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Determinants of Structural Changes of Food Exports from Developing Countries

Jongwanich, Juthathip - 2015

Over the past three decades, there has been a rapid expansion of processed food exports in developing countries, replacing traditional agriculture exports such as coffee and tea. However, this development and its policy implications have received little attention in the literature. This paper...

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Global Value Chains and the Transmission of Business Cycle Shocks

Gangnes, Byron - 2012

The collapse of trade during the great recession of 2008-2009 has raised the question of whether the rise of global value chains (GVCs) has increased or accelerated the international transmission of business cycle shocks. In this paper, we empirically investigate two channels through which a...

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Effects of Financial Market Imperfections on Indian Firms’ Exporting Behavior

Ito, Hiro - 2011

Indian firms from entering export markets …

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Tracking the Middle-Income Trap : What is it, Who is in it, and Why? Part 2

Felipe, Jesus - 2012

This paper proposes and analyzes one possible reason why some countries get stuck in the middle-income trap: the role played by the changing structure of the economy (from low-productivity activities into high-productivity activities), the types of products exported (not all products have the...

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Tracking the Middle-Income Trap : What is It, Who is in It, and Why?: Part 1

Felipe, Jesus - 2012

This paper provides a working definition of what the middle-income trap is. It classifies 124 countries that have consistent data for 1950-2010. First, the paper defines four income groups of gross domestic product per capita in 1990 purchasing power parity dollars: low-income below $2,000; lower...

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Ownership Structure and Export Performance : Firm-Level Evidence from the Republic of Korea

Kim, Sangho - 2012

and their export performance. To do so, we use data from the Republic of Korea, a classic example of successful export … has a positive or negative effect on export performance. The primary contribution of our study is to help remedy this … more concentrated ownership are more likely to be exporters, and to export more …

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Exports and Employment in Indonesia : The Decline in Labor-Intensive Manufacturing and the Rise of Services

Aswicahyono, H. H. - 2012

jobs in the services sector, partly because of indirect connections with the main export industries. This could be enhanced …

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The Lao Economy : Capitalizing on Natural Resource Exports

Menon, Jayant - 2013

how the government uses these revenues. This paper examines how the Lao PDR's export-led growth can be channeled into …

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A Case for Value-Added Exports in the Estimation of Export Diversification in Asia and the Pacific

Bajaj, Pallavi; Baris, Kristina; Gonzales, Patricia; … - 2022

Export diversification, or the breadth of exports of an economy, is increasingly seen as a means of accelerating … indicator of export diversification based on value added in sectors contributing to exports. For most Asia and the Pacific … economies, the gross exports approach underestimates export diversification compared to the value-added approach. Analyzing the …

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Asian FTAs : Trends, Prospects, and Challenges

Kawai, Masahiro - 2010

Although a latecomer, economically important Asia has emerged at the forefront of global free trade agreement (FTA) activity. This has sparked concerns about the negative effects of Asian FTAs, including the “noodle bowl” problem. Amid slow progress in the World Trade Organization's (WTO)...

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