The paper investigates the FDI-trade relationship, and tests empirically (in a cross-country EU setting) the key determinants of the export intensity of multinational (MNE) subsidiaries. The central focus is the link between the strategic roles and characteristics of MNE subsidiaries, and their export patterns. Expectations about high export intensities of rationalized manufacturers and product...

the dependence of iran's economy to oil revenues and affecting the political and economic issues on income have caused the vulnerability of the economy. one way to meet these challenges is expanding such products, on the one hand improving the domestic economy and on the other hand increasing the exports. among the agricultural products, medicinal plants have a special role in the domestic...

Border Gateway Protocol allows Autonomous Systems (ASs) to apply diverse routing policies for selecting routes and for propagating reachability information to other ASs. Although a significant number of studies have been focused on the Internet topology, little is known about what routing policies network operators employ to configure their networks. In this paper, we infer and characterize rou...

The objective of this study is to see the impacts of economic reforms and trade liberalisation policies on agricultural export performance of Pakistan. The major purpose is to examine the effects of both domestic supply-side factors and world demand on agricultural export performance. Four indicators of economic reforms and trade liberalisation policies are considered namely competitiveness, di...

T his study examines the impact of non-oil export demand on economic performance in Nigeria using annual time series data between 1975 and 2013. The study tests for the unit root and co-integration to determine the time series properties of our variables before using Vector Error Correction (VEC) model for both short- and long- run estimates and possible policy inferences. The result...

The lack of a clear link between general economic fundamentals and export diversification indicators in the literature has fueled believe that industrial policies are an absolute requisite to diversify exports. This paper, however, does find strong statistical connection horizontal by making two novel changes traditional methodologies: using categories lead (for example, manufactures) as depend...

macroeconomic policies lead to changes in farming system. these changes are accompanied by some most prominent factors that affect soil erosion. change in relative prices and its impact on soil erosion, via induced changes in crop patterns and agricultural practices, are related to policies implemented. one of the major goals of the present study is to emphasize on the flow of trade policies in...

While there is an increasing realization of the potential that IT offers for human welfare, IT-induced productivity and growth are confined to the developed world. It is argued that even though the international digital divide is a reality, there are certain specific characteristics of the new technology that leave scope for mitigating, if not totally bridging, the gap when appropriate policies...