Notes on unequal exchange between developing and industrialised countries

Unequal Exchange: Developing Countries in the International Trade Negotiations

Rural employment in industrialised countries

This paper assesses the recent changes in rural employment in the OECD countries, highlighting the growing role of employment in services and, in some cases, manufacturing activity. In many, but not all, rural areas the secular decline in agricultural employment has been more than counterbalanced by growing employment in these other sectors. However, the diversity of employment growth within an...

The impact of exchange rate on economic growth under different exchange rate regimes (in selected countries developed and developing)

This paper examines the role of different exchange rate regimes on relationship between  exchange rate volatility and economic growth. To investigate this relationship, information of 53 countries with floating and fixed exchange rate regimes in the period of 1987-2016 are considered. GARCH technique is used to estimate exchange rate volatility and Difference GMM technique for estimating the mo...

Humanitarianism and Unequal Exchange

This article examines the relationship between humanitarian aid and ecologically unequal exchange in the context of post-disaster reconstruction. I assess the manner in which humanitarian aid became a central part of the reconstruction process in India's Tamil Nadu state following the devastating 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. This article focuses on how the humanitarian “gift” of housing became a ...

The Study of Differences between E-commerce Impacts on Developed Countries and Developing Countries, Case Study: USA and Iran

This study determines the impact of E-commerce (EC) on some of important economic criteria including total factor productivity( TFP) of Iran country as a developing country in comparison with US standard as a developed country through analyzing and calculating interrelated issues. The model is based on both econometrics and growth accounting approach to fill the gaps of previous studies. On the...