Introduction / Andrew Mold and Annalisa Prizzon -- Integration and regional trade in sub-Saharan Africa / Charles Ackah, Vincent Leyaro and Oliver Morrissey -- Trade costs / Festus Ebo Turkson -- Building the infrastructure for trade : developments in trade facilitation and aid-for-trade / Esteban Ferro, John S. Wilson and Peter McConaghy -- Trade preferences : schemes and effects / Xavier Cirera and Edgar Cooke -- Trade preferences from a policy perspective / Maria Persson -- Trade and firm performance / Ricardo A. López -- Trade and child labour / Annie Voy -- Enterprise agglomeration and firm performance in sub-Saharan Africa / Eyerusalem Siba and Måns Söderbom -- Informal cross border trade and smuggling in Africa / Stephen Golub -- Integration and regional trade in sub-Saharan Africa / Festus Ebo Turkson -- Commodity prices and export performance in sub-Saharan African countries / Andrew Mold and Annalisa Prizzon -- Vertical specialization in Chinese foreign trade? / Gamini Herath and Gareth Leeves -- The rise of Brazil in global trade / Raffi Garcia and Ricardo A. López -- Export diversification dynamics in Latin America / Manuel R. Agosin and Luis David Chancí Arango -- Exchange rate volatility and exports : the case of Colombia / Ivan T. Kandilov and Asli Leblebicioğlu -- Imported technology and firm exporting : the case of Chile / Ana M. Fernandes and Ricardo A. López -- Foreign direct investment in Mexico / Andreas Waldkirch -- Global production sharing, trade patterns, and determinants of trade flows : The role of East Asia / Prema-chandra Athukorala and Jayant Menon -- Exports and FDI in China / Jing Zhang and Xufei Zhang -- Trade, growth and external shocks in Indonesia / Tulus T.H. Tambunan -- Trade, environment and the labour market in Malaysia / Gamini Herath and Gareth Leeves -- Vertical specialization in Chinese foreign trade? / Kishor Sharma and Wang Wei
Summary:
Comprehensively explores the complex relationships between trade and economic performance in developing countries, illustrating that it is not trade per se that is important but the context, at the firm, country and regional level, in which trade occurs.
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