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We compare economic efficiencies in Brazil, India, and China, where economic efficiency measures the gap between potential and actual output for a given input combination and technological factor. We use stochastic production frontier models to measure the contributions of factors of production...
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protectionist import substitution policies but as these failed developing countries have opened up to trade and FDI and tried to … follow strategies of export driven industrialization. If we consider the share of non-OECD countries in global trade in … Africa. In this paper we present a two region product life cycle model of global specialization and trade. In it we analyse …
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. Having discussed the nature and dynamics of the GAE, the paper turns to sketch a series of vectors (trade, aid and energy …
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international trade. It is up to the donor country to decide what fraction of any given aid package is to be made available for the …
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and growth in services' trade. The objective of this paper is to build a simple three sector quantitative model which can … productivity (TFP) and increase in the level of trade in industrial and service sectors. The results from a counterfactual … of sectoral trade negligibly affects the results. Hence I conclude that services' productivity growth versus the increase …
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impact on manufacturing employment? This paper attempts to answer this question by estimating the effects of trade with China … effects of trade with China and India on the level of employment in Argentina's manufacturing sector. Results suggest that … trade with China and India only had a small negative effect on industrial employment, even during the swift trade …
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Vietnam's development performance since the early 1990s has been one of the strongest in the world, following the introduction of its doi moi (renovation) economic reform programme in 1986. The core of Vietnam's economic strategy has been rapid integration into the world economy, with a...
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as opposed to direct taxes. Consumption taxes were seen to be more favourable to investments and hence growth. Trade … export-led industrialization. Trade taxes were therefore used to create a competitive exports sector rather than protect the …
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This paper analyses the status of food security in selected South Pacific Island countries, namely Cook Islands, Fiji Islands, Papua New Guinea, Samoa, Solomon Islands, Tonga, and Vanuatu at the national and household levels during the period 1991-2002. Due to narrow resource base and production...
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We analyse the business cycles in China and in selected OECD countries between 1992 and 2006. We show that, although negative correlation dominates for nearly all countries, we can also see large differences for various frequencies of cyclical developments. On the one hand, nearly all OECD...
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