Trade among BRICS countries: Changes towards closer cooperation?

BRICS cooperation in strategic health projects.

Editorials 388 Over the past few decades, the BRICS countries (Brazil, the Russian Federation , India, China and South Africa) have occupied a unique position in the world and in the international health community. Their growing economies have lifted hundreds of millions out of poverty. Marked improvements have also taken place in health outcomes, and substantial progress made towards achieving...

Business Cycle Synchronization and Patterns of Trade: Cases from Gulf Cooperation Council Countries

 Do similarities in trade patterns of GCC countries (UAE, KSA, Qatar, Bahrain, Kuwait, and Oman), which are geographically and politically alike and also enjoy oil income, affect the synchronization of their business cycles and make them have similar booms and busts? In this paper, we attempt to connect these two features and explore this question. Using various estimation methods (Common Corre...

Possibility of Trade Integration among Selected Islamic Countries

SERIE RESEHRCH mEntORIMDn TOWARDS A GLOBAL SYSTEM OF TRADE PREFERENCES AMONG DEVELOPING COUNTRIES

This paper studies two attempts that have been made to stimulate trade among developing countries by means of a trade-preferential system under the auspices of GATT and UNCTAD. It wil! be shown that these attempts have not been successful when measured in terms of the number of countries that have offered so-called "concessions" and the number of products for which substantial tariff cuts have ...

Towards Cooperation Among Competitive Trader Agents

In order to manage their portfolios in stock markets, i.e., to determine buy and sell signals, human traders use a set of algorithms created by economists, which are based on stock prices series. These algorithms are usually referred as technical analysis. However, traders prefer to use a combination of several algorithms as indicators, rather than choosing a single one. The several signals pro...