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Can Intra-Regional Trade Act as a Global Shock Absorber in Africa?
Brixiova, Zuzana - 2015
African Community (EAC) and the Southern Africa Customs Union (SACU) – suggests that deeper intra-regional, and in particular …The global financial crisis and the subsequent uneven recovery have underscored the need for Africa's resilience to …-regional and intra-African trade with fast-growing economies, together with geographically diversified trade links, can strengthen …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016290
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Hit by the Silk Road : How Wage Coordination in Europe Mitigates the China Shock
Barth, Erling - 2020
Coordination in collective wage setting can constrain potential monopoly gains to unions in non-traded-goods industries. Countries with national wage coordination can thus stabilize overall employment against fluctuations and shocks in the world economy. We test this theory by exploring...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10012833860
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Trade and Inequality in Europe and the Us
Dorn, David; Levell, Peter - 2022
The share of low-income countries in global exports nearly tripled between 1990 and 2015, driven largely by the rapid emergence of China as an exporting powerhouse. While research in economics had long acknowledged that trade with lower-income countries could raise income inequality in Europe...
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Economic Sanctions and Trade Flows in the Neighbourhood
Bove, Vincenzo; Di Salvatore, Jessica; Nisticò, Roberto - 2023
We investigate the effect of economic sanctions on trade flows in countries sharing a border with sanctioned states. According to trade models, sanctions are expected to reduce trade flows as they disrupt established trading routes and economic relationships with suppliers and customers....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10014260611
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Should Easier Access to International Credit Replace Foreign Aid?
Bandyopadhyay, Subhayu - 2011
We examine the interaction between foreign aid and binding borrowing constraint for a recipient country. We also analyze how these two instruments affect economic growth via non-linear relationships. First of all, we develop a two-country, two-period trade-theoretic model to develop testable...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013119295
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Unofficial Development Assistance : A Dynamic Model of Charities' Donation Income
Arulampalam, Wiji - 2011
The empirical literature on the determinants of charities donation income, distinguishing the charitable cause, is small. We extend the literature in several ways. First, we focus on overseas development charities allowing us to give more consideration to the particular characteristics of this...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013127315
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Remittances and Portfolio Values : An Inquiry Using Spanish Immigrants from Africa, Europe and the Americas
Amuedo-Dorantes, Catalina - 2012
Using a recent Spanish database, we show that remittances respond to cross country differences in portfolio values. This behavior suggests that immigrants are sophisticated economic optimizers who take advantage of opportunities to invest trans-nationally given the networks that immigrants are...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013104946
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Understanding Low Average Returns to Education in Africa : The Role of Heterogeneity across Education Levels and the Importance of Political and Economic Reforms
Uwaifo Oyelere, Ruth - 2021
Until very recently, the conventional wisdom was that the return to education was very high in Africa. However, some … recent analysis point to low average returns to education in some African countries including Nigeria. Given these low …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013324905
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The Long-Term Determinants of Female HIV Infection in Africa : The Slave Trade, Polygyny, and Sexual Behavior
Bertocchi, Graziella - 2015
We study the long-term determinants of the high rates of HIV infection in sub-Saharan Africa, particularly among women …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013016394
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African Leaders : Their Education Abroad and FDI Flows
Constant, Amelie F. - 2010
we constructed from several sources, including the Library of Congress and the World Bank. Our analysis of 40 African …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10013135190