) in high-technology goods trade. To this end, Balassa's method of analysing revealed comparative advantages (RCA) was … international competitiveness in this regard is relatively low, the direct consequence of which is the growing negative trade …-technology goods, while the number of advantages for Estonia and Latvia was relatively small. Still, among the three Baltic States …

In this paper we analyse the impact of foreign aid on gender outcomes and attitudes. We do this by matching geocoded … household surveys with aid projects. This offers a middle way between project evaluations and aggregated cross …-country comparisons, measuring an average community effect around projects. We find increased opportunities for women to work outside the …

This survey of the 2016 replenishments of three multilateral development bank soft funds and of the Global Fund for …, the International Development Association). 'Graduation' of countries away from eligibility for highly concessional … multilateral finance is also changing the context. This paper underlines the need for more consideration of these wider structural …

Woman-owned firms engage differently with finance for trade. The barriers they face in starting and running a business … that finance is often the primary barrier to trade. We seek to deepen and modernize this finding by using a unique data set … of exclusion in access to finance - access to basic finance and access to trade finance. The latter is driven by …

To what extent do the World Health Organization, the World Trade Organization, and the World Bank remain central today … course of global governance in health, trade, and development finance has changed irreversibly. Second, regional arrangements … trade, and variation in multilateral development finance. Global governance in the 21st century is thus characterized by a …

This paper deals with the international trade interrelations between Spain and its closest neighbours to the South and … West: Portugal and Morocco. It analyses the importance of optical products in the trade balance with those countries. To do … so, a Social Accounting Matrix for Spain is used as a benchmark economic model, where the optical sector has been …

Despite the EU emphasis on the 1995 Barcelona process, trade integration with the Mediterranean (MED) countries is … compute the trade potential of these EU partners from 1995 to 2002 using an out-of-sample methodology. The coefficients are … taken from different panel estimators of the gravity equation relative to intra-EU trade. Our analysis suggests the …

community through aid for trade (AfT), which has instead been worryingly dwindling in recent years. Finally, we argue that MDG8 … efficiently and effectively seems to be a more important area for support in Bolivia. As far as trade is concerned, Bolivia …Millennium Development Goal number 8 (MDG8) concerns those external flows (Official Development Assistance, trade and …

theme of results concludes that public relations are expected in the future virtue to search for the appropriate practices … and managerial approaches for better awareness of public relations, innovation, and investment practice in the research …

. The determinant variables of FDI are political stability, inflation rate, trade openness, exchange rate, market size and … political stability, trade openness, and market size has positive relationship with the FDI inflows of the country. The …