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India’s Look East Policy
Haokip, Thongkholal - In: South Asian Survey 18 (2011) 2, pp. 239-257
Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) as its core. The new phase thus marks a shift in focus from trade to wider economic …
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The euro’s effect on trade
Sadeh, Tal - In: European Union Politics 15 (2014) 2, pp. 215-234
This study argues that the euro area more than doubled trade among its members, but this process was delayed and fitful … their critics. Furthermore, the euro area has increased the trade of its Mediterranean members more than the trade of other … member states; it also raised trade with non-members by some 35%. The article innovates mainly by constructing a more …
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Can South–South Trade Agreements Reduce Development Deficits?
Bhattacharya, Swapan K.; Das, Gouranga G. - In: Journal of South Asian Development 9 (2014) 3, pp. 253-285
€™ constraints and analyzes the potential synergy between trade and development goals in the context of SAARC. In particular, the … article demonstrates: (a) a considerable potential for improvement of trade complementarities among SAARC members; (b) a long …-run scope for gains from trade; (c) country-specific ‘socio-political–economical–institutional’ rigidities form â …
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Trade-based skills versus occupational capacity: the example of bricklaying in Europe
Clarke, Linda; Winch, Christopher; Brockmann, Michaela - In: Work, Employment & Society 27 (2013) 6, pp. 932-951
This article shows why qualifications built on occupational capacity rather than on trade-based skills have more …€˜skill’ attached to a trade-based system of vocational education and training (VET), where qualifications have weak labour market … stakeholders, recognized through qualifications, and bricklaying as a demarcated trade, defined by output and with â …
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Myanmar’s China Policy: Agendas, Strategies and Challenges
Cook, Alistair D. B. - In: China Report 48 (2012) 3, pp. 269-281
Over the past two decades there has been increasing international attention to the interactions between Myanmar and China. While China has significant influence in relation to other international actors, there is also significant calculation by the government in Myanmar in an effort to ensure...
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“We’d Have to Sink the Shipsâ€: Impact Studies and the 2002 West Coast Port Lockout
Hall, Peter V. - In: Economic Development Quarterly 18 (2004) 4, pp. 354-367
During the West Coast port lockout in fall 2002, a widely quoted estimate claimed that a 10-day shutdown of port facilities would cost the U.S. economy $1.94 billion a day. This article argues that the estimated economic losses were vastly over inflated, and the episode provides an opportunity...
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Preferential Attachment, Homophily, and the Structure of International Networks, 1816–2003
Maoz, Zeev - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 29 (2012) 3, pp. 341-369
homogenous subgroups. An analysis of alliance and trade networks over the 1816 (1870)–2003 period reveals strong evidence that … alliance networks are affected by homophily processes. Trade networks form via a preferential attachment process. The tendency …
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Mission accomplished: A reply to Reuveny and Keshk
Goenner, Cullen F. - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 30 (2013) 1, pp. 19-23
Reuveny and Keshk (“Reconsidering trade and conflict simultaneity: The risk of emphasizing technique over substance …€“477, 2011) to test and control for endogeneity when estimating the relationship between trade and conflict lack substance …
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Trading Data
Barbieri, Katherine; Keshk, Omar M.G.; Pollins, Brian M. - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 26 (2009) 5, pp. 471-491
Some scholars have rushed to judgment about the nature of the relationship between trade and conflict, making strong … official trade statistics; the treatment of missing trade data; and problems with some decision rules being adopted within our … research community. We introduce the new Correlates of War (COW) Trade Data Set; discuss the rationale behind our coding …
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A Trade Institution as a Peaceful Institution? A Contribution to Integrative Theory
Caruso, Raul - In: Conflict Management and Peace Science 23 (2006) 1, pp. 53-72
particular, the article investigates whether a trade institution committed to free and fair trade could foster â …
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