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We review a recent body of theoretical work that aims to put numbers on the consequences of globalization. A unifying … globalization. …
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Increasing moves away from multilateralism have created a fragmented trade and investment scenario where economies progressively combine the application of restrictive unilateral actions with bilateral and regional preferences. The application of, and exceptions to, the non-discrimination...
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, protectionism, and globalization. We find that preferences for open-market trade policies cannot be sufficiently explained by …-suited predictors for the substantial cross-regional variation in the support for globalization. Country specific narratives are …
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This paper develops a method to measure difficulties in market access over a large set of countries (both developing and developed) and industries, during the period 1980-2006. We use a micro-founded heterogeneous-consumers model to estimate the impact of national borders on global and regional...
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Regional integration is the strategy adopted at the continental level to strengthen Africa’s development. However, the different regional blocs already established on the continent face many challenges. Based on the economic integration of the ECOWAS (Economic Community of West African States)...
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The concept of globalization refers to the growing interdependence of countries, resulting from the increasing … process are the international trade and the cross-border investment flows. Economic globalization has increased the … specialization of workers, while the companies compete in global markets. Even globalization has recently become a common topic in …
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one-world one-system market an how it affects emerging countries like Colombia. Path dependence approaches explain current … we consider that economic practices advanced by the multinational corporations will determine changes in the one-world …
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globalization attempt. This paper also reflex the interest to deepen on the conditions that accelerated the political advance of the … nation-state and the reasons that supported the rapid spread around the world of democracy showing some of the removed … by market principles lead finally towards the appearance of a "world-system" in the shape we know it today …
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21st century, where the Nation-state will have to undergo important institutional transformations and compete with world … institutions to sustain and distribute enlarged world trade benefits and receive benefits of direct foreign investment. Encouraging … further enlargement of the world market production frontier will need the creation of new political and economic tools to …
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We examine how trade openness influences income inequality within countries. The sample includes 139 countries over the period 1970-2014. We employ predicted openness as instrument to deal with the endogeneity of trade openness. The effect of trade openness on income inequality differs across...
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