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Myanmar's apparel industry in the new international environment : prospects and challenges
Kudo, Toshihiro - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2013
Myanmar’s apparel industry had long been denied access to Western markets due to sanctions against its military government. The birth of a "civilian" government in March 2011 improved Myanmar’s relations with the international community, and Western sanctions were largely lifted....
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011147336
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Firms’ Productivity and Internationalisation Choices: Evidence for a Large Sample of Italian Firms
Benfratello, Luigi; Razzolini, Tiziano - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008
This paper provides evidence on the links between productivity and internationalisation choices for a large sample of both large and small-medium sized Italian firms. By using detailed qualitative and quantitative information we first identify those firms engaged in international activities...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005086724
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Causality Relationships between Total Exports with Agricultural and Manufacturing GDP in Tanzania
Shombe, Nicolaus Herman - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
This paper, investigates causal relationships among agriculture, manufacturing and export in Tanzania by using time … variables out of three jointly cause the third one. There is also some evidence that manufacturing does not cause export and … agriculture. Regarding cointegration, pairwise agricultural GDP and export are cointegrated, export and manufacture are …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005744794
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Tracing CO2 emissions in global value chains
Meng, Bo; Peters, Glen; Wang, Zhi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
This paper integrates two lines of research into a unified conceptual framework: trade in global value chains and embodied emissions. This allows both value added and emissions to be systematically traced at the country, sector, and bilateral levels through various production network routes. By...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011167317
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Does Family Control Affect Trade Performance? Evidence for Italian Firms
Navaretti, Giorgio Barba; Faini, Riccardo; Tucci, Alessandra - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2008
This paper examines whether the export decision of firms is affected by their ownership structure, specifically it … controlled firms do indeed export less than other type of companies even after controlling for firm heterogeneity in productivity …
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The Shrimp Export Boom and Small-Scale Fishermen in Myanmar
Okamoto, Ikuko - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2008
This paper examines the impact of the recent shrimp export boom in Myanmar on the economic state of small …-scale fishermen. Results indicate that there has been an active increase in shrimp fishing stimulated by expanding export demand. With …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005222504
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Are Exporters More Likely to Introduce Product Innovations?
Bratti, Massimiliano; Felice, Giulia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011
A firm\'s export status may improve its capacity of introducing product innovations. We explore this idea using very … rich firm-level data on Italian A firm\'s export status may improve its capacity of introducing product innovations. We …\' distance from export markets and of their export market potential as instruments for differences in export activities. We find …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009019920
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Imported Inputs and Skill Upgrading
Crinò, Rosario - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011
This paper studies the effect of imported inputs on relative skilled labor demand. To this purpose, it uses firm-level data for 27 transition countries and propensity score matching techniques. The results show that importing inputs induces skill upgrading: according to a conservative estimate,...
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New Imported Inputs, New Domestic Products
Colantone, Italo; Crinò, Rosario - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2011
We study the effects of new imported inputs on the entry of new domestic products and their characteristics. To this purpose, we construct a novel, comprehensive and extremely detailed dataset, which contains product-level information on foreign trade and domestic production for 25 EU countries...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009293388
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International Labor Mobility and Child Work in Developing Countries
Paoli, Anna De; Mendola, Mariapia - Dipartimento di Economia, Management e Metodi … - 2014
This paper investigates the labor market effect of international migration on child work in countries of origin. We use an original cross-country survey dataset, which combines information on international migration with detailed individual-level data on child labor at age 5-14 in a wide range...
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