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The world trade is a powerful squeeze in global relations by unifiying regions and generating hierarchies. New theories of trade, through agent-based simulations and the recognition of the institutional variety of business and non-business units, shed new light on the reasons of poverty, development, competition, co-operation, industrial integration.
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India – Sri Lanka : Comprehensive Economic
Partnership Agreement (October 2008) An evaluation of the opportunities and challenges opened by the intensive negotiation work between these two neighbours.
Trade with thy neighbour Proximity international trade creates the kind of relative bilateral monopoly that might bring to economic integration on equal foot, with deep reciprocation and internalization of bilateral externalities. Marginalized sub-national regions and communities might thrive because of the activation of legal trade across the border. This paper assesses the importance of trade between neighbours for the involved regions and for the overall structure of the world relationships.
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Bilateral and total trade of all countries
in the world: a long time series An amazing huge dataset with the bilateral trade balance, imports, and export of 186 countries with each other (square matrices of 186 x 186), with yearly data from 1948 to 2000 (52 matrices). Standardized consistent values.
Hierarchy
structures in world trade
Check the position of your country in the world system!
The dynamics of hierarchy structures in world trade Paper presented by EWI director at Princeton University.
Bilateral import promotion as a key to integration in a hierarchical world Changing the world order from below: a challenge for rich and poor countries. This is a first policy to raise integration relations instead of dependence and isolation.
Proximity
in product space and diversification strategies
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Bilateral trade by product A huge cubic matrix of international trade by exporter, importer, and product. About 1 million records indicating trade among any two countries in the world (total and by product). From this dataset you can extract the world market for more than 1000 product categories (standard SITC codes at 4-digits of aggregation), exhaustive of merchandise trade. Cumulative values for 1998, 1999 and 2000. Data in DBF format, easily readably by free viewers and MS Access. Export competitiveness of 182 countries Export composition and Balassa index. Bilateral
merchandise balance among 99 countries
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Bilateral
remittances flows among 212 countries
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Economic data: Exports, imports, trade balances for 181 countries - a time-series Absolute figures, shares in world trade, rankings.
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Origins and destinations in world trade - Trade flows over time
Emigrants'
remittances (205 countries): a long time series
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World trade statistics
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World trade in 2004, prospects for 2005 In 2004, China has become the third largest exporter and importer in the world. World trade in 2003 by product Summary statistics about trade values and flows in agriculture, the mining sector, manufacture, commercial services.
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Exchange rates for 200 currencies, spanning across more than 20 years In one sheet you can track and compare the yearly dynamics of 200 world currencies on the long term. Currency crises, fixed exchange rates and wide fluctuations in a fully international perspective.
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UNCTAD Trade and Development Reports 1996-2007 2005 PDF 2004 2003 2002 2001 2000 1999 1998 1997 1996
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Real world elasticities (144 countries) - Price elasticities and income elasticities of consumption classes (food and non-food) - Food share on household budget
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Net exports for 136 countries and 42 years The most user-friendly distribution of the main international database on GDP components (consumption, investment, public expenditure and net exports) for 136 countries and 42 years. Excellent for international comparisons, long-term growth enquiries and business cycle analysis, since it provides real values at constant prices comparable over time and countries.
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Inflation rates for 170 countries (1970-1996) Yearly dynamics of inflation is presented in one sheet. Is price stability a common feature of the world economies? Is hyperinflation a disease that hurts some groups of countries more than others? Discover the answers to these and many other questions just analysing the real data. World Oil Market and Oil Price Chronologies: 1970 - 2004
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Life expectancy and healthy life expectancy (HALE) (55 countries)
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Purchasing Power Parities (30 countries) 1980-2003 Data and use.
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Exports and their linkages to literacy An exploration of the manyfolds relations of exports and the growth of the number of people capable to write.
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Beyond comparative advantages: the role of innovation, income distribution and learning in building absolute advantage in international trade The composition of international trade, and thus the international division of labour, is determined by national differences in technological, organisational and financial capabilities rather than relative factor endowments. The existence of technology and income gaps across countries provides an important explanation of the difference between nations regarding the specialisation of international trade patterns. Trade at risk - a strategy for South Africa Precautionary, mitigation and adaptation measures for South Africa to trade collapse risk.
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Commodity-Dependent Developing Countries:
problems and perspectives 43 developing countries depends on just one agriculture commodity for more than 20% of their exports. Other countries are similarly dependent on just a handful of primary commodities. Long-term decline in prices, short term fluctuations, poverty: these issues should be taken in a stronger account by the entire world community.
Presentation by Luisa Rodriguez (South Centre) Other papers and presentations
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Interpersonal Networks in International Trade: Evidence on the Role of Immigrants in Promoting Exports from the American States The small worlds / social network theory - and the importance of Granovetter’s weak ties - are intriguingly connected to an important empirical problem: the relationship between emigrants and patterns in international trade.
Essay:
Assessing the employment effect of FDI
inflows to Egypt: Does the mode of entry matter? (2008)
Egypt has attempted to attract Foreign Direct Investments since 1974 and has offered generous incentives to achieve this target, motivated by low domestic savings rates accompanied by inefficient financial intermediation and the opportunity to benefit from the direct and indirect effects of FDI on increasing demand for labour. This is especially important given a chronic unemployment problem that the Egyptian economy suffers from. This paper extensively assess empirically the effect of FDI and argue about the importance of studying FDI at the most disaggregated possible level, since they are not homogeneous in their effects. Earlier
published at the Arab
Planning Institute as proceedings to the conference "“The
Unemployment Crisis in the Arab Countries”
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Main speeches at the Hong Kong WTO Ministerial Conference The draft text of the main document of the WTO ministerial conference (17 Dec. 2005) Shrinking gains from trade: A critical assessment of Doha round projections This overview of estimates of gains from trade liberalization is quite interesting on the state of the debate and the crisis of standard Walrasian models, although, in the background, there is some simplistic reasoning that seems to sound: Walrasian models do not demonstrate enough gain from liberalization, so let's change the models. Evaluating
the benefits from liberalization in agriculture: are standard Walrasian
models relevant? Liberalisation, preventing price stabilisation policies, results in more instability, and a decrease in welfare, as it is numerically demonstrated in both a partial equilibrium model of the world sugar industry and a GTAP-style general equilibrium model of the world economy. For more information about agriculture research and the authors' activities for Africa and other development areas, see the pages from CIRAD and CEPED. Agriculture: for a regulation of world trade placing development at the centre of WTO negotiations In many southern countries, the liberalization of agricultural trade has contributed to an increase in the proportion of imported food in comparison with local products. Food supplies, in particular for urban populations, is not longer provided by local producers but through import channels. Rural producers, deprived of these outlets, either migrate to the towns or are increasingly encouraged to specialize in export crops, thereby increasing small scale farmers’ dependence on the state of the world market. [...] many countries, not only in the North but also in the South, have been able to export products sold at very low price, taking advantage of productivity gains brought by intensive production methods and encouraged by production incentives, including subsidies under European and American agricultural policies, rice stabilization policies introduced in Thailand, and massive government spending on sugar and soya beans in Brazil. Not all countries have achieved such results though. Over half of the South’s family farming communities still use manual tools and animal draught power, and many developing countries generally cannot afford to apply incentive measures for their producers. The result is that work productivity varies from one group to the other, on average, in a ratio of 1 to 500. Out of an critical analysis of the impact of WTO regualations, a series of recommendations on the occasion of the 6th WTO Ministerial Conference, Hong Kong, 13-18 December 2005 has been issued by Coordination SUD (Solidarité - Urgence - Développement).
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You are an exporter Suitable for beginners and researchers. Download it now: essay and software
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EU productivity and competitiveness: can Europe resume the catching-up process with US? Country-level, industry-level and firm-level productivity in EU are compared with US and a policy for productivity catching-up is proposed.
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Technological developments and their effects on world trade: any implications for governments? Prof. Kibritcioglu summarizes several links between technological innovation (and imitation) and world trade, with a large spectrum of data matrices.
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An example of information set for the export manager Exporters
often approach new markets just by participating to trade fairs,
meeting there potential importers and building business relationships
with them by trial and error. But a systematic overview of
foreing markets can offer a more structured approach. In this report
by U.N. Bhati,
you'll find a good instance of what an export manager can find in
such documents to orient its actions and business plans. A Statistical Profile of Forest Product Market in South Korea [362 KB]
Japanese Foreign Aid, Development Expenditures and Taxation: econometric results from a bounded rationality model of fiscal behaviour A path-breaking methodology for assessing the behaviour of foreign aid receivers. Investment in human and physical capital has been a significant factor in Malaysian GDP growth. Both internal and external sources of finance have been used in promoting investments as well as development expenditures. But foreign aid could have been used, by a bounded rational bureaucratic policymaker, in many different ways, not all conducive to development. |
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Country concentration of Turkish exports and imports over time Through international trade, countries develop their own net of privileged partners. Turkey is an extremely interesting example of a fast changing developing country. In this paper, Prof. Güzin Erlat shows not only data analysis but also a methodology to address the issue of concentration and diversification of exports. The Product Cycle Theory of international trade is given further data support.
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Intra-regional trade in South Africa Development Community A gravity model is used to assess trade potential around South Africa and contrasted with the author's own estimates of intra-regional trade. The model examines how the reduction of trade transaction costs, the level of development and the size of an economy influences trade potential amongst countries.
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The unofficial history of UNCTAD Reinventing UNCTAD In the dialectics among international organization as WTO, World Bank, ILO, etc. UNCTAD could find a new role. Essay from the South Centre
Innovation and competitiveness: trends in unit prices in global trade An evolutionary economics approach to an important issue of world trade. Evolution in the "terms of trade" and its impact on developing countries (2005)
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Determinants of Exports and Investment of Manufacturing Firms in Tanzania Findings from a survey of 83 firms. |
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Exports, FDI, and Productivity: Dynamic Evidence from Japanese Firms (2006) Using an extraordinarily rich longitudinal panel data on Japanese firms, it is found that the most productive firms engage in exports and foreign direct investment, medium productive firms engage in either exports or foreign direct investment, and the least productive firms focus only on the domestic market. Moreover, exports and foreign direct investment appear to improve firm productivity once the productivity convergence effect is controlled for.
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Trade and labour mobility: an empirical enquiry with micro-data Rising out of a number of empirical studies linking measures of labour-market adjustment to trade patterns, this research has focused on industry-level measures and determinants of adjustment and employed individual-level data on manufacturing employees in the United Kingdom to construct “distance” measures of worker moves across industries and occupations.
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Changing Structure of Global Food Consumption and Trade Shifts in food consumption have led to increased trade and changes in the composition of world agricultural trade. Given different diets, food expenditure and food budget responses to income and price changes vary between developing and developed countries. In developing countries, higher income results in increased demand for meat products, often leading to increased import of live-stock feed. |
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