DO REGIONAL TRADE AREAS IMPROVE EXPORT COMPETITIVENESS? - A CASE OF INDONESIA

Export Competitiveness of Developing Countries and U.S. Trade Policy

This paper examines the impact of the revocation of tariff exemptions on exports of developing countries using data from cases of the Competitive Needs Limits (CNL), a feature of the US Generalized System of Preferences (GSP). CNLs are arguably imposed on “super competitive” GSP beneficiaries and aim to reserve the GSP benefits for other “less competitive” GSP eligible countries. The empirical ...

Do multinational retailers affect the export competitiveness of host countries ?

Localised Knowledge Spillovers and Trade Competitiveness The Case of Italy

A renewed interest has been growing recently for the spatial dimension of trade and knowledge flows. Several contributions have shown that knowledge proximity matters in mediating flows of knowledge and that knowledge spillovers tend to occur within limited geographical boundaries. Theoretical works have also shown that geographical concentration of knowledge spillovers may play a fundamental r...

ECO and Regional Trade

Economic Cooperation Organization (ECO), based on regional and multicultural cooperation, has focused on the improvement of living standards, collective as well as individual prosperity of people and economic development of member’s states. Since February 1992 ECO has been expanded to ten as the result of collapse of the Soviet Union. Of course, gas and oil are very important factors in this re...

The role of Tourism clusters on regional competitiveness ( Case study: Religious tourism cluster of Qom)

As a novel idea for discussion on the role of industrial development on regional development, the term “cluster” became noteworthy since 90’s in order to increase competitiveness. Territorial development researchers believe that formation of regional industrial clusters improves competitiveness and plays a role in promoting competitive advantages and regional development. Hence, because of the ...