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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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This paper surveys existing measures of economic openness understood as the degree to which non-domestic actors can or do participate in a domestic economy. We introduce a typology of openness indicators, which distinguishes between "real" and "financial" openness as well as between "de facto"...
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We investigate the claim that national labor markets have become more globally interconnected in recent decades. We do so by deriving estimates over time of three different notions of interconnection: (i) the share of labor demand that is export induced (i.e., all labor demand created by foreign...
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This paper aims to provide a critical overview of the drivers that the relevant theoretical and empirical literature suggests being crucial in dealing with the challenges an emerging country may encounter in its attempts to further catch-up a higher income status, with a particular focus devoted...
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We introduce the revised version of the KOF Globalisation Index, a composite index measuring globalization for every … country in the world along the economic, social and political dimension. The original index was introduced by Dreher (2006 … along the different dimensions of globalization. We also disentangle trade and financial globalization within the economic …
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