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The Generalized System of Preferences (GSP), the program instituted in 1976 that allows developing countries to export thousands of products to the United States duty-free, is an important element of U.S. efforts to promote economic growth in the developing world. However, since the program's...
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sustainable development. Looming environmental crises have served as a prime motivating force for reevaluating fundamental … begun to reshape economics. The broadest conception of sustainability is found if we understand sustainable development to … mean Socially And Environmentally Just And Sustainable development - "SAEJAS development". Throughout the paper we will see …
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-dimensional, it is conceptualised as a goal and as a process that accelerates growth, equity and human development potential. We … development outcomes such as life expectancy, literacy, infant mortality rate and per capita income (logarithms of), within the … better quality of governance leads to better development outcomes. …
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digital divide seems to be narrowing in the near future. Concerning the trade and production structure most countries of the …
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The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two large data bases of wage inequality that have...
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expenditures on tradables and non-tradables, trade openness and real interest differentials. On the basis of these fundamentals … misalignment appears to be small as well. The paper also discusses the implications of these findings with regard to trade …
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This paper is an empirical investigation on the relationship between trade globalization and political liberalization … prediction that political liberalization could discourage trade and trade could foster democracy. …
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The objective of the paper is to answer an often-asked question : if tariff rates are reduced, what will happen to wage inequality ? We consider two types of wage inequality : between occupations (skills premium), and between industries. We use two large data bases of wage inequality that have...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005119296
If, in international agreements, governments “link'' trade to environmental policy (or other issues with non … standards at the expense of higher tariffs). However, if the linked policies are not independent in the governments' objective … promotes more cooperation in both issues (higher environmental standards and lower tariffs) than no-linkage. The policies are …
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Factor-endowment based trade with the leading economy helps to explain the differing development performances of the …-endowment based trade and economic ties with the secondary advanced economy (first the U.S. and then Japan) played important roles in …
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