...Caroline Freund; Martha Denisse Pierola Abstract Export superstars are important for export growth and diversification and are typically born large. Firm-level data on manufacturing trade from 32 developing countries show that the top five exporters account for on average nearly one-third...

... Tourism Shipping trade adjustment export growth price rigidity firm size gross domestic product In 2009 it became clear that the Greek economy was facing very serious challenges arising from the country’s “twin deficits”: both the budget of the Greek government and the current account (essentially...

... Warner A Anderson John Deardorff Alan V Eaton I Kortum S Redding Stephen Venables Anthony J International trade models of Foreign direct investment FDI concepts of Export growth decompositions Foreign market access FMA regional Regional trade determinants of Trade as election issue Amjadi...

... University. At the time of writing this chapter, Sajjid Chinoy was a doctoral student in the department of economics at Stanford University. This chapter reports a brief overview of Indian economic policies and development over the period since independence. Indian export growth was dull when the world...

... performances are explored to be able to forecast their future trend in export growth. Labor intensive goods Multifiber Agreement MFA Association of South East Asian Nations ASEAN Uruguay round Free Trade Area FTA Forecast Revealed comparative advantage RCA EC market General Agreement on Tariffs...

...This chapter examines the dimensions and characteristics of foreign direct investment (FDI) into South Africa since its democratization in 1994. It then assesses its impact on the economy with respect to indicators such as export growth, employment and technological upgrading. It shows...

... and commodity prices. The most dynamic sub-sectors in terms of output growth, export growth, production innovation, and product diversity are food products, plastic and rubber, chemicals, basic metal work, and non-metallic mineral products. References Bagachwa, M. S. D ., Mbelle, A. V. Y...

... electronics technologies made a negligible short-term contribution to the national mission of industrial recovery and export growth, electrical goods companies joined in an orgy of product and process technology acquisitions in order to bring the latest communications products to Japan. However, the chapter...

...To evaluate NICs' success with respect to product and market choices, this chapter traces the sources of their export growth. The rapid penetration of NIC manufactures in the OECD import markets, especially in the U.S. and Japanese markets is examined including the possible reasons...

...; the effect of these institutions on export growth was particularly magnified under monetary union. central banks Maastricht conditionality wage growth Balassa Samuelson effect exposed sectors sheltered sectors Ireland Italy scala mobile central bank independence CBI Cukierman Alex legal central...

...This chapter examines the strategies for export growth and the role of TV franchises and formats in extending audio-visual markets. It begins with a discussion on some of the inherent problems within the political economy of media tradition when it is applied to East Asia, and offers new ways...

... different and a far more successful path. Hong Kong and Singapore welcomed foreign private capital, and this helped propel their rapid industrialization, export growth, and increase in standards of living. Taiwan and South Korea adopted state-guided industrial policy and restricted the role of foreign...

...Before social unrest shook the region in the 1970s, Central America experienced more than a decade of rapid export growth by adding cotton and beef to the traditional coffee and bananas. This book shows how the rapid growth contributed to the present social and political crisis, examines the causes...