540 research outputs found
How integrated is SADC ? trends in intra-regional and extra-regional trade flows and policy
No full textDo Southern African Development Community countries trade enough with each other and with the rest of the world? Although its share of world trade has fallen, appropriate benchmarking shows that, controlling for gross domestic product and other characteristics, Southern African Development Community countries have experienced an increase in openness that is comparable to other developing countries. Once market size and geography are taken into account, trade between Southern African Development Community countries is actually high. Southern African Development Community countries also trade more products with each other than they do with the rest of the world. In this sense, and contrary to stylized fears, the Southern African Development Community region is quite integrated. Although the Southern African Development Community has reduced its tariffs, the structure remains complex and could be lowered on intermediates. Other impediments make it costly and difficult to move goods, but are at levels that are comparable with countries at similar levels of development. Although this may be surprising, there is still scope for improvement and the disadvantageous geography of the Southern African Development Community makes it important for other trade impediments to be reduced.Free Trade,Environmental Economics&Policies,Economic Theory&Research,Trade Policy,Trade Law
Logistics and Exports
No full textDrawing on a new and comprehensive measure of logistics quality, our gravity model suggests logistics in the exporting and partner-country can have an important impact on bilateral exports. A one standard deviation improvement in the exporter’s logistics quality, which for example would improve Gabon to the level of Guinea, would raise exports by almost 60%. Landlocked countries’ exports depend on their neighbours’ logistics, but their own logistics quality is not as important as for other countries. We also find that logistics act to reduce the trade effects of distance, but without eliminating them.Logistics, exports, gravity models
Adio Kerida (Goodbye Dear Love) , Film Screening and Discussion with Director and Author Ruth Behar
No full textThis flyer promotes the event Adio Kerida (Goodbye Dear Love) Film Screening and Discussion with Director and Author Ruth Behar hosted by the Cuban Research Institute.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/1022/thumbnail.jp
Work on Long-term Trends and Uncertainties at the IMF
No full textAs is the case with many other organizations, the International Monetary Fund (IMF) has been using scenario planning (SP) as part of its foresight work, known inside the building as ‘Long-term Trends and Uncertainties’ (LTU). In this article Alberto Behar and Kristina Kostial, both working for the IMF, and Rafael Ramirez, Professor at the University of Oxford, who advised the IMF in this work, explain why and how this is done and provide some insights on how this type of foresight work has helped the IMF in doing its work
Objects That Matter: Bodies, Art, and Big Data
No full textKatherine Behar’s videos, performances, interactive installations, and writings explore gender and labor in digital culture. Associate Professor of New Media Arts at Baruch College, CUNY, Behar is the editor of Object-Oriented Feminism (University of Minnesota Press, 2016), author of Bigger than You: Big Data and Obesity (punctum books, 2016), and coeditor (with Emmy Mikelson) of And Another Thing: Nonanthropocentrism and Art (punctum books, 2016). We would like to thank Prof. Behar for her generosity and intellect
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Behar was the founder and director of the Jewish National Troupe, a successful amateur theater group, in Istanbul. Leon Behar came to Seattle, Washington in 1920 with his wife, Rebecca Behar (b. 1903).In 1922, Leon Behar directed Dreyfus for Congregation Ezra Bessaroth’s fundraiser for Sephardic Talmud Torah of Seattle.Most of Behar’s plays were produced as synagogue fundraisers in the Washington Hall building at 14th Avenue and East First.His acting troupe was known as the amateur Sephardic Drama Group.
This play tells the story of Alfred Dreyfus, a French military officer who was arrested for treason in France because of rising antisemitism in the 1890s.1 pageAdvertisement
Lucky Broken Girl : Book Presentation by Author Ruth Behar | Comments by Richard Blanco
No full textIn this unforgettable multicultural comlng-of-age narrative—based on the author\u27s childhood In the 1960s—a young Cuban-Jewlsh Immigrant girl Is adjusting to her new life In New York City when her American dream Is suddenly derailed. Ruthle\u27s plight will Intrigue readers, and her powerful story of strength and resilience, full of color, light, and poignancy, will stay with them for a long time.
Ruthle Mizrahi and her family recently emigrated from Castro\u27s Cuba to New York City. Just when she\u27s finally beginning to gain confidence in her mastery of English—and enjoying her reign as her neighborhood\u27s hopscotch queen—a horrific car accident leaves her in a body cast and confined her to her bed for a long recovery. As Ruthie\u27s world shrinks because of her inability to move, her powers of observation and her heart grow larger and she comes to understand how fragile life is, how vulnerable we all are as human beings, and how friends, neighbors, and the power of the arts can sweeten even the worst of times.https://digitalcommons.fiu.edu/cri_events/1374/thumbnail.jp
Do managers and experts agree? A comparison of alternative sources of trade facilitation data
No full textThis paper constructs country-level aggregates of trade facilitation measures from firm-level responses in the Enterprise Surveys and compares them with the Doind Business indicators, the Logistics Performance Index and the Enabling Trade Index. Correlations between the data sources are low even for very specific and simlar questions. We also us the Enterprise Surveys to distinguisj between within-country inter-firm varaiation and between-country variation, finding that the latter acccounts for only a quarter of the total. for the purposes of identifying where reform is needed and estimating the relationship between trade facilitation and exports, these findings rasie the issue of which form of variation is more informative and which data source is more reliable.
Waiting for the Esquimo: an historical and documentary study of the Cooch Behar enclaves of India and Bangladesh
No full textDeposited with permission of the author. © 2002 Dr. Brendan R. WhyteEnclaves are defined as a fragment of one country totally surrounded by one other. A list of the world’s current enclaves and a review of the literature about them reveals a geographical bias that has left enclaves outside western Europe almost untouched. This bias is particularly noticeable in the almost complete absence of information on the Cooch Behar enclaves, along Bangladesh’s northern border with India. The Cooch Behar enclaves number almost 200. This total includes about two dozen counter-enclaves (enclaves within enclaves), and the world’s only counter-counter-enclave. Together, these enclaves represent 80% of the total number of enclaves existing in the world since the 1950s, and have been at the centre of Indo-East Pakistani and then Indo-Bangladeshi boundary disputes since Cooch Behar acceded to India in 1949. (For complete abstract open document
WOULD CHEAPER CAPITAL REPLACE LABOUR?
No full textLeft-leaning members of the ruling alliance should be careful what they wish for. By estimating elasticities of substitution and factor demand between capital and four labour types, we find microeconomic evidence that cheaper capital would reduce demand for labour. While capital and all occupations are substitutes, many but not all occupations are themselves complements. These results allow for endogenous changes in output and apply to the vast majority of firms in our sample. Copyright (c) 2010 The Author. Journal compilation (c) 2010 Economic Society of South Africa.
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