This note addresses … three points. The first point is the growing convergence between human rights and development thinking along several …
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