EU Trade Preferences and Export Diversification

Trade openness, export diversification, and political regimes

Recent studies have challenged the view that trade openness leads to more specialization in countries’ trade. Using a panel of 116 countries over 35 years, we show that openness can be positively associated with both specialization and diversification, depending on the measure used. Moreover, for developing countries in our sample, the effect of openness on trade structure depends on the type o...

Are EU non - reciprocal trade preferences passé ?

EU Enlargement: The New Member States and Agricultural Trade Potentials

The Strategy of Export Diversification and Economic Growth in

Today export diversification has become one of the most important economic objectives of development strategies in the developing countries. For various reasons, such as preventing instability in export prices of primary products in global markets, reducing fluctuations in exchanges of them compared with industrial goods, producing dynamic benefits resulted from exporting various goods and incr...

EU Enlargement: Implications for EU and Multilateral Export Controls