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From silver to cocaine : Latin American commodity chains and the building of the world economy, 1500 - 2000

Topik, Steven (contributor); Marichal, Carlos (contributor); … - 2006

Examining the commodity chains that have connected producers in Latin America with consumers around the world for 500 years, this work follows a specific commodity from its inception, through its development and transport, to its final destination in the hands of consumers

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France : Selected Issues

International Monetary Fund - 2000

This paper presents an overview of the different methodologies that can be used to measure the amount of available slack in an economy. A comparison of these alternatives reveals that the evolution of the Nairu is crucial for understanding recent cyclical developments in the French economy. A...

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Exports and Economic Development

Villanueva, Delano - 1993

diversification of the export sector. The latter, in turn, has been influenced by capital accumulation and economic growth. The growth … export expansion and its interaction with saving and investment …

Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014398124

Hysteresis in Exports

Giovannetti, Giorgia - 1995

model of export determination is developed where the presence of sunk costs causes discontinuous behavior and hysteresis so …

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The Export Performance of Sub-Saharan Africa, 1970-1990 : A Survey

Greene, Joshua E. - 1992

The export performance of Sub-Saharan Africa has lagged behind that of developing countries in other regions for the … past two decades, and total export proceeds have fallen significantly since 1980. Many factors explain this outcome … new agricultural products and light manufactures could boost export earnings, but only if the region can compete …

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Madagascar : A Competitiveness and Exchange Rate Assessment

Eyraud, Luc - 2009

The purpose of this paper is to assess Madagascar''s competitiveness in recent years, using both price and nonprice indicators and an exchange rate assessment of the currency. We estimate the distance between the equilibrium and the actual real exchange rates using three methods: the...

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Czech Republic, Republic of Estonia, Hungary, Republic of Latvia, Republic of Lithuania, Republic of Poland, Slovak Republic, and Republic of Slovenia : Export Structure and Credit...

International Monetary Fund - 2006

Of the new members entering the European Union (EU) in May 2004, several had achieved a decade of impressive export …

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Does Globalization Lower Wages and Export Jobs?

Slaughter, Matthew J. - 1997

Increased globalization - the international integration of markets for goods, technology, labor, and capital - has coincided in the past 20 years with a shift in demand from less-skilled workers to those with more skills. Have imports from developing countries been responsible for the lowered...

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Uruguay : selected issues

Internationaler Währungsfonds - 2022

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Export Quality in Developing Countries

Henn, Christian - 2013

This paper develops new, far more extensive estimates of export quality, covering 178 countries and hundreds of …

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