Trade Liberalization and the Internal Geography of Countries
Author : Matthieu Crozet
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Page : 23 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2002
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Author : Matthieu Crozet
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Page : 23 pages
File Size : 50,33 MB
Release : 2002
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Author : Jože Pavlič Damijan
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 30,5 MB
Release : 2008
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ISBN : 9789616543606
Author : Omar Awapara
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 13,17 MB
Release : 2023
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ISBN : 9783031234224
This book answers why anti-trade forces in developing countries sometimes fail to effectively exert pressure on their governments. The backlash against globalization spread across several Latin American countries in the 2000s, yet a few countries such as Peru doubled down on their bets on free trade by signing bilateral agreements with the US and the EU. This study uses evidence from three Latin American countries (Peru, Argentina, and Bolivia) to suggest that geography can play a significant role in shaping trade preferences and undermining the formation and clout of distributional coalitions that seek protectionism. Because trade liberalization can have uneven distributional impacts along regional lines, trade liberalization losers can find themselves in unfavorable conditions to associate and engage in collective action. Under these circumstances, few coalitions emerge to battle for protection in the policy arena, and when they do, geographic distance from decision-makers in the capital city can be a significant barrier to realizing their interests. As a result, even where a majority of the population living in regions that have not benefitted from trade elect a leftist president, trade reform reversal will not occur unless protectionist interests are close to the capital city. The contrast between Peru, on one side, and Argentina and Bolivia, on the other, highlights the powerful influence geography can have on reversing trade policy or preserving the status quo. Omar Awapara is Director of Political Science at UPC (Universidad Peruana de Ciencias Aplicadas) and Global Instructor at the University of Arizona, the USA.
Author : Kashif S. Mansori
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Page : 0 pages
File Size : 17,86 MB
Release : 2003
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This paper develops a model of economic geography that examines how the distribution of economic activity may change as a country opens up to foreign trade. The distinctive features of the model are that transportation is costly between locations within a nation as well as between nations, and that these transportation costs are subject to increasing returns to scale. A result of the model is that trade liberalization may cause the population of a country to become more concentrated in a single megalopolis. The large megalopolis may reduce welfare due to congestion costs, which implies that liberalization may unexpectedly leave the country worse off.
Author : Jože Pavlič Damijan
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Page : 41 pages
File Size : 47,53 MB
Release : 2008
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Author : Pedro Moncarz
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Page : pages
File Size : 18,81 MB
Release : 2007
Category : International trade
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Author : Michael Michaely
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 300 pages
File Size : 35,20 MB
Release : 2009-08-07
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9814470570
Trade liberalization is arguably a major issue in the conduct of commercial policy. As a component of it, the relationship between universal, multilateral trade liberalization and the conclusion of preferential trade agreements — that is, a process of liberalization which discriminates between trading partners — has been a focus of analysis and debate. This book is designed to enhance understanding of the salient elements of these issues.The book searches for answers to significant questions that have not been raised before, and elaborates those discussed earlier in the literature but not yet settled. Some parts of the book are purely analytical, while others focus on general principles and comprehension of concrete instances and developments. The book formulates a variety of new methods, including the construction of new instruments of measurement, to enable both ex-ante predictions and ex-post assessments of the impact of liberalization and trade preferences. The revised edition incorporates the outcome of two important studies, exploring the impact of liberalization on trade structure and the pattern of regional trade relationships.
Author : Urszula Żuławska
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Page : 18 pages
File Size : 49,20 MB
Release : 1995
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Author : Jean Louis Mucchielli
Publisher : Edward Elgar Publishing
Page : 254 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2004-01-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9781845420628
The choice of location for the production plants of multinational firms is an important issue, not least because this decision is accompanied by so many fears brought into public debate. This book analyses how foreign direct investors choose their locations, whilst exploring the forces which shape international economic geography. Although these two issues are, to some extent, inter-related, researchers have only recently acknowledged the similarity of economic geography and international business approaches to the empirical assessment of likely causes of the degree of spatial concentration observed in many modern industries. Giving insight into the direction that future research should take, this book contains state-of-the-art papers on both theoretical and empirical levels. This original collection makes a particularly important contribution to our understanding of the existence and impact of home market effects. Introducing a welcome synthesis between two related and yet rarely integrated areas of study using case studies of firms in Europe, US MNEs and the Mexican automobile industry, this book will be welcomed by both academic and practising economists. Regional scientists and.
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Page : 526 pages
File Size : 20,35 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
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