In the presence of sunk costs to exporting, preferential tariff liberalization may have a prolonged, dynamic effect on the pattern of a beneficiary country’s exports. In particular, when preferential market access helps overcome product specific fixed costs to exporting, preferential tariff liberalization might trigger a geographic spread of exports to third markets outside the preferential tra...

...................................................................................... 5 Introduction ...................................................................................... 7 I. Technological structure of manufactured exports....... 11 II. World trade patterns............................................................. 17 III .Regional distribution of developing world exports.....

Temporal index decomposition analysis and spatial index decomposition analysis were applied to understand the driving forces of the emissions embodied in China's exports and net exports during 2002-2011, respectively. The accumulated emissions embodied in exports accounted for approximately 30% of the total emissions in China; although the contribution of the sectoral total emissions intensity ...

Exports have become an increasingly important source of revenue for both national and regional firms in the United States. U.S. exports are rising rapidly, especially from the Midwest. As a result, national and district firms must be ever more attentive to changes in U.S. export markets. One such change is the rapid growth of U.S. export markets in the developing nations of East Asia and Latin ...

Uutilizing unit root and cointegration techniques, we find out of 96 countries only 8 show unidirectional or bidirectional causality from exports to GDP with positive relationship between the two variables. Causality from GDP to Exports with positive relationship between the two variables is found for only 9 countries.

Assessment of export opportunities for softwood products from the North has been hampered by a lack of information describing foreign sales from the region. This article describes the value and volume of softwood products exported from the northern United States for 1980 through 1985. Roundwood productsmostly spruce logs from Maine and Vermont -are the largest northern softwood export. Canada, ...

Virtual reality is an emerging computer visualization technology which allows educators to place their students into instructional environments heretofore difficult or impossible to achieve. In order to take full advantage of this technology, a virtual environment, "Virtual Water", is being developed. Virtual reality has been recently employed in a few educational applications, but the project ...

India was largely insulated from the world trading system for more than four decades after independence in 1947. Pursuit of an inward-oriented development strategy, rationalized both by a wary, almost hostile, attitude towards foreign trade, technology and investment, and by pessimism about export markets, inevitably led to India becoming marginalized in world trade. During the period of rapid ...

The great challenge of the agricultural sector is to produce more crop from less water, which can be achieved by increasing crop water productivity. The modernization of the irrigation systems offers a number of possibilities to expand the economic productivity of water and improve the virtual water status. The objective of the present study is to assess the global water productivity (GWP) with...