Attempts are made to provide a theoretical justification for using the gravity model in the analysis of bilateral trade and apply the generalized gravity model to analyse the Bangladesh’s trade with its major trading partners using the panel data estimation technique. We have estimated the gravity model of trade (sum of exports and imports), the gravity model of export and the gravity model of ...

Melitz and Ottaviano’s (2008) firm-heterogeneity model predicts that trade liberalization induces a selection process from low to high productivity firms, which translates to an industry productivity growth. A similar firms’ selection effect is induced by market size. In this paper, these predictions are tested across 25 European countries and 9 food industries, over the 1995–2008 period. Using...

Bangladesh suffers from a chronic deficit in her trade balance. The paper is an attempt to explore the imports of Bangladesh which is one of the most significant factors responsible for unfavorable trade balance of the country. The aim of the study is to intend some initiatives for an attempt to ultimately reshaping the trade balance of Bangladesh with her foreign trade partners. The paper exam...

Evasion of custom duties is a serious concern in developing countries, where tariff receipts are often important while their collection is problematic. We study theoretically and empirically the determinants of evasion across countries and products, based on a systematic analysis of discrepancies in trade declarations when they are available for both partners. We conclude that evasion of custom...

workers’ remittances constitute one of the most important sources of external finance for many developing countries. although it shows a decreasing trend in recent years, egypt after 1970s with her regular and massive labor migration to abroad has been still one of the gainer countries on remittances across the world. empirical studies that implemented for various countries reveal workers’ remi...

MUCH attention has been devoted to the study of the structure of tariffs in industrial nations and its impacts on the level and composition of their imports from developing countries. Studies have identified two sources of bias against imports from developing countries inherent in tariff structures of industrial nations. First, tariffs used by industrial nations have been found to bear more hea...

The Nigerian rice sector has made remarkable improvement in the last decade as production has increased significantly thereby reducing the gap between domestic supply and demand. In the last three decades, rice imports make up greater proportion of Nigerian imports as rice forms a structural component of the Nigerian diet. Past government inconsistent policies were not successful in securing go...

During the 1980s, the European Union, the US, and Japan followed policies designed to limit the production of grain. In so doing, the production and stock of grain declined during the decade in developed countries. However, grain production increased in developing countries during the 1980s, causing the overall world supply of grain to grow faster than demand. International market prices for...