Despite structural limitations in the Bangladesh economy, the export sector performed well throughout the 1990s. The export growth rate of Bangladesh was higher than that of the world and the SAARC countries. However, the balance of trade of Bangladesh was always in deficit and the trade deficit with India is huge. The export share of primary commodities has decreased while that of manufactured...

This paper confronts exchange rate-trade balance hypotheses derived from the elasticity, absorption/switching and monetary approaches to the balance of payments and short-run disequilibrium effects such as the J and S curves with data from a wide range of developing countries. We find strong evidence that the exchange rate affects the trade balance long-run equilibrium even when money and incom...

This article extends the notion of context effects beyond the relational properties of choice alternatives to include attribute balance as a reason for choice. The data reported in two experiments demonstrate that attribute balance has a significant impact on extremeness-aversion and trade-off-contrast effects reported in prior research. The proposition that consumers use attribute balance as a...

The primary goal of any economic policy in the production front is, as far as possible to enhance the degree of sectoral interrelatedness (henceforh SI) within the home economy. The focal objective of such policy is not only to increase the sectoral value added of the economy but also to improve the position of the trade balance in the commodity trade front. Iran, being characterized a sole mon...

from the perspective of the states that their foreign policy is based on geo-economy, the economy is the most important mechanism of influence in target areas. therefore, with the strengthening of trade relations would be in an appropriate level to increase the mutual relations.  after the independence of central eurasian states, geographical - political events of central eurasia led to the cre...