Using annual data from seventeen Latin American economies observed over the period 1982-2009 and a heterogeneous panel regression based on the pooled mean group approach of Pesaran et al. (1999), this study provides evidence to support the following findings: (1) the existing trade connection...

This study aims to identify the trade (export, import and trade balance) determinants of Nepal using extended gravity model and recommend specific trade policy to promote foreign trade. The gravity model of international trade takes notion from Newtonian physical science that the gravitational...

With the 2008 collapse of Lehman Brothers, Europe and the USA have become engulfed by sovereign debt crises, a problem that many felt no longer applied to the advanced economies. The US sub-prime loan crisis caused so much damage to the whole world, resulting in the global economy experiencing a...

In June 2013, the Russian foreign trade key indicators saw an insignificant growth on a year-on-year basis. Growth in exports was determined by increase in physical volumes of exports against falling export prices, whereas growth in imports was governed by increase in import prices against...

En un mundo progresivamente multipolar, y por tanto ante un sistema internacional cada vez más desordenado, Brasil, así como otras potencias emergentes, buscan diversificar sus relaciones comerciales ante el declive de Europa y el auge de China. De este novedoso reajuste en el tablero...

The adoption by Romania of the commercial policy of UE on multilateral, inter- regional, regional and bilateral plan concerning the relation with third extra- communitarian countries inevitably brings important changes in the extern commercial policy of our country. The aim of the article is to...

Financing (funding) is essentially the purchase of funds necessary for a business. This can be done from internal sources (company’s own funds) or external (borrowed funds). The high value of goods traded in international trade makes revenues generated from internal resources not sufficient to...

Mainstream work on careers tends to be situated within an individualistic paradigm and against a North American/Western European context (although frequently unacknowledged). This paper throws new conceptual and contextual insights on the career concept through its exploration of careers in the...

Purpose – The number of papers focusing on foreign companies doing business in China has increased significantly since the open‐door policy came into effect in the late 1970s. Performance has been one of the most researched topics. This paper aims to carry out a review of the empirical...

Purpose – The purpose of this paper is to explain the determination of China's agricultural foreign trade pattern since the World Trade Organization (WTO) accession. Design/methodology/approach – The neoclassical trade theory indicates that differences in both technology levels and factor...