World Trade Evolution : : Growth, Productivity and Employment.

• Superior document: Routledge-ERIA studies in development economics
• Author: Ing, Lili Yan.
• TeilnehmendeR: Yu, Miaojie.
• Year of Publication: 2018
• Language: English
• Series: Routledge-ERIA studies in development economics.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (503 pages).

The book provides theoretical and empirical evidence on how world trade evolves, how trade affects resource allocation, how trade competition affects productivity, how China shock affects world trade and how trade affects large and small countries. It is a useful reference which focuses on new approaches to international trade by looking into country-specific as well as firm-product level-specific cases.

Table of Contents

Cover; Half Title; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction; 2 National sovereignty in an interdependent world; 3 Trade competition and reallocations in a small open economy; 4 Trade in goods and trade in services; 5 On the measurement of upstreamness and downstreamness in global value chains; 6 Understanding regional export growth in China; 7 Estimating productivity using Chinese data: methods, challenges and results; 8 The evolution of export quality: China and Indonesia

9 Exporting and organizational change10 Firm-to-firm connections in Colombian imports; 11 Chinese import exposure and U.S. occupational employment; 12 The 'China shock' in trade: consequences for ASEAN and East Asia; 13 Modern spatial economics: a primer; Index