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Wiley is a founding member of the UN-backed HINARI, AGORA, and OARE initiatives.They are now collectively known as Research4Life, making online scientific content available free or at nominal cost to researchers in developing countries and…
View article: Leveraging Trade for More and Better Job Opportunities in Developing Countries: A Framework for Policy
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Trade and labor markets are intimately connected. This connection presents governments with a dual economic challenge that cannot be resolved without social compromise: maximizing aggregate gains but minimizing disaggregated costs, which c…
View article: Regional integration and services in African value chains: Retrospect and prospect
Regional integration and services in African value chains: Retrospect and prospect Open
This article takes a first step towards understanding the quantitative evidence on the role of services in African value chains. The available data are largely based on assumptions and modelled estimates, but can nonetheless provide some u…
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View article: Connecting to Compete 2023: Trade Logistics in an Uncertain Global Economy - The Logistics Performance Index and Its Indicators
Connecting to Compete 2023: Trade Logistics in an Uncertain Global Economy - The Logistics Performance Index and Its Indicators Open
This seventh edition of Connecting to Compete comes as disruptions of global value chains have revealed the crucial importance of logistics systems. Because of these disruptions, supply chain resilience and its national security implicatio…
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AGORA, and OARE initiatives.They are now collectively known as Research4Life, making online scientific content available
View article: Unlocking the Potential of Digital Services Trade in Asia and the Pacific
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This book explains how rapid digitalization during COVID-19 has accelerated the growth of digital services trade in Asia and the Pacific, and provides analysis on the opportunities, challenges, and associated risks. It explores evolving tr…
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paper use, establishing a vendor code of ethics, and engaging our colleagues and other stakeholders in our efforts.
View article: High Field Magnet Development for HEP in Europe: A Proposal from LDG HFM Expert Panel
High Field Magnet Development for HEP in Europe: A Proposal from LDG HFM Expert Panel Open
The European Laboratory Directors Group (LDG) was mandated by CERN Council in 2021 to oversee the development of an Accelerator R&D Roadmap. To this end, a set of expert panels was convened, covering the five broad areas of accelerator R&D…
View article: Services Trade of Commonwealth Member Countries: Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic
Services Trade of Commonwealth Member Countries: Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic Open
In most Commonwealth member countries, services account for at least half of total economic activity in terms of gross domestic product. Levels are particularly high in high-income countries but also in some small island states, where acti…
View article: Bias and consistency in three-way gravity models
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We study the incidental parameter problem for the "three-way" Poisson Pseudo-Maximum Likelihood ("PPML") estimator recently recommended for identifying the effects of trade policies and in other panel data gravity settings. Despite the num…
View article: Regional Trade Agreements and Trade Costs in Services
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This paper analyses the relationship between regional trade integration and trade costs in servicesindustries. The empirical analysis relies, on the one hand, on a dataset of theory-consistentbilateral trade costs calculated for 61 countri…
View article: Services Trade Policies and Economic Integration: New Evidence for Developing Countries
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This paper applies machine learning to recreate to a high degree of accuracy the OECD's Services Trade Restrictiveness Index (STRI) to provide quantitative evidence on the restrictiveness of services policies in 2016 for a sample of develo…
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View article: Services Policies and Manufacturing Exports
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This paper uses a structural gravity model to show the effects of services policies on manufacturing exports. Whereas the previous literature has focused on indirect effects of policies—flowing through productivity effects in domestic se…
View article: Trade Costs, Time, and Supply Chain Reliability
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View article: Infrastructure, trade facilitation, and network connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa☆,☆☆
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This paper uses new measures of value added in exports in two sectors (textiles and clothing, and agriculture) to examine the linkages between trade facilitation and infrastructure on the one hand, and value chain participation on the othe…
View article: Value Chains and Connectivity in Sub-Saharan Africa
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This paper examines global value chain (GVC) activity in Sub-Saharan Africa, through the lens of newly assembled data on value added trade. It finds that GVC participation is quite weak by world standards. Although there are emerging intra…