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Why No Chinese Miracle in Africa? Special Economic Zones and Liberalization Avalanches

Moberg, Lotta - 2014

Special economic zones (SEZs) have been touted as “tools for development”, and yet their results have often been disappointing. We explain how SEZs can be used to reform a country from a system dominated by rent-seeking to a liberalized economy, where officials derive their revenues from...

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The impact of G7 trade policies on economic development in Africa

Wolf, Moritz - 2024

Economic development in Africa is among the most important global challenges today. Meanwhile, the G7 is under pressure due to system competition and the question of legitimacy and effectiveness. The recent PGII initiative uses investment to improve economic development in Africa. But what about...

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Education, governance, and trade- and distance-related technology diffusion : accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP gap, and the TFP impact of South America's greater dist...

Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017

This paper examines the impact of education, governance and North-South trade- and distance-related technology diffusion on TFP in the South, focusing on South America (SA), Mexico, Latin America (LA) and East Asia for the 32-year period preceding the Great Recession (1976-2007) in a new model...

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Education, governance, and trade- and distance-related technology diffusion : accounting for the Latin America-East Asia TFP gap, and the TFP impact of South America's greater dist...

Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - 2017

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North-South trade-related technology diffusion and the East Asia-Latin America productivity gap

Schiff, Maurice W.; Wang, Yanling - In: World trade review 22 (2023) 3/4, pp. 348-358

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Can South-South trade liberalisation stimulate North-South trade?

Fugazza, Marco; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - 2006

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Can South-South trade liberalisation stimulate North-South trade?

Fugazza, Marco; Robert-Nicoud, Frédéric - In: Journal of economic integration 21 (2006) 2, pp. 234-253

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Is the Washington consensus dead? : growth, openness, and the great liberation, 1970s - 2000s

Estevadeordal, Antoni; Taylor, Alan M. - 2009

According to the Washington Consensus, developing countries’ growth would benefit from reductions in barriers to trade. However, the empirical basis for judging trade reforms is weak. Econometrics are mostly ad hoc; results are typically not judged against models; policies are poorly measured;...

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International Trade and its Effects on Economic Growth in China

Sun, Peng - 2010

the country to target the world as its market. This research discusses the role of international trade in China's economic … extensively. This research then evaluates the effects of international trade on China's economic growth through examining … improvement in productivity. Both econometric and non-parametric approaches are applied based on a 6-year balanced panel data of …

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Firm-level productivity spillovers from FDI in Latin American countries

Mühlen, Henning - 2013

spillovers - which are supposed to affect productivity levels of other firms in a host country. Empirical results on this topic …' productivity levels. The impact is assessed as an average effect for the full set of countries as well as for each economy …

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