Technology spillover from trade channel is important. Absorbing foreign technology by the channel of importation and using the latent technology in those products create export development, increase the quality and quantity of manufactured goods, and modify management, technology improvements and production of goods with high added value; this might favorise optimal allocation of resources. Imp...

Indonesia's export-import activities in recent years, the value of exports and imports has decreased due to global conditions. The problems that occur are uncertainty complexity estimating international trade oil gas non-oil sectors, dependence on just one or a few markets, problem unfair competition, competition between business actors can reduce prices. is influenced by several external facto...

Oil crops are one of the most valuable traded agricultural commodities and are probably worth over $100 billion/yr. The current volume of traded vegetable oils is over 70 Mt per year and is predicted to increased to over 100 Mt per year by the year 2010 (Murphy 1996). This is probably a considerable underestimate of the total volume of oil production since, particularly in developing countries,...

With the increasing economic importance of the Asia-Pacific Region, the economic interdependence among countries in the region has gradually enhanced. With the continuous opening up of the two countries, Sino-Vietnamese economic relations have also been deepened. However, the export trade between Vietnam and China has been competitive. China and Vietnam seek to dominate or join an agreement tha...

Russia–Ukraine war has increased systemic vulnerabilities of the global economy. Therefore, purpose this study is to identify economic implications Russian-Ukrainian (2022) on prices strategic commodities. Strategic commodities were divided into three main types: energy commodities, food and mining According World Bank reports, monthly data from M05/2021 M05/2022 been used. In addition, a compa...

We consider two types of path selection problems for arc capacitated network. Given an arc capacitated network and a set of commodities, one problem is to find a subset of commodities to be routed and an assignment of them to the paths so that profit is maximized. The other problem is to route all given commodities in the network so that cost is minimized. Bifurcation of flow is not allowed in ...

We examine two important aspects of Australia’s terms of trade using 135 years of annual data up to 2003/04. Since Australia predominantly exports commodities and imports manufactures, the Prebisch-Singer hypothesis suggests that there should be a negative trend in the terms of trade. But the trend is no more than −0.1 per cent per annum, less than the trend decline in world commodity prices re...

The Brazilian Amazon has undergone a great transformation of its economy since the end of the 1990s, when the price of its export-oriented commodities increased in more than 200% in a few years. However, counties in the region experienced the effects of this soaring price differently according to their access to a federal road system constructed in the early 1970s. I take advantage of this inst...