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far, might be "the tip of the iceberg": the latter two results carry over when China's trade data are excluded from the … the beggar-thy-neighbor view: (i) undervaluation of the domestic currency improves the domestic trade balance; and most … importantly, (ii) undervaluation of the domestic currency negatively impacts the other countries' trade balances. Starting from …
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combine trade, aid and investment, which may create 'lock-in' effects. China's trade and investment focus on the commodities …The paper analyses the economic relationships between China and Sub-Saharan African countries, including original … contractual relationships that link exports from Sub-Saharan Africa to China and investment by Chinese firms in Sub-Saharan Africa …
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Malaysia has a total capacity pulp and paper production at over 1 million T/year. The country is a net importer of pulp, paper, and paper board, and progressively tends to decrease its dependency. However, the self-sufficiency is growing at a slow rate. All the paper mills of the country are...
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Regarding the forest sector, in a context of substantial areas of denuded and bare lands (initially around 25% of Vietnam area), forestry rehabilitation and development plans have been continuously on the focus in Vietnam since the end of the war. The first projects were planned under an...
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After decades of war, Cambodia is one of the world's poorest nations, its economy and its political life are still suffering from the civil war that racked the country during the latter part of the 20th century. Rice and rubber were traditionally the principal exports of Cambodia, but exports...
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The paper surveys the main contributions of new economic geography from the point of view of transport analysis. It shows that decreasing transport costs is likely to exacerbate regional disparities. However, very low transport costs should foster a more balanced distribution for economic...
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Financial constraints affecting new firms are some of the factors most cited forimpeding entrepreneurial dynamics from flourishing. This article introduces the problem ofregional patterns of financial constraints. The research is conducted with regard to the Frenchregions and the new French...
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This paper will investigate the Granger causality between outward Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) and the exports of goods and services in 11 European countries from 1996 to 2008. Using a new method to evaluate causality in a heterogeneous panel, we find that the causal relationship from FDI to...
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Thanks to its empirical success, the gravity approach is widely used to explain trade patterns between countries. In … this article we question the simple application of this approach to product/sector-level trade on two grounds. First, we … expenditures are not strictly equal to sector productions because some trade costs are incurred outside the sector of interest …
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international trade. It provides new evidence about the effect of a gap in environmental policies between trading partners on trade … downsizing environmental degradation. Second, the effect of these revealed environmental policies is assessed on bilateral trade …
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