International Trade and the Economies of Developing Countries

Effect of Global Financial Crisis on International Trade in Developed and Developing Countries

The recent global crisis, as a big crash ( Baldwin and Simon , 2009), has reduced foreign demand growth affecting total countries’ exports. Given the importance of foreign trade to nations and the reality that recent crisis has affected international trade we study the effects of the global financial crisis on trade relations between countries by using Ma and Cheng (2003) approach and by appl...

The Effects of Learning and Scale Economies in Health Sector: Case of Developed and Developing Countries

The quality and quantity of human capital are the most important factors in economic growth and its expansion depends on the educational and health infrastructure of countries. The education sector promotes the technical knowledge and skills of the human resources and the health sector provides its health; In addition, the quality of health services in turn is affected by education. Also, Learn...

Unequal Exchange: Developing Countries in the International Trade Negotiations

Spatial Disparities in Developing Countries: Cities, Regions and International Trade

Spatial inequality in developing countries is due to the natural advantages of some regions relative to others and to the presence of agglomeration forces, leading to clustering of activity. This paper reviews and develops some simple models that capture these first and second nature economic geographies. The presence of increasing returns to scale in cities leads to urban structures that are n...

Emerging International Trade Regime : Challenges before Developing Countries

The Uruguay Round Agreements and the establishment of the World Trade Organisation (WTO) in 1995 resulted in a major step forward by bringing the agriculture and services sectors under the disciplines of GATT, bringing down the levels of tariffs and putting in place a dispute settlement mechanism. In order to realise the potential gains from trade, developing countries made substantial progress...