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"Assessing the performance of offshore firms in Tunisia" published in Journal of Economic Integration

11 November 2019

This paper examines the performance of offshore firms in Tunisia for the period 2002~2014. Using firm-level data, we analyze the impact of offshoring on turnover, productivity, wages and firm survival. Overall, offshore firms perform better with respect t ...

"Assessing the performance of offshore firms in Tunisia" published in Journal of Economic Integration

11 November 2019

This paper examines the performance of offshore firms in Tunisia for the period 2002~2014. Using firm-level data, we analyze the impact of offshoring on turnover, productivity, wages and firm survival. Overall, offshore firms perform better with respect t ...

"Migration, Trade and Investment", in Women Shaping Global Economic Governance, Edited by Arancha Gonzalez

11 November 2019

Remittance flows to low- and middle-income countries (LMICs) reached $466 billion in 2017, an amount which is three times the size of official development and is larger than foreign direct investment (FDI) for all LMICs excluding China (World Bank 2018). ...

MSMES and services trade: A pathway to inclusive growth in developing economies

15 October 2019

WTO Chairholder Prof.Wilma Viviers from North-West University and her colleagues write an opinion piece in the World Trade Report of 2019 titled "MSMES and services trade: A pathway to inclusive growth in developing economies?". Introduction: Th ...

The Effect of Trade Openness on Exchange Rate: A Meta-regression Analysis

9 October 2019

Trade openness remains one of the key drivers of exchange rate fluctuations in both the long-run and short-run. The relationship between trade openness and exchange rate has long been explained in many theoretical and empirical studies. Nevertheless, in t ...

Tourism and Economic Growth: A Meta-regression Analysis

27 September 2019

Numerous studies have focused on delineating the relationship between tourism and economic growth. In this article, we present the results of a rigorous meta-regression analysis based on 545 estimates drawn from 113 studies that empirically tested the tou ...

Are the digital and inclusive growth agendas compatible? Implications for trade policy in developing countries

31 July 2019

the questions that Wilma Viviers (WTO Chair and research professor) and Ali Parry (extraordinary research scientist) from North-West University’s TRADE research ...

LSGL Research Workshop " The recent trends in international trade: protection or protectionism? "

29 July 2019

The newly constituted International Trade and Investment Law Group (of Law Schools Global League- LSGL) presented four work-progress papers at the Research Workshop organised at University of Turin. The theme was: The recent ...

Séminaire sur les enjeux de la négociation commerciale multilatérale dans le cadre de l'OMC (du 16 au 17 avril 2019)

27 June 2019

Author(s): M. OULMANE Nassim et M. EL HACHIMI Said Yes Morocco Programme_Chaire_Rabat_April_2019.pdf Author(s): M. OULMANE Nassim et M. EL HACHIMI Said Download 16 April 2019 Trade topics: Trade Negotiations, ...

How internationalization affects firms’ growth in the MENA region? A quantile regression approach, Economics Bulletin

14 May 2019

In this paper, we contribute to the literature by studying the effect of internationalization on the conditional firm growth rate distribution in eight countries from the MENA region. We use four measures of internationalization: exporting status, two-way ...

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