South-South Trade In Goods

Przemyslaw Kowalski () and Ben Shepherd

No 40, OECD Trade Policy Papers from OECD Publishing

Abstract: The empirical analysis presented in this paper indicates that trade between developing countries (South-South trade) offers a wide scope for specialisation and efficiency gains. The first part of the paper takes an ex-post perspective and employs the gravity methodology to contribute to understanding past trends in world goods trade with a special focus on South-South trade. Analysis shows that far from experiencing a ?death of distance?, South-South trade is still severely...

Keywords: computable general equilibrium; distance; gains from trade; gravity model; south-south trade; tariff barriers (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2006-10-16
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