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Spielmann, Christian; Busse, Matthias - 2005

The paper empirically explores the international linkages between gender inequality and trade flows of a sample of 92 developed and developing countries. The focus is on comparative advantage in labour-intensive manufactured goods. The results indicate that gender wage inequality is positively...

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Emission Targets, Comparative Advantage and Trade: A New Reading of David Ricardo

Kolev, Galina - 2020

The paper represents a new reading of the traditional Ricardian theory of comparative advantages to tackle current challenges of environmental and climate policy. In the style of David Ricardo, it demonstrates that international trade is a positive-sum game in a twogoods, two-countries world...

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Technical economical effects of the measures on the pigs welfare and protection

Chetroiu, Rodica - 2012

. This notion includes health, productive comfort and also involves the animal protection. The Universal Declaration on … Animal Welfare, issued by the World Society for Animals Protection, defines welfare as: Degree in which the animal physical … welfare and protection, including farm animals. There are seven measures to ensure the minimum standards concerning animal …

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The functions of land in irrigation in Serbia

Kljajić, Nataésa; Mijajlović, Nada; Arsić, Slavica - 2012

Land represents one of the key factors limiting crop production due to the simultaneous action of two processes as demand for food increasing, on the one hand, and reducing the area of agricultural land, on the other. Production capacity of the land reduces the continuous processes and damages...

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Shelter-belts: The solution for protecting crops and increasing productions in the lands affcted by the desertification phenomenon in Oltenia

Marin, Ancuţa - 2015

obtained when the protection of the agrarian fields was made with the help of the shelter-belts arrays, made so that two …

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Reaping the Gains: Specialization and Capital Flows

Schwab, Jakob; Ortseifer, Christina - 2015

This paper gives a new answer to the old question of whether international trade and capital flows are substitutes or complements. In contrast to conventional intuition, we show that when Heckscher-Ohlin trade takes place in high-skill and low-skill intensive goods, this does create incentives...

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International Trade and Management of Shared Renewable Resource

Takarada, Yasuhiro; Ogawa, Takeshi; Dong, Weijia - 2012

This paper examines the effects of international trade and resource management in a two-country model where each country controls domestic harvest to prevent over-exploitation of an internationally shared renewable resource (e.g., fishery resources). We show that contrary to conventional wisdom,...

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Does trade cause long-run development? Theory and evidence from countries behind the Suez channel

Gerritse, Michiel - 2015

Does trade improve institutions and contribute to long run growth? I develop a theory of trade, in which trade liberalization provides incentive to change institutions in two ways. On the one hand, trade leads to specialization according to comparative advantage, expanding the industries that do...

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Trade Liberalization and Income Distribution: A CGE Model for Jordan

Feraboli, Omar; Trimborn, Timo - 2009

The Association Agreement between Jordan and the EU entered into force in 2002. It provides a gradual reduction of import duties on EU products over a period of twelve years. In this paper we investigate the economic implications of induced trade liberalization on aggregate economic performance...

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Icebergs versus Tariffs: A Quantitative Perspective on the Gains from Trade

Jung, Benjamin; Felbermayr, Gabriel; Larch, Mario - 2013

We derive a simple equation for the welfare gains from trade when tariffs are liberalized or iceberg trade costs fall. Covering various one-sector trade models that may or may not feature extensive margins and imperfect competition, we generalize the analysis of Arkolakis, Costinot and...

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