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Showing 1 to 13 of 13 for “"Trade growth"”.
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Three essays on trade, growth, and labor mobility
Thesis (Ph. D.)--Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Dept. of Economics, 1994.
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International Trade Costs and the Intensive and Extensive Margins of Agricultural Trade
… describes two essays in empirical international trade, focusing on trade costs and the pattern of trade along the intensive and extensive margins. In the first essay, I study the barriers that impede international trade. In the second paper, I examine the growth of U.S. agricultural trade in …
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Towards a More Efficient Tariff Rate Quota Regime: Evidence from Chinese Firm-Level Grain Imports
… shed new light on the dynamics of international trade. Despite gaining significant traction in the international economics literature, firm-level analysis in the agricultural economics literature is comparatively rare, particularly in an emerging, industrialized economy such as China. This …
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Who Governs the Sea? An Analysis of the Regime Complex in International Shipping
… important questions about power distributions, trade, growth, global governance, jurisdiction, policy coordination, sovereignty, and regimes. Although shipping is a space that can be used to illustrate many International Relations ideas, it has been understudied in International Relations. This …
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Essays on Public Education Expenditure, Trade Openness and Economic Growth of India
… debated issues in the empirical education and trade literature in the context of India.<br/><br/>Chapter 3 examines the impact of public education expenditure and trade openness on economic growth of India using aggregate or country level data. The estimation results indicate that public …
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Assessing the impact of exports and imports on economic growth: a case study of Malawi from 1970 to 2010
In line with neoclassical economic growth propositions that outward-orientation fosters economic growth, since independence from Britain in 1964 the Government of Malawi has placed international trade at the centre of its economic development agenda. In spite of this theoretical affirmation of the …
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Comparison on the rules of origin for customs and excise
… is currently an emerging economy and has various trade agreements with the United States of America and the United Kingdom according to which South Africa enjoys different preferential rules of origin. In some respects, current customs and excise legislation relating to rules of origin places …
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Establishing an effective legal framework for the growth of SMEs toward the African continental free trade
… can play a vital role in what the intra-Africa trade growth of the African Continental Free Trade Area (AfCFTA) aims for. One of the greatest problems hindering SMEs' growth is the absence of legal frameworks that adequately address their challenges. This study identified key challenges faced by …
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The determinants of intra-regional trade in Southern Africa
… imminent conclusion of a Southern Africa free-trade agreement (FTA). The major question addressed in the thesis is whether trade integration is achievable and desirable. It does not take for granted that a FTA will automatically induce more trade in the region. The research focuses primarily on …
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Openness and economic growth
The themes of this thesis are that international trade and foreign direct investment (FDI) are closely related and that they have varying impacts on economic growth in countries at different stages of development. The thesis consists of three empirical studies. The first one examines the causal …
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Opportunity costs of trade-related capacity development in Sub-Saharan Africa
… institutions and infrastructure development on trade flows. This paper studies these issues in the context 010n90in9 trade-related capacity building initiatives and evaluates the opportunity cost of different trade-related capacity building policy mixes. Trade-related technical assistance and …
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The Impact of EU Aid on the Trade Performance between the EU and Vietnam
… other empirical work in explaining bilateral trade variation using gravity model. - Economic size has strong influence on trade as high economic growth together with high income will increase the demand for importing goods. - However, it is interesting to note that the negative coefficient of …