Can the clothing sector be a driver of export diversification and growth for today's low-income countries as it was in the past for countries that have graduated into middle income? This paper assesses this issue taking into account key changes to the market for clothing: the emergence of India...

The African Growth and Opportunity Act (AGOA) is the flagship of U.S. commercial and development policy with Sub-Saharan Africa. This paper looks at the impact of the trade preferences that are the central element of AGOA on African countries'exports to the U.S. and puts them in the perspective...

Trade can be a key driver of growth for African countries, as it has been for those countries, particularly in East Asia, that have experienced high and sustained rates of growth. Economic partnership agreements with the European Union could be instrumental in a competitiveness framework, but to...

The Almost Ideal Demand System can be made integrable by a slight change in its specification.

How can we best explain the behavior of exports into Britain and Germany from 1975 to 1995? Our study uses a highly disaggregated data det to find some evidence of hysteresis in trade flows (rather stronger for German imports than for British) and the role of technology proxies, particularly...

Are home and foreign products equally close substitutes? Our study uses highly disaggregated data to investigate the home preference bias in the Swedish fabricated metals sector, which appears to be declining.

In this paper, we seek to adapt the analysis of Moshini et al by proosing a block structure for the price parameter matrix. This approch is slightlymore restrictive in terms of constraining the substitution effects in a s ingle level demand system, and so conserves further degrees of freedom.