Regional integration and economic development: An empirical approach [PDF]
, 2004 This paper contributes to the empirical literature by providing a quantitative measurement of the influence of regional trade integration on productivity.
Dion, David-Pascal
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World Review of Political Economy, 2010 World trade dramatically expanded after the Second World War under the GATT system, which was succeeded by the World Trade Organization. The GATT sought a multilaterally increased world trade system.
Shinjiro Hagiwara
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Regional Economic Integration and Exports Performance in the COMESA Region (1980-2012)
, 2015 One of the major development challenges facing Africa has been the small and fragmented economies with low incomes and low level of intra-regional exports. In an effort to promote intra-regional exports, Africa has witnessed renewed momentum for regional
Henry Tumwebaze Karamuriro
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Does trade integration matter for reducing intra-regional disparities? ASEAN evidence from a panel co-integration approach [PDF]
Needless to say, it is necessary to study the relative scales of the trade creation effect and the trade diversion effect to evaluate success of ASEAN trade integration and to determine whether or not the intra-bloc trade share is appropriate as an ...
PHAM Thi Hong Hanh
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Regional Inequality, Poverty and Economic Integration in Brazil. [PDF]
Gains and losses from trade liberalization are often unevenly distributed inside a country. For example, if budget shares vary according to household income, changes in commodity prices will redistribute an overall welfare change between household types.
Joaquim Bento de Souza Ferreira Filho +1 more
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Book Reviews: Development Issues: Innovations and Successes: Edited by Tasneem Ahmed Siddique
Lahore Journal of EconomicsEnthusiasm about finding the magic route to development and economic emancipation of the deprived masses of the Third World seems to have yielded place to cynicism, inertia and an air of resignation. No wonder, the world has gone back to the two hundred
Tasneem Ahmed Siddiqui
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The upswing of regional income inequality in Spain (1860–1930). [PDF]
This paper studies the evolution of Spanish regional inequality from 1860 to 1930. The results point to the coexistence of two basic forces behind changes in regional economic inequality: industrial specialization and labor productivity differentials ...
Martínez-Galarraga, Julio +2 more
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International Stock Markets Comovements: the Role of Economic and Financial Integration [PDF]
In this paper the contributions of economic and financial integration to international stock markets comovements are investigated by means of a large scale macroeconometric model, set in the factor vector autoregressive framework (FVAR).
Claudio Morana
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Regional Economic Integration in Africa [PDF]
, 2014 State and Government leaders of the African Union adopt and implement efforts for regional integration as a common strategy for the development of the continent. The objective at continental level is the establishment of the African Economic Community as the last of six consecutive stages, including the strengthening of inter-sectoral cooperation and ...
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Macroeconomic effects of international regional economic integration: global practice and challenges for Ukraine [PDF]
International Economic Policy, 2015 In the article the causes and macroeconomic peculiarities of the formation and operation of international regional economic associations of various forms have been studied.
Nataliia Fedirko +1 more
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