An important feature of the Uruguay Round was the agreement by the developed countries to abolish the Multifibre Arrangement quotas that (with their predecessors) have restricted exports of textile and clothing products from developing countries for almost forty years. This iniq…
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Scope and method of study. The goal of this study is to investigate the roles of market structure and human capital in developing countries' (DC's) ability to expand exports of processed agricultural goods. The study provides three separate theoretical and empirical analyses bas…
The objective of this study is to examine the factors affecting live cattle basis and determine the impact meat exports and imports have on the wholesale prices of different meat types. Changes in farm programs and tightening cattle feeding margins make risk management an import…
The Trade Related Property Rights (TRIPS) agreement which seeks to harmonize global intellectual property laws has been a major factor in strengthening worldwide property rights systems. However, since its formulation, the TRIPS agreement has been the subject of considerable con…
The textile industry has been a major contributor to industrialisation in many countries. Therefore the performance of firms in this subsector may be greatly linked to the growth of the subsector and subsequently act as a driver of economic growth, among other factors. Also, fir…
Primary agriculture and agribusiness are considered vital to the economies of Sub Saharan Africa (SSA) countries. However, contribution of Africa's agricultural exports to world trade is less than 15% which is limited, given Africa's vast amount of arable land and resources. The…
Gelişmekte olan ülkelerin sanayi alanında ilerleme çabaları ve hamleleri beraberinde enerjiye duyulan ihtiyacı da arttırmaktadır. Teknoloji alanındaki ilerleme ve refah seviyesinin yükselmesi ile birlikte, bireysel enerji tüketimi yıllar içerisinde düzenli bir artış göstermiştir…
This thesis seeks to address the impact of China and India's economic emergence on Bangladesh through international trade. This phenomenon has further implications for Bangladesh due to the recent phasing-out of the Multi-Fibre Arrangement (MFA) and the importance of the textile…
The purpose of this thesis is to check for “Dutch Disease” in the Saudi Arabian economy over the period 1980–2001. Dutch Disease is the result of an exogenous increase in the price of that country's natural resource. Accordingly, a resource boom causes the output in the non-boom…
The first chapter of this thesis provides empirical evidence on the role of fundamentalists and technicians in determining the movement of the exchange rate for a currency which is pegged to a basket of currencies. This paper uses a new data set and a new fundamental variable. T…
The purpose of this study is to investigate the main determinants of inflation in the developing oil-export based economies and to see if the main determinants of inflation are similar to other developing and developed economies. This study attempted to include all six Gulf Coop…
This dissertation first examines the performance of Turkey's apparel, textile, and motor vehicle and parts industries using plant-level data from 1987-1997. The interesting results include the significant impact of foreign ownership, technology purchase, subcontracting, location…
Between 1979 and 1999, total Turkish exports rose from US757 million to US35 billion (Foreign Trade Statistics 1996 ). This "export boom" (Barlow and Senses 1995) has been recognized as an economic "success story" (Pomfret 1990). The Turkish clothing industry played a key role i…
