One of the primary benefits of international trade in a low-income context is the presumed ability, through trade, to access higher levels of technology through imports. Despite this, very little research has been done on international trade in a low-income (as opposed to middle-income) context, and even less concretely exploring the role of imports, largely because of the paucity of data avail...

It is known that rich households purchase goods of higher prices and quality than the poor ones. In this paper, we show that this difference is systematically related to the variation in access to imports across states within the U.S. Specifically, we investigate to what degree imports affect the differences in prices of durables purchased by households across income distribution. Our identific...

China has witnessed rapid increases in the skill premium over last few decades. In this paper, we study short-run effect of capital goods imports on China. The surge imports, which embody advanced technology, can explain rising demand for We exploit regional variations import exposure stemming from initial differences structure and instrument growth using exchange rate movements. A city at 75th...

Purpose: Based on its various uses, it produces a high level of consumption soybeans, but this is not balanced with sufficient domestic production. The increasing population Indonesia, further increases the soybean consumption. prospects for development are very good considering that demand continues to increase as increases. growth in over past 34 years quite high, line and soybean-based food ...

This article pursues two tasks. The first is to clarify the value and productivity of Williams’s Keywords: a vocabulary culture society (first edition 1976, second expanded 1983a) for project Cultural Studies. clarification helped, I argue, by reading it alongside Vološinov’s Marxism philosophy language (published in Russian 1929, translated into English 1973). related task speculative developm...

I n his 1952 A Geometry of International Trade, Nobel Laureate James Meade presented the definitive modern version of the celebrated reciprocaldemand, or offer-curve, diagram of the trade theorist. The diagram features curves depicting alternative quantities of exports and imports countries are willing to trade at all possible prices (see Figure 1). Let two countries, home and foreign, trade tw...