Category Archives: International Economics

ANALYSIS OF MACROECONOMIC DETERMINANTS OF EXCHANGE RATE VOLATILITY IN INDIA

Posted on May 21, 2013 by Sriram

by Anita Mirchandani International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Vol. 3, No. 1, 2013, pp.172-179 The Foreign Exchange Market in India has undergone substantial changes over last decade. It is imperative by the excessive volatility of Indian Rupee causing … Continue reading →

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Trade Liberalization and Fight Against Poverty

Posted on May 10, 2013 by Sriram

by Mohamed Ali Trabelsi and Naoufel Liouane International Journal of Economics and Financial Issues, Vol. 3, No. 2, 2013,  pp.370-375 The struggle against poverty and social inequality is one of the biggest challenges for developing countries. These countries should adapt themselves to a new economic world order characterized by … Continue reading →

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Economic Integration, Location of Industries, and Frontier Regions: Evidence from Cambodia

Posted on March 26, 2013 by Anitha

KUROIWA Ikuo, TSUBOTA Kenme Discussion Papers No.399 We examine changes in the location of economic activity in Cambodia between 1998 and 2008 in terms of employment growth. During this period, Cambodia joined ASEAN and increased trade with neighboring countries. Drawing … Continue reading →

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International Trade In Services: New Trends and Opportunities for Developing Countries

Posted on March 22, 2013 by Sriram

Editors: Olivier Cattaneo, Michael Engman,Sebastián Sáez, and Robert M. Stern The World Bank [2011] The services sector is key to economic growth, competitiveness, and poverty alleviation. Comprising more than two-thirds of the world economy, services are now commonly traded across … Continue reading →

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Foreign Direct Investment and Urban Infrastructure An Evidence from Southern Asia

Posted on March 19, 2013 by Sriram

by Mehdi Behname Advances in Management & Applied Economics, vol.2, no.4, 2012, 253-259 This paper applies the panel data model for estimation of the parameters for southern Asia countries. Before proceeding to estimate panel data, we carry out unit root tests to … Continue reading →

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Exchange Rate Pass-Through in the Global Economy

Posted on March 15, 2013 by Sriram

by Matthieu Bussière, Simona Delle Chiaie, and Tuomas A. Peltonen. Bank of France WP No. 424 [Feb 2013] This paper estimates export and import price equations for 40 countries – including 19 emerging market economies (EMEs) – and aims to understand … Continue reading →

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China’s long-term relations with Southeast Asia: Beyond the pivot

Posted on March 7, 2013 by Sriram

R. James Ferguson. Culture Mandala: Bulletin of the Centre for East-West Cultural and Economic Studies, Vol. 10, No. 1, December 2012, pp5-20. Early China’s southward expansion over two millennia from its core zone north of the Yangtze River allowed it … Continue reading →

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Enabling Trade: Valuing Growth Opportunities

Posted on February 25, 2013 by Sriram

World Economic Forum, 2013 “Enabling Trade: Valuing Growth Opportunities” finds that reducing supply chain barriers can increase global GDP up to 6 times more than removing all import tariffs.  Such large increases in GDP would be associated with positive effects … Continue reading →

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Navigating a Changing World Economy: ASEAN, the People’s Republic of China, and India

Posted on February 14, 2013 by Sriram

by Peter A. Petri and Fan Zhai ADBI Working Paper No. 404 (Jan 2013) Most projections envision continued rapid growth in the members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the People’s Republic of China (PRC), and India (collectively, … Continue reading →

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Trends in developing country trade 1980-2010

Posted on February 8, 2013 by Sriram

by Constantine Michalopoulos and Francis Ng WB Policy Research Working Paper 6334 (Jan 2013) This paper reviews trends and patterns in developing countries’trade from 1980 to 2010. During the 30-year span, world trade expanded rapidly, especially in developing countries in … Continue reading →

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